‘A Bad Moms Christmas’ Is a ‘Poorly Gift-Wrapped Pinterest Fail of a Movie,’ and 8 Other Joyless Reviews

“The holiday season has barely started and already we have our first lump of coal,” writes one critic

A Bad Moms Christmas
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The three “Bad Moms” are back in “A Bad Moms Christmas,” just 16 months after the original film  hit theaters — and critics are panning the “rush job” production, saying it misses more than it hits.

“The Xmas edition of ‘Bad Moms’ is OK if not laugh-out-loud, culminating in a grind-and-twerk foursome with a mall Santa,” TheWrap’s film critic Robert Abele wrote in his review. “Ho ho ho-hum. But then the slo-mo gets trotted out again for a dodgeball free-for-all featuring all the families at a Sky Zone trampoline center, and it sinks in just how threadbare the movie is with its mix-and-match family dysfunction comedy.”

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