Rotten
One of those unpleasant fiascoes meant to lodge a lump in the throat at Christmas, but it only ends up making you want to bludgeon the elves with their own toy-shop hammers.
Rex Reed, New York Observer
Noel
Miracles are closer than you think
2004 · 1h 36m · PG
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Chazz Palminteri
Overview
Christmas Eve in New York, and the lonely divorced publisher, Rose Collins, needs a miracle to improve the health of her mother, interned in a hospital with Alzheimers. She feels sorry for another patient and meets his visitor. Meanwhile, Nina Vasquez breaks her engagement with her beloved fiancé Mike due to his suffocating jealousy, but misses him. Mike is stalked by a stranger, bartender Artie Venzuela. The poor Jules arranges to spend Christmas Eve in the hospital, where he spent the best Christmas of his life when he was a teenager. The lives of some of these characters cross with others along the night.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
29%
Tomatometer
Rotten
The nut-ball factor is just too high for these characters.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Rotten
The kind of sappy, sadness-turns- to-gladness holiday movie that shows up on cable TV this time of year.
Bob Longino, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Rotten
The mawkishness meter is turned up full blast by the time Williams, wearing the hangdog expression he saves for maudlin dramas, shows up out of nowhere as a former priest to save an unhappy Sarandon from jumping into the East River.
Robert Dominguez, New York Daily News
Rotten
Except for die-hard students of extremely bad movies, Noel isn't worth seeing.
Lou Lumenick, New York Post
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