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(1 - 20) of 20 OFCS Rating: 40% Rotten Page   1   2.5/5 "just like the gifts one gets every year, Nothing Like the Holidays is a hit-and-miss entertainment experience."   Filmcritic.com   Bill Gibron C+ "It just wouldn't be Christmas if there wasn't a group of actors pushed into a room together with thin characterization, forced to fight for limited screentime."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf C+ "A sentimental, warm-hearted and tell-all dysfunctional Puerto Rican family holiday pic."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 2/4 "Nothing Like the Holidays is more dramatic than rompish, and lacks the seasonal spirit and musical chestnuts one expects from this kind of film. At least there's snow and ice."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman B- "It's a warm, friendly movie, and infinitely more human than, say, Four Christmases. It deserves credit for that."   Cinematical   Eric D. Snider B- "Though the picture follows a well-worn path, it does so with a winning degree of warmth and humor."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/5 "Vividly conveys the happiness and the heartbreak of a Puerto Rican family gathered together to celebrate Christmas."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 2.5/4 "Like fruitcake, movies like this are ubiquitous at this time of the year but rarely are they devoured with great relish or enthusiasm."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli "Parental Content Review"   Screen It!   Jim Judy "The recipe for an entertaining celluloid Christmas is followed to the letter in 'Nothing Like the Holidays.'"   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   John P. McCarthy 2/5 "mesa stin amerikanila tis, skoyrainei poly ta pragmata prin ta afisei na paroyn tin poreia toys pros to aisiodokso ksempoyrdoykloma toy koybarioy tis"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis 2.5/5 "It borrows storylines from many different films, and not just the holiday ones."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr B- "I'd rather watching "Nothing Like the Holidays" every holiday season than ever watch "Four Christmases" again."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford "Surely the concept of 'family' is one of the laziest bits of shorthand Hollywood films use..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 3/4 "The spirited, superb ensemble assembled by director Alfredo DeVilla lends the familiar proceedings pep and personality."   TheMovieReport.com   Michael Dequina B- "The stars quickly create an authentic sense of the rhythms and short-cuts of family communication."   Beliefnet   Nell Minow 2/4 "Nothing Like the Holidays may be less repulsive than The Family Stone, but that's simply because it wields its strikingly similar story with slightly more subtlety."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 3/5 " The efforts of the game and likable cast at least serve to make it slightly more tolerable than most takes on this particular subgenre"   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 6/10 "...the best scenes, which are concerned more with the ordinary interactions of families and neighbors than with pushing the plot forward, feel as natural as real life."   Playback:stl   Sarah Boslaugh C+ "... beneath the cultural color and Spanish exclamations, the dilemmas and conflicts that swirl around the family gatherings are just like the holidays in every such movie."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker  (1 - 20) of 20 OFCS Rating: 40% Rotten Page   1