50 Christmas movies: the countdown starts here
50 films, 50 nights, and a deeply unreasonable amount of festive opinion. Our Christmas movie countdown runs November 5–December 24.
hristmas is 51 days away, which seems rude considering halloween was approximately twenty minutes ago. so we’re doing the sensible thing: making an entire film season out of it.
starting november 5, we’re counting down 50 christmas movies, one a day, until our number one arrives on christmas eve. classics, queer romance, animation, family disasters, and a little festive bloodshed. the holidays contain multitudes.
this is an editorial ranking, not a scientific measurement of how much christmas a film contains. the season has to matter to the story or the atmosphere, but the people involved do not have to be having a nice time. feature films and feature-length television movies count; standalone television specials get to sit this one out.
each day brings a spoiler-light case for the film, what makes it belong here, and the kind of evening it suits. no homework, no requirement to agree with the order, and absolutely no promise that everybody will behave at dinner.
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