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- Netflix. Love Actually (2003) Most romantic comedies tend to focus on one or two couples. Love Actually ups the ante with eight different couples throughout the film, and you might need a scorecard to keep up with them all.
- HBO and Max. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989) No other modern holiday movie gets the agony and ecstasy of Christmas quite as well as National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.
- Amazon Prime Video. This is Christmas (2022) Never heard of This is Christmas? Don’t worry, no one else has either. Released without a peep in 2022, the genuinely sweet British comedy is one of the most charming movies you’ll see in a while.
- Hulu. Elf (2003) Twenty years ago, Ferrell starred in the still-great Elf, which has become the defining Christmas movie of the 21st century. From the memorable quotes (“Buddy the elf, what’s your favorite color?”)
Dec 24, 2023 · 11-Minute Listen. Playlist. As families around the country watch their favorite Christmas films, NPR's Scott Detrow finds out what makes for a good Christmas movie. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "IT'S...
Dec 24, 2021 · Of course, you should start with the real classics, like the ’50s Hollywood adaptation of A Christmas Carol as well as *It’s a Wonderful Life—*but there’s also a number of more contemporary releases to work your way through, from the Kristen Stewart-led charmer Happiest Season to Emilia Clarke’s rom-com with a twist, Last Christmas.
- Happiest Season
- Die Hard
- Gremlins
- Black Christmas
- Carol
- Bad Santa
- Batman Returns
- Tangerine
- Trading Places
- Lethal Weapon
Between this and Palm Springs, Hulu can boast arguably the two best romantic comedies of 2020. Kristen Stewart delivers her strongest comic turn to date in Clea DuVall's charmer opposite Mackenzie Davis, as a young woman who pretends to be her girlfriend's straight roommate at Christmas to appease a conservative family. The all-star cast includes A...
Though John McTiernan's action masterclass has a slightly higher body count and several more explosions than It's a Wonderful Life, it's still a Christmas movie! Bruce Willis' Christmas Eve battle royale against Alan Rickman and a team of heavily armed terrorists atop Nakatomi Plaza stands tall as one of the finest action pictures ever made, along ...
Quick: is Joe Dante‘s handcrafted masterpiece of mayhem a horror movie for Halloween, or is it a Christmas movie? Gremlins is so deliciously inventive, so funny, and yes–so frightening, who could blame you for watching it at least twice a year. The PG-rated Gremlins was aimed at a wide audience and raked in a hefty $153 million against an $11 milli...
Bob Clark‘s decidedly darker Christmas movie (he also made perennial family-friendly favorite A Christmas Story) is a gnarly little thriller about a group of sorority sisters who are stalked and preyed upon by a psycho-killer who remains anonymous and is never caught (not common in this subgenre). The film was a box-office success, thanks in part t...
Based on the 1952 novel The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith, the most assured film of Todd Haynes‘ illustrious career to date tells the story of forbidden love between a young photographer (Rooney Mara) and an older woman (Cate Blanchett) going through a rough divorce. This is an utterly riveting, even exhausting watch, as the lovers must overc...
A foul-mouthed-yet-undeniably-hilarious treat for grown-ups only, from the director of Ghost World. This is one of Billy Bob Thornton's best roles, and the gloriously go-for-broke rude humor struck a chord with audiences, making Bad Santa a box-office success. Not everyone was tickled though: a 2003 editorial in The Washington Times likened Bad San...
One of the best films in the Batman series and likely the most underrated, Batman Returns is a vivid and wondrous marvel of production design and world-building. Tim Burton and his technical team took everything that made 1989's Batman stand out to the next level, and this is the most ravishing, distinct vision of Gotham City ever. Batman Returns w...
Sean Baker is one of our most innovative filmmakers. He makes humane, uncomfortably intimate yet fully cinematic films about characters who rarely get the big screen treatment. His breakthrough was Tangerine, an extraordinary and gut-bustingly funny comedy about a feisty, lovable, motormouth escort who storms the streets of Hollywood on Christmas E...
This loose adaptation of Mark Twain‘s 19th-century novel The Prince and the Pauper, where Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy play financially disparate men who switch lives, was rightfully compared to the classic comedies of Preston Sturges and Frank Capra upon its release. Aykroyd and Murphy are perfect foils, with great chemistry. This was also a break...
WriterShane Black's iconic, Oscar-nominated action comedy stars Mel Gibson and Danny Glover as mismatched LAPD officers investigating a mysterious death. Lethal Weapon was No. 1 at the U.S. box office for three weeks, ultimately grossing $120 million against a $15 million budget—and launching a franchise.
Your actual favourite Christmas movie is Black Christmas, but the last time you showed it at the family Christmas party was also the last time Aunt Milly talked to you.
Dec 17, 2020 · The traditional festive flicks are focused not only on the event itself but the old-school values it’s supposed to represent: Time with your family; giving and sharing; putting others before yourself; a moment of gratitude for what you have rather than what you lack. At least, that was the original aim.
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Nov 24, 2021 · If you know anything about these movies, you know that The Nine Lives of Christmas, in which Brandon Routh played a firefighter who met a girl and got a cat, is one of the best ones.
