As Thanksgiving passes into the rearview mirror, we find ourselves once again in the Christmas season. While we tend to be more Charlie Brown than Ralphie Parker, we still enjoy a good Christmas film and have made a point to review Christmas movies over the years. If you need help deciding what holiday picture to tune into as a break from the endless shopping and baking, we're here for you.
Anton makes the case for watching the first Harry Potter movie during Christmas time.
The Holdovers is something of a Christmas miracle: an Alexander Payne movie that doesn’t have contempt for its characters.
Sean Anders’ musical riff on A Christmas Carol starring Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds is a hyperactive, amiable, and incoherent bit of Christmas content.
The Brothers offer up 12 unconventional picks to watch over the Christmas holidays.
Home Sweet Home Alone is bad in ways that are revealing of the differences between 1990s family entertainment and that of the 2020s.
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, The Little Drummer Boy, and Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town are beloved for their stop-motion animation and imaginative blend of religious and secular Christmas stories.
A charming new window onto Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol.
Die Hard is the definitive action film of the 1980s and a quintessential Christmas story about a family coming together.
The Brothers discuss the beloved Christmas classic, compare it to other adaptations of A Christmas Carol, praise Michael Caine’s performance, and explore its formal filmmaking.
The buddy cop classic is an exceptional action film, but it also hides a serious look at suicide and the need for family in its blockbuster antics.
Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men may seem like an unlikely Christmas movie, but this dystopian vision gets at the heart of the Christmas story.
The Shop Around the Corner is an exceptional romantic comedy that captures the intellectual and emotional fencing match that is early romance.
Jack Skellington is a great character in a good movie.
Jon Favreau’s Elf still remains the 21st-century’s most iconic Christmas classic.