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The Holiday is expertly crafted wish fulfillment of the highest level, exhibiting the very best of what can be gleaned from such an unabashedly feel-good genre.
Home Alone 2 does offer holiday charm, cheekiness, and sass that makes you love your family even when you wish you never belonged with them on Christmas Eve.
The charisma of Macaulay Culkin matched with the intelligent script by John Hughes makes Home Alone the definitive holiday story that it is, appealing to all ages.
Anna and the Apocalypse is a roller-coaster of inspired madness, great music, and surprising emotional weight.
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation isn’t the finest Xmas movie you’ll ever see, but it’s disarmingly heartfelt at times.
Yes, It’s a Wonderful Life is wholeheartedly a festive classic of the highest order, but it is, more importantly, a lesson that teaches us true richness cannot be determined by wealth.
Elliot the Littlest Reindeer may distract a two year old for a couple of hours, but it’s definitely not a Christmas movie for the whole family to enjoy.
Jingle all the Way is undeniably a trashy film, but it’s hard to beat the comedy of Arnold Schwarzenegger running around town fighting his way to purchase a Turbo Man action figure.
After 15 years, Elf is still undeniably a warm and charming Christmas film, still retaining its spot as a holiday favorite.
If you’re forced to watch The Christmas Chronicles with your family this holiday season, hold on for that Kurt Russell musical number and you’ll be just fine.
Was The Grinch necessary? Absolutely not. Sure, there’s some filler. Sure, there’s some cringe. But the quantity of them was not enough to impinge.
If there is one film you see this holiday season, make it Lez Bomb. It’s a modern and hilarious take on coming out, during one of the most hectic and family oriented holidays of the year.
Most Likely to Murder may not reinvent the wheel of holiday films, but its subversion of the genre, especially its willingness to fully indict and satirize its own protagonist, gives us ample reason to invest interest in the future of director Dan Gregor’s filmography.
Gremlins, an ’80s holiday classic, comes mainly from two influences: old-fashioned sci-fi/horror and the Looney Tunes.
Collateral Beauty is a messy film that is almost saved by its heartwarming theme and performance by Will Smith – though still not quite.