White Christmas
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: October 14, 1954 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 17 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
10
Negative:
0
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60
Time OutStaff (Not Credited)
It’s as sickly-sweet as an eggnog tsunami, but Bing’s brandy-butter baritone and Kaye’s incessant, proto-Jim Carrey clowning always manage to raise a smile. Read full review
60
Total FilmStaff (Not Credited)
This was the Mamma Mia! of its day, a nostalgic blast of popular Irving Berlin showtunes gift-wrapped in new-fangled VistaVision that danced its way to the top of the 1954 box office. Read full review
60
EmpireDavid Parkinson
Great songs, gentle humour and a dose of syrup which is not to everyone's tastes, but worth buying to keep that Christmas spirit going until next year. Read full review
60
The Observer (UK)Philip French
It's creaky sentimental stuff, redolent of the Eisenhower era, but the songs are (mostly) excellent, and Vera-Ellen and Rosemary Clooney are delightful. [14 Dec 2008, p.17]
50
The New York TimesBosley Crowther
Everyone works hard at the business of singing, dancing and cracking jokes, but the stuff that they work with is minor. Read full review
50
TimeStaff (Not Credited)
A big fat yam of a picture richly candied with VistaVision (Paramount's answer to CinemaScope), Technicolor, tunes by Irving Berlin, massive production numbers, and big stars. Unfortunately, the yam is still a yam. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleKimberley Jones
White Christmas endures – despite not being a very good movie. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderDave Kehr
The whole thing is rather forced and antiseptically cheerful. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
Sixty-seven minutes in, I looked up and noticed the movie had 53 minutes left to go, even though every plot element had been resolved. And that's precisely where the movie went to hell. [23 Nov 2014, p.M21]
40
Los Angeles TimesMark Chalon Smith
The draggiest of the Crosby holiday vehicles. Even the usually manic Danny Kaye is reduced to a kind of nagging Man Friday. There are some good tunes, though (Berlin was in on this one, too). [19 Dec 1991, p.12]
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