‘Bad Santa 2’ Is Too Pointless For A Clever Headline

Bad Santa 2Directed by Mark WatersOpens November 23
Bad Santa materialized like a toxic wind this time of year in 2003, but its genuine transgressiveness and nihilism were medicinal. This was before the Bad/Dirty boom, when it still felt kind of shocking to see an antihero alcoholic racist in a Santa Claus suit having sex with prostitutes in a major motion picture. It helped that it was helmed by something of an arthouse hero in Terry Zwigoff, whose slim and singular filmography includes Crumb