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ninja422

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this is the best christmas movie ever! i will watch this movie even when it isnt christmas time

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Posted dec 7, 2008 7:14 am pt

AmyR999

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This is my favorite movie to watch every year during the holidays. My mom, and the rest of my family all love the movie alot too. All day on Christmas, we keep it on the marathon all day. This is the best Christmas movie out there. The holidays...
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This is my favorite movie to watch every year during the holidays. My mom, and the rest of my family all love the movie alot too. All day on Christmas, we keep it on the marathon all day. This is the best Christmas movie out there. The holidays are a time of the year for the family to relax and get together. Enjoying this movie together is something I suggest for families to do during the holidays.

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Posted apr 2, 2007 7:06 am pt

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It's the all-time Christmas classic, after It's a Wonderful Life. Everybody has scene this film at least once, there are so many classic and memorable scenes from the movie. I couldn't possibly imagine anybody, who doesn't like this movie, it's...
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It's the all-time Christmas classic, after It's a Wonderful Life. Everybody has scene this film at least once, there are so many classic and memorable scenes from the movie. I couldn't possibly imagine anybody, who doesn't like this movie, it's just unthinkable. Great film, a classic. 10/10.

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Posted feb 22, 2007 4:11 pm pt

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A Christmas Story is perfect. It's hilarious, and I watch it every year... and sometimes I watch it in the summer too, just because it's so funny. The story is taken from the writings of Jean Shepherd (I may have spelled that wrong) and I've...
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A Christmas Story is perfect. It's hilarious, and I watch it every year... and sometimes I watch it in the summer too, just because it's so funny. The story is taken from the writings of Jean Shepherd (I may have spelled that wrong) and I've read his books; the story here in the movie doesn't quite exist in his books, but is pieced together from other stories that he's written.

This doesn't really matter... what matters is that this movie takes the viewer back to a more innocent time, to the boyhood of Ralphie, who wants a Red Rider BB Gun. His little fantasy sequences are fantastic, and the "Leg Lamp" is one of the highlights of the movie. There's just so much in this movie that's funny, it's impossible to list it all.

I find it hard to believe that anyone hasn't seen this movie, what with the 24-hour marathons that go on every year, but if you haven't seen it, you should! You'll love it instantly!

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Posted dec 13, 2006 1:54 pm pt

• [+] The Onion (A.V. Club)
  
  100
  The affection audiences feel for A Christmas Story is related to the holiday spirit, yes, but specifically to Clark and Shepherd's awareness of how the true meaning of Christmas manifests in the real world, where a warm meal on a cold, dark day--and a surprising moment of parental grace--can ease a troubled mind.

  by Noel Murray | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
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  The cast is wonderful--especially McGavin, Billingsley and Petrella--the laughs are nonstop if rarely subtle, and the whole thing deserves to become a Christmastime classic.

  by Staff (Not Credited) | Read Full Review »
• [+] Boston Globe
  
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  In short, A Christmas Story isn't just about Christmas; it's about childhood and it recaptures a time and place with love and wonder. It seems an instant classic, a film that will give pleasure to people not only this Christmas, but for many Christmases to come. [19 Nov 1983, p.1]

  by Jay Carr | Read Full Review »
• [+] ReelViews
  
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  It's those moments and others and the way they are tied together by Shepherd's tongue-in-cheek narration that cements A Christmas Story as one of those rare must-see holiday movies, even for those who don't celebrate Christmas.

  by James Berardinelli | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
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  It is pitch-perfect, telling the story through the enthusiastic and single-minded vision of its hero Ralphie, and finding in young Peter Billingsley a sly combination of innocence and calculation.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
  60
  Though Mr. Billingsley, Mr. Gavin, Miss Dillon and the actress who plays Ralphie's school teacher are all very able, they are less funny than actors in a television situation comedy that one has chosen to watch with the sound turned off.

  by Vincent Canby | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
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  Director Bob Clark teamed with nostalgic humorist Jean Shepherd for this squeaky clean and often quite funny 1983 yuletide comedy, adapted from Shepherd's novel In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash.

  by J.R. Jones | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  
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  Needless to say, what's refreshing about A Christmas Story is subversive to the sepia-toned and loving references to the forties which director Bob Clark has provided for the film. The fictional Parker family that Shepherd has written about for 20 years is not as gentle or gauzy as they first appear. It's possible to imagine them so preoccupied with their own problems, whether dealing with the neighbor's dogs or winning a mail- order contest, that they could forget Christmas altogether. [25 Nov 1983, p.E5]

  by Stephen Godfrey | Read Full Review »