You could do worse this Christmas than “This Christmas.”
As holiday-themed movies about dysfunctional family go, you can’t expect much more than for the requisite corniness to be kept to a minimum and for the cast to be genuinely likable. Such is the case here with director-screenwriter-producer Preston A. Whitmore II’s laid-back, jovial dramedy. In it, an upper-middle-class African-American clan gathers in Los Angeles to celebrate the birth of its Savior and — eventually, after resolving much conflict — a renewed unity.
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