Rating: 🎄🎄🎄🎄
Premiere Date: December 6, 2025
Description: Falling on Santa’s Naughty or Nice list used to be a call made by Santa and his elves. But with the number of kids worldwide skyrocketing, Santa has outsourced the job to the Naughty or Nice Group, a consulting firm that has cornered the market on determining a child’s niceness thanks to an airtight formula. As a top inspector with the group, it’s Isabel’s (Chabert) job to make the tough calls, by assessing the children on her list and assigning a verdict. When she is tasked with evaluating a mischievous 11-year-old Charlie Duncan, she expects a routine case. But things get complicated when Isabel unexpectedly falls for Charlie’s widowed father, Jason (Walker), and begins to question the rigid rules of her job. As Christmas approaches, Isabel must choose between following the holiday algorithm or following her heart. Starring Lacey Chabert and Andrew Walker.
Overall: I’m still undecided on the plot of this one, but I’m going to go ahead and give it the benefit of the doubt and put it at four trees. Chabert and Walker are Hallmark heavy hitters, so there’s no problem with the acting. The decorations are Hallmark standard as well, so no issues there. What has me hesitating is that this is one of those movies that blurs reality and fantasy just enough to be confusing. It’s a fun movie and along the lines of what Chabert has been giving for Christmas lately.
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