Review of National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) by Harper Barnes for St. Louis Post-Dispatch — 11 May 2017
The movie is curious in how close it comes to delivering on its material: Sequence after sequence seems to contain all the necessary material, to be well on the way toward a payoff, and then it somehow doesn't work.
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This review of National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) was written by Harper Barnes and published by St. Louis Post-Dispatch on 11 May 2017.
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation has generally received positive reviews.
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