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Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...original, daring, carefully crafted... In its tone, acting, location work, music and inexorably mounting suspense, this is an exemplary horror film..." (Read the full review...) 574 words, 12/23/10
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: VERY GOOD "Kids will love the diminutive, motherless hero and a plot that's completely bonkers; adults will enjoy the exuberantly pagan images and deadpan humor." (Read the full review...) 353 words, 12/03/10 Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times: VERY GOOD "...a strange alloy of daredevil helicopter maneuvers and night of the living elves.... likely to become a winter favorite for those allergic to holiday treacle." (Read the full review...) 256 words, 12/10/10 V.A. Musetto, New York Post: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...for grown-ups looking for an alternative to the annual onslaught of ho-ho-ho Christmas tales, the visually pleasing oddity is just the thing..." (Read the full review...) 239 words, 12/03/10 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...original, daring, carefully crafted... In its tone, acting, location work, music and inexorably mounting suspense, this is an exemplary horror film..." (Read the full review...) 574 words, 12/23/10 Mark Olsen, Village Voice/LA Weekly: EXCELLENT "...likely the best anti-Christmas Christmas movie since 'Bad Santa.' " (Read the full review...) 240 words, 12/01/10 Jason Anderson, Toronto Star: VERY GOOD (cg) "...the strangest holiday movie you may see this December.... More of a comedic fantasy flick than a seasonally themed tale of horror..." (Read the full review...) 339 words, 12/17/10 Jennie Punter, Toronto Globe & Mail: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a playfully dark tale with just the kind of cynical twinkle so many need during this season of maudlin, heart-warming movies." (Read the full review...) 443 words, 12/17/10 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...launches into a flood of batshit-crazy Christmas imagery that'll make you think someone's spiked your eggnog with mescaline." (Read the full review...) 232 words, 12/16/10
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a smart, handsome film, with solid performances all around.... that rarest of gifts: The kind that surprises, and in a good way." (Read the full review...) 557 words, 12/22/10 Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: VERY GOOD (cg) "...explores the dark side of the Santa Claus myth - if myth he is - and finds humor, and horror, lurking there." (Read the full review...) 255 words, 12/22/10 Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: VERY GOOD (cg) "...the dark days and darker nights of this bleak land of farmers who do their own butchering is an ideal setting for a horror riff on the Christmas myth." (Read the full review...) 391 words, 12/24/10 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: VERY GOOD (cg) "...bracingly suspenseful, packed with perverse humor and great to look at, with an icebound, rundown production design reminiscent of John Carpenter's 'The Thing.' " (Read the full review...) 210 words, 12/10/10 Tom Russo, Boston Globe: MODERATE (cg) "...yuletide weirdness... Finnish filmmaker Jalmari Helander's dark-comic expansion on his cult Internet shorts, in which he crafts a back story for Santa that's as black as stocking coal." (Read the full review...) 478 words, 12/22/10 Walter Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: VERY GOOD (cg) "...plenty of amusing and chilling details.... you may be surprised to learn that it doesn't come off as a dig at Christmas - it's dark fun, in the spirit of 'Gremlins.' " (Read the full review...) 348 words, 12/17/10 Ted Fry, Seattle Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "If you see only one fiendishly bizarre Finnish film about an evil Santa Claus and his naked band of marauding elves this holiday season, make it 'Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale.' " (Read the full review...) 406 words, 12/10/10 Stan Hall, Portland Oregonian: GOOD (cg) "Despite some regrettably fake-looking CGI, this is a strange, tradition-busting Christmas movie with plenty of heart, good humor and salty language." (Read the full review...) 132 words, 12/10/10
Mark Olsen, Village Voice/LA Weekly: EXCELLENT "...likely the best anti-Christmas Christmas movie since 'Bad Santa.' " (Read the full review...) 240 words, 12/01/10 S.I. Rosenbaum, Boston Phoenix: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Could it be: a non-campy holiday-themed horror film?" (Read the full review...) 160 words, 12/23/10 Noel Murray, AV Club: VERY GOOD (cg) "...it's hard not to like a movie in which a little kid who's so skittish that he totes around a protective stuffed animal suddenly stares down the grown-ups, cocks a gun, and snarls, 'It's either me or Santa. I suggest Santa.' " (Read the full review...) 345 words, 12/02/10 Nick Schager, Slant: VERY GOOD (cg) "...maintains its measure of unease and, in doing so, also functions as a playful ode to the underlying creepiness of jolly Christmas cheer." (Read the full review...) 618 words, 11/28/10 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...launches into a flood of batshit-crazy Christmas imagery that'll make you think someone's spiked your eggnog with mescaline." (Read the full review...) 232 words, 12/16/10 MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...wonderfully bizarre... You simply need to see it to believe that anyone would conceive of such an outlandishly demented Christmas fantasy." (Read the full review...) 296 words, 12/15/10
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: VERY GOOD "Kids will love the diminutive, motherless hero and a plot that's completely bonkers; adults will enjoy the exuberantly pagan images and deadpan humor." (Read the full review...) 353 words, 12/03/10 Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times: VERY GOOD "...a strange alloy of daredevil helicopter maneuvers and night of the living elves.... likely to become a winter favorite for those allergic to holiday treacle." (Read the full review...) 256 words, 12/10/10
Jay Weissberg, Daily Variety: EXCELLENT "...deliciously winning... Conceived with winking humor and a terrific visual style, the pic is a rare treat... Writer/director Jalmari Helander channels a Steven Spielberg/Tobe Hooper vibe..." (Read the full review...) 638 words, 08/13/10 Michael Rechtshaffen, Hollywood Reporter: EXCELLENT "A darkly mischievous, bracingly original and thoroughly captivating Yuletide import." (Read the full review...) 485 words, 12/10/10 Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times: VERY GOOD "...a strange alloy of daredevil helicopter maneuvers and night of the living elves.... likely to become a winter favorite for those allergic to holiday treacle." (Read the full review...) 256 words, 12/10/10 Michael T. Dennis, Cinema 24/7: VERY GOOD (cg) "...shockingly effective... gets its thrills the old-fashioned way: earning them by building tension and giving us likeable characters to pin our hopes for survival on." (Read the full review...) 810 words, 12/06/10 Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: VERY GOOD "Kids will love the diminutive, motherless hero and a plot that's completely bonkers; adults will enjoy the exuberantly pagan images and deadpan humor." (Read the full review...) 353 words, 12/03/10
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