The Perfect Holiday

...a very busy holiday comedy, where plot points circle and land on an overcrowded schedule. Once I saw what was happening, I started to enjoy it.

Whitmore II's smooth holiday melodrama revolves around an upper-middle-class African-American family that gathers for Christmas with plenty of emotional baggage in tow.

...Preston A. Whitmore II's film is best when it focuses on the spirituality of saying pre-meal grace and the ensuing, chatter-filled feasts...

l'll say it: Black family melodramas are today’s Shakespearean comedies.

It lets its people act like people instead of bland, generic types. They're allowed to be sarcastic, smart, self-deprecating, sexual and sappy.