Ben Stiller's new Christmas comedy, Nutcrackers, is streaming on Hulu, and although the movie follows some familiar holiday movie patterns, it avoids feeling unoriginal for a few key reasons.

But he wasn't." Linda Cardellini plays a foster-care social worker whose infectious love for her job affects curmudgeonly Michael (Ben Stiller) in the Hulu holiday movie "Nutcrackers." Stiller was ...