Holiday Weekend Movie Forecast: Milk, Four Christmases

Vince Vaughn. Reese Witherspoon. Four Christmases. Zero reasons to see it. In this one the two hacktors play a couple committed to seeing all four divorced parents on December 25th. Joe Leydon at the Houston Chronicle quips: "Ho, ho, ho? No, no, no." And Robert Wilonsky at the Voice writes, "The pace here is lethargic; the movie desperately needs a laugh track. Only, the joke's terrible to begin with. There is, of course, the slightest chance that Four Christmases wasn't intended as a comedy; it's so irritating at times—the people, the screeching, the way everything looks washed out in a made-in-the-early-'80s way—that maybe Gordon was going for ironic, grim, and sad."