The Grinch (2018)
The inhabitants of the fantasy town of Whoville are gearing up for their favorite time of year, Christmas, and this year has them trying to be three times more into it than in the...
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The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)
Mackenzie Foy stars as Clara, suffering through grief with her father and two siblings during their first holiday without her recently deceased mother, Marie. Clara receives an enigmatic and ornate Christmas gift, the last...
Scrooged (1988)
Charles Dickens’ classic novel, “A Christmas Carol”, provides the backbone, and the backstory, for this modern update. It’s become something of a cult classic for people to watch around Christmas time every year, though,...
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989)
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation is the perhaps best of the Vacation sequels, and, somehow, the one that feels the most different from the others, probably because it doesn’t actually involve the Griswold family actually traveling anywhere. You...
Krampus (2015)
Michael Dougherty, director of the cult horror flick of 2007, Trick ‘r Treat, returns to the genre to bring scares to yet another holiday in Krampus, which threatens to upend the generally benign season of gift-giving...
The Night Before (2015)
Isaac (Rogen, Steve Jobs), Ethan (Gordon-Levitt, The Walk), and Chris (Mackie, Love the Coopers) are friends since childhood who’ve made it a point, after Ethan’s parents are killed by a drunk driver, to get together every Christmas Eve...
Fred Claus (2007)
The proverbial lumps of coal (boy, isn’t this phrase becoming a trite cliché for movie critics?) called the family Christmas movie get trotted out toward the end of almost every year. For every good...
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
The gang is back, and once again, the youngest of the McCallister family, Kevin (Culkin, Uncle Buck), is separated when his family goes on vacation in Miami (how does one lose the only member of...
Black Christmas (1974)
Although John Carpenter’s 1978 film, Halloween, is widely called by many people the first of the true modern slasher films, many genre enthusiasts point to this little Canadian shocker, released four years earlier, as the one...
Home Alone (1990)
Perhaps the biggest surprise about Home Alone is not that it is liked by many people, especially as a movie to watch around Christmas — it’s that it would become a mega-blockbuster, shooting straight up...