High On Films’s review published on Letterboxd:
Among the annual flurry of Christmas comedies, Reginald Hudlin’s Candy Cane Lane (2023) on Amazon Prime Video is a decent mindless entertainment. Starring Eddie Murphy, the film is mildly funny as well as exasperating cliched. But considering the indistinguishable slog fests and cash-ins that make up the festive season movie catalog nowadays, Candy Cane Lane might make us say, “You could do a lot worse.” In this second of the three-film deal Murphy has signed with Amazon (the first one was the mediocre Coming 2 America), the actor plays a middle-aged, middle-class father. He unwittingly seals a deal with an evil elf, bringing dire consequences to his family.