Editing Bad Santa (section)

===Critical response===
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On [[Rotten Tomatoes]], ''Bad Santa'' has {{a or an|{{RT data|score}}}} rating, based on {{RT data|count}} reviews, with an average rating of {{RT data|average}}. The site's critics consensus reads: "A gloriously rude and gleefully offensive comedy, ''Bad Santa'' isn't for everyone, but grinches will find it uproariously funny."<ref>{{Cite Rotten Tomatoes|id=bad_santa|title=Bad Santa|type=m|access-date={{RT data|access date}}}}{{RT data|edit}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], the film has a score of 70 out of 100, based on 38 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.<ref>{{Cite Metacritic |id=bad-santa |title=Bad Santa |access-date=April 14, 2022 |type=m}}</ref> Audiences polled by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film a "B" grade on an A+ to F scale.<ref name="CinemaScore">{{cite web |url=https://www.cinemascore.com/ |title=CinemaScore |publisher=[[CinemaScore]] |access-date=April 14, 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220413083139/https://www.cinemascore.com/ |archive-date=April 13, 2022 |url-status=live }}</ref>

An editorial in ''[[The Washington Times]]'' likened the movie to an "evil twin" of ''[[Miracle on 34th Street]]'' and chided [[The Walt Disney Company]] for allowing such a beloved figure as Santa Claus to be trashed by [[Miramax|Miramax Films]], then a Disney subsidiary.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20031120-075904-1339r.htm | title = Bad Disney | work = The Washington Times | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20050501054447/http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20031120-075904-1339r.htm | archive-date=2005-05-01 }}</ref>

[[Roger Ebert]] of the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' gave the film {{frac|3|1|2}} stars out of four, writing how ''Bad Santa'' was a "demented, twisted [and] unreasonably funny work of comic kamikaze style".<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ebert|first=Roger|title=Bad Santa movie review & film summary (2003) {{!}} Roger Ebert|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/bad-santa-2003|access-date=2022-01-19|website=www.rogerebert.com/|language=en|archive-date=2022-03-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220310015703/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/bad-santa-2003|url-status=live}}</ref>