Netflix is expanding its selection of festive movies as December draws closer. The most recent release on the platform is an original movie titled “Best Christmas Ever”! Mary Lambert, who has directed movies including Siesta and Pet Sematary Two, is directing this one. On November 16, the movie starring Heather Graham was made available on the massive streaming platform. Ever since, it has held the top spot on Netflix’s compilation of the best movies to watch. Although the movie topped the charts, both reviewers and viewers did not think highly of it.
About Best. Christmas. Ever!
The official synopsis reads, “Every year at Christmas, Jackie sends a cocky newsletter to her friend Charlotte. Fate brings Charlotte to Jackie’s doorstep. As a result, Charlotte tries to prove that her friend’s life is not perfect.”
The cast also includes Brandy Norwood, Jason Biggs, Matt Cedeno, Camille Cadarette, Nadia Sine, Wyatt Hunt, Abby Villasmil, and Madison Skye Validum in addition to the Hangover actress.
Critics degraded the latest release by Netflix
Critics have labeled Best Christmas Ever! as the “worst” holiday movie of the year. It has a poor rating of 4.4 out of 10 on IMDb and 38% on Rotten Tomatoes. “Hardly even a movie, more one long montage of bits that never run on long enough to be defined as scenes,” is how prominent Rotten Tomatoes critic Benjamin Lee describes Best Christmas Ever!
Lee continued, “It’s a premise that suggests something as salty as it is sweet but the film, directed by Pet Sematary’s Mary Lambert, is as wet as a pile of melting snow, refusing to indulge in any fun cattiness, transforming the pitch for a dark comedy into a sickly family movie, overstuffed with inane life lessons and cloying kids.”
Audiences terms it the ‘worst Christmas film ever’
A fan wrote on X, formerly Twitter, “#BESTCHRISTMASEVER is probably my the worst Christmas movie I’ve seen in a long time…” Another wrote, “The best Christmas ever is THE WORST movie I’ve ever watched. I have no idea of how it’s number 2 on Netflix lol.”
