The Christmas Chronicles

"With its saccharine score, saturated cinematography, and trite platitudes, the film is formulaic and forgettable except for Kurt Russell's performance as the lovable legend."

"This festive family adventure for Netflix leaves you with a hyperglycaemic glow, and that's mainly down to Kurt Russell as the most likeable Santa Claus in years."

"Between the atrocious green-screen work, the blatant stock footage helicopter shots of city skylines and painfully obvious Toronto-for-America locations, you would be forgiven for thinking this movie was made in 1992."

"[A] thoroughly enjoyable confection."

"It's of a higher quality than most TV movies or direct-to-video films, but doesn't quite rise to the level of a theatre-released work."

"Russell, he of the shaggy mane and those twinkly, crinkly eyes, digs into the classic role with a sleighful of energy, humour and gusto, deftly making the character his own with guidance from Matt Lieberman's inventive, myth-bending script."

"It's as predictable as an Advent calendar, but thanks to Kurt Russell's grizzly charms, The Christmas Chronicles at least gives us one of the movies' best Santas yet."