Each year at RunPee we get a little closer to reviewing all the Christmas films — at least, all of the good and/or notorious ones that popular culture appreciates. One year I tried to take on some Hallmark Christmas movies and found I couldn’t quite go that far down the sickly sweet rabbithole, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have a full Santa sack of great film reviews for your browsing pleasure.
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Choose from Modern, Classic, and Non-Christmas Christmas films, as well as a few Holiday Specials & Shorts, and some RunPee Holiday Errata. We add new review links to this list all the time, so keep checking back. (And keep checking it twice, to see which movies are naughty and which are nice). What are your favorites? What scratches your annual Xmas rewatch itch?
Modern Christmas Movies
Also see: Love Actually and Christmas Is All Around (That “Festering Turd of a Record”)
More on: the Deadpool Before Christmas
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Virgin Watch Review: A Merry Friggin Christmas
Accidental Rewatch: A Merry Friggin Christmas – Right after I watched the brilliant TV show Community, I turned around and rewatched it, this time to introduce it to RunPee Mom. Community is that good! Then looked for other things Joel McHale starred in. Friggin Christmas had McHale and also Robin Williams in the lineup. What could go wrong? Too bad this movie was still so relentlessly awful that forgetting I viewed AND reviewed it here three years ago was easy. For your Christmas Community fix, skip back to the annual Christmas episodes, or even Chevy Chase’s still-Grinchy-but-sometimes-amusing Christmas Vacation.
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
Rise of the Guardians — A fun holiday film about Jack Frost. (And Santa, the Easter Bunny, and other amusing childhood icons.)
Rewatch Review: The Man Who Invented Christmas
Original Review: The Man Who Invented Christmas
Mickey’s Once Upon A Christmas
Classic Christmas Movies
Scrooge, or, Marley’s Ghost (1901)
Christmas In Connecticut (1945)
Non-Christmas Christmas Movies
The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)
Home Alone (1990) — This is actually not a Christmas movie. Call it Die Hard With A Kid. Read my review and see what you think.
Home Alone 2 — Same as the first, but a bit worse.
The Princess Bride/The Deadpool Before Christmas
Riders Of Justice/Retfærdighedens Ryttere (2020)
Indies At Christmas
Christmas Specials and Shorts
Lego Movie 2 Holiday Short – Christmas is Awesome
Weirdest Moments in Classic Christmas Specials
The Grinch Who Stole Christmas
The Guardians Of The Galaxy Holiday Special
Have A Merry RunPee Christmas
A Merry Movie Christmas – The RunPee Family’s Favorite Holiday Films
It’s A Wonderful Christmas – How RunPee Rob takes in the holiday season
Miracle On 34th Street (original vs modern version: 1947 vs 1994)
All About A Christmas Carol — and there have been many!
Well, that’s what we have through 2020. We add more each year and vow to get them ALL someday (except for those Hallmark Christmas specials…we just can’t go there. (If you adore Hallmark movies, want to review them for us on RunPee? There are perks!) Merry Christmas, RunPeeps!
Update: We’ve added a bunch of new Christmasy reviews for 2021 and more are going up through the holidays until January 2022. In fact, UK RunPeep Rob is making an entire section for every movie and TV episode based on A Christmas Carol. It’s going to be huge. Stay tuned. 😉
Did we miss any of your favorites? Tell us what you’d like us to review next in the comments below.
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