If I’d been asked — without watching either The Santa Clause or The Christmas Chronicles — whether Tim Allen or Kurt Russell would make a better Santa, I’d have definitely guessed wrong.
The Christmas Chronicles (2018, Netflix) is glossy, shiny, soulless, cynical, sarcastic, and totally lacking in kindness or Christmas spirit. It has the meanest Santa I think I’ve ever seen.
I watched a LOT of mediocre Christmas movies last year, but this one is actually bad.