Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas
Lionsgate | Release Date: December 13, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
28
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 20 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
6
Negative:
12
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
67
Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanDec 13, 2013
Madea is still a witty character, but the gutter wisdom of her tossed-off verbal hand grenades can’t shock us anymore; even the outtakes that play through the closing credits feel like reruns. Read full review
65
Film.comLaremy LegelDec 13, 2013
One terrible sub-plot away from being a legitimately good movie. Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicKerry LengelDec 17, 2013
A Madea Christmas, for all its narrative shortcomings, also has plenty of laughs. Read full review
50
Village VoiceAmy NicholsonDec 16, 2013
The funniest Madea film in a fair stretch... It's also, of course, not good by any definition. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyDec 13, 2013
By the standards of Tyler Perry’s Madea series, A Madea Christmas is better than average. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleLouis BlackDec 18, 2013
Rather than rising above the fray, Madea is very much the fray itself. Read full review
40
The New York TimesNicolas RapoldDec 13, 2013
With a character who can essentially say and do whatever she wants, you might expect a bit more. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierDec 13, 2013
Comedy characters change and grow. Sometimes, as we see in Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas, they become so much like old relatives that their edge is gone. Read full review
38
Philadelphia InquirerTirdad DerakhshaniDec 16, 2013
Slapdash, with dialogue and plot points that were cliches in Dickens' era, the pic sends up, then reaffirms, all the values the media sell us each holiday: compassion, forgiveness, tolerance. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyDec 16, 2013
When Madea is onscreen, at least you know what universe you are in, and there is something interesting and insane to watch. Otherwise, you are thrust into an abyss of meaninglessness and plot-heavy maneuvering overlaid with Christian propaganda that wears out its welcome with the first line of exposition. Read full review
38
Boston GlobePeter KeoughDec 16, 2013
It’s a Christmas nightmare, stuck with two obnoxious relatives who think they’re funny, and won’t shut up. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesMark OlsenDec 13, 2013
Perry can now knock these films out in his sleep, and with “Madea Christmas” he certainly seems to be dozing at the wheel. Read full review
30
VarietyAndrew BarkerDec 13, 2013
An exceptionally poor piece of holiday cash-in product, rushed and ungainly even by the low standard set by Perry's seven previous Madea films, yet it should be every bit as profitable. Read full review
25
Washington PostSean O’ConnellDec 13, 2013
An insensitive, unfunny cringer from the entrepreneurial writer-director that should have come with a gift receipt. Read full review
25
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreDec 13, 2013
A lump of cinematic coal Perry’s shoving into America’s stockings this holiday season. Read full review
20
Time OutMatt PatchesDec 13, 2013
The film is a string of dawdling sitcom scenarios and saccharine messages, cobbled together with star wipes pulled straight out of a Walmart commercial. Read full review
20
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckDec 13, 2013
The clunky narrative doesn’t ring true for a second, and the hackneyed dialogue is even worse. Read full review
10
TimeRichard CorlissDec 16, 2013
This eighth Madea movie is pretty lame even by Perry’s slapdash standards. Read full review
10
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriDec 13, 2013
I don’t know, maybe it worked as theater. Onscreen, it’s torture. Read full review
0
The DissolveNathan RabinDec 13, 2013
A Madea Christmas belongs to a rancid strain of Yuletide trifles that feature awful people being terrible to each other for 90 minutes under the sway of insulting plot contrivances before the awfulness is climactically washed away in an avalanche of holiday sentimentality. Read full review
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