The Night Before sometimes strains to be bad-some of the lesser gags deploy dick picks and the ever-grinning James Franco-the movie scores when it savors its fully-baked camaraderie
a score chockablock with holiday standards, and visuals awash in warm, twinkling lights, that cast a simultaneously vulgar, heady and heartfelt seasonal spell
by Stephen Whitty [Newark Star-Ledger ]
