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The Best Christmas Movies of All Time
From Home Lone and Elf to classics like Phenomenon on 34th Street, we've made our listing of great vacation films and checked it at least twice. At present, to all you lot nice boys and girls out there, nosotros present the Best Christmas Movies ever!
Christmas has come to represent unlike things to people over the years, and the movies here reflect that in kind. If you're traditional and feeling nostalgic, you'll be pleased to run into where Information technology's A Wonderful Life and Holiday Inn fabricated it on our listing of top vacation films. If this time of the year reminds you of sitting around the TV, eagerly pending those annual specials, expect out for A Charlie Brown Christmas and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. There'due south horror (Blackness Christmas), comedy (Trading Places), horror and comedy (Gremlins), and even a superhero covered in tinsel somewhere (Batman Returns). For those with an independent streak to celebrate, check out Tangerine and Ballad. Meanwhile, Netflix has made cracking strides in the Kris Kringle quadrant with The Christmas Chronicles and Klaus. And if Christmas means traveling somewhere you lot don't want to be, stuck in a building with people yous don't similar, have we got the ultimate movie for you: Die Hard! Ho ho ho, now we have a complete listing of nifty Christmas movies.
Wondering how we put this Christmas movie list together? Every movie on the list is Fresh and plays around with the spirit of Christmas and the holidays as a central theme. Then we sorted them all by our ranked formula, which factors in the movie's release year its number of reviews, to make the ultimate listing of holiday films that melted fifty-fifty the most cynical critics' hearts.
One moving-picture show y'all won't run into on this list: the Rotten-rated Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. On our podcast, we discuss whether 'Rotten Tomatoes Is Wrong' nigh this sequel.
And at present you're prepare to enter a wonderland of cinematic history, with the Best Christmas Movies always!
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#69
Adapted Score: 51002%
Critics Consensus: No consensus all the same.
Synopsis: Moved to pity past the Christmas season, New York District Attorney John Sargent (Fred MacMurray) lets pretty shoplifter Lee Leander... [More]
#68
Adjusted Score: 61643%
Critics Consensus: No consensus all the same.
Synopsis: Half-dozen-year-quondam Susan Walker (Mara Wilson) is skeptical of the Christmas myth surrounding Santa Claus, a trait she perhaps learned from... [More]
#67
Adjusted Score: 62189%
Critics Consensus: Solid performances and a steady directorial hand help The Preacher's Wife offer some reliably heartwarming - albeit fairly predictable - holiday cheer.
Synopsis: A cleric begins to doubt himself and is visited past an angel. The heavenly emissary is supposed to help the... [More]
#66
Adjusted Score: 63649%
Critics Consensus: Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Foursquare isn't quite upwardly to its star's standards, just its overwhelming skillful cheer and campy self-awareness may be only what viewers are looking for.
Synopsis: A woman who plans to sell a pocket-sized town without regard for the people who alive there receives a visit... [More than]
#65
Adapted Score: 66585%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Desperate to avoid his family's judgment about his perpetual single condition, Peter (Michael Urie) convinces his best friend Nick (Philemon... [More]
#64
Adjusted Score: 70446%
Critics Consensus: Spending time with these characters can be a lot to ask, merely Silent Nighttime peers into the completeness with admirable aplomb.
Synopsis: From producers Matthew Vaughn (Kingsman franchise), Trudie Styler (Moon) and Celine Rattray (The Kids Are Alright), Silent Night follows parents... [More than]
#63
Adjusted Score: 68542%
Critics Consensus: While it's missing some of the magic of the original, The Christmas Chronicles 2 serves up a sweetness 2d helping of holiday cheer that makes the almost of its marvelously matched leads.
Synopsis: Teenager Kate Pierce is reunited with Santa Claus when a troublemaker threatens to cancel Christmas -- forever.... [More]
#62
Adjusted Score: 69837%
Critics Consensus: Viewers seeking a fresh holiday viewing option -- or those simply in the mood for Santa Kurt Russell -- should observe The Christmas Chronicles well worth a yuletide stream.
Synopsis: Siblings Kate and Teddy Pierce hatch a scheme to capture Santa Claus on Christmas Eve. When the programme goes awry,... [More]
#61
Adapted Score: 70241%
Critics Consensus: While Christmas Vacation may not be the most disciplined comedy, it's got enough laughs and good cheer to make for a solid seasonal care for.
Synopsis: Every bit the holidays arroyo, Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) wants to have a perfect family Christmas, so he pesters his wife,... [More than]
#60
Adjusted Score: 71407%
Critics Consensus: A sugary tale overstuffed with likewise many stories. All the same, the bandage charms.
Synopsis: Nine intertwined stories examine the complexities of the one emotion that connects us all: honey. Among the characters explored are... [More than]
#58
Adjusted Score: 71951%
Critics Consensus: Still raunchy, nevertheless irreverent, and still hitting-and-miss, this Harold & Kumar outing also has a Christmas miracle: The audition gets to come across the sweeter side of the duo.
Synopsis: Six years subsequently their last adventure, stoner pals Harold (John Cho) and Kumar (Kal Penn) have grown apart and found... [More]
#57
Adjusted Score: 72842%
Critics Consensus: The rare slasher with enough intelligence to air current up the tension between encarmine outbursts, Black Christmas offers fiendishly enjoyable vacation viewing for genre fans.
Synopsis: Every bit wintertime suspension begins, a group of sorority sisters, including Jess (Olivia Hussey) and the often inebriated Barb (Margot Kidder),... [More]
#56
Adjusted Score: 72450%
Critics Consensus: More bippity boppity than boo, Godmothered tweaks fairytale conventions with merely enough self-enlightened sense of humour to overcome a disappointing deficit of genuine magic.
Synopsis: Set at Christmas time, "Godmothered" is a one-act nigh Eleanor, a immature, inexperienced fairy godmother-in-training (Jillian Bell), who upon hearing... [More]
#55
Adjusted Score: 73497%
Critics Consensus: The Best Human being Holiday manages honest laughs out of broad humor, and affects convincing drama from a deeply conventional plot.
Synopsis: About 15 years after they were last together as a group, college friends Lance (Morris Anecdote), Harper (Taye Diggs), Candace... [More]
#54
Adjusted Score: 72052%
Critics Consensus: Scrooged gets by with Nib Murray and a dash of holiday spirit, although information technology's hampered past a markedly conflicted tone and an undercurrent of mean-spiritedness.
Synopsis: In this mod take on Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," Frank Cross (Beak Murray) is a wildly successful television executive... [More]
#53
Adjusted Score: 71035%
Critics Consensus: Domicile Alone uneven but frequently funny premise stretched unreasonably thin is buoyed by Macaulay Culkin'southward beautiful functioning and strong supporting stars.
Synopsis: When bratty 8-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) acts out the night before a family trip to Paris, his mother (Catherine... [More]
#52
Adapted Score: 46946%
Critics Consensus: Frosty the Snowman is a jolly, happy sing-forth that volition delight children with its crisp animation and affable championship grapheme, who makes an indelible impression with his corncob pipe, button nose, and eyes fabricated out of coal.
Synopsis: A discarded magic top chapeau brings to life the snowman that a group of children made, until a wizard, professor... [More]
#51
Adjusted Score: 47825%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A retelling of the classic Dickens tale with Disney'south archetype characters.... [More]
#50
Adjusted Score: 74376%
Critics Consensus: The Dark Before provokes enough belly laughs to qualify as a worthwhile improver to the list of Christmas comedies worth revisiting, fifty-fifty if it isn't quite every bit consistent as the classics.
Synopsis: For the terminal ten years, lifelong buddies Ethan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), Isaac (Seth Rogen) and Chris (Anthony Mackie) have gathered on... [More]
#49
Adjusted Score: 75077%
Critics Consensus: Undeniably uneven and too night for some, The Ref nonetheless boasts strong turns from Denis Leary, Judy Davis, and Kevin Spacey, too every bit a sharply funny script.
Synopsis: Bickering spouses (Judy Davis, Kevin Spacey) annoy the cat burglar (Denis Leary) who takes them hostage in their Connecticut home.... [More]
#48
Adjusted Score: 75455%
Critics Consensus: The Santa Clause is utterly undemanding, merely it's firmly rooted in the sort of good quondam-fashioned holiday spirit missing from too many modern yuletide films.
Synopsis: Divorced dad Scott (Tim Allen) has custody of his son (Eric Lloyd) on Christmas Eve. Afterwards he accidentally kills a... [More than]
#47
Adjusted Score: 76239%
Critics Consensus: The Force isn't fully with this Lego Star Wars adventure, but its affectionate franchise callbacks and self-enlightened sense of humor should delight fans looking to spend their holidays in a galaxy far, far away...
Synopsis: "The LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special" reunites Rey, Finn, Poe, Chewie, Rose and the droids for a joyous feast on... [More]
#46
Adjusted Score: 77835%
Critics Consensus: Intelligent, well-acted, and satisfyingly low-fundamental, Happy Christmas marks some other step in prolific filmmaker Joe Swanberg's creative evolution.
Synopsis: An immature party girl (Anna Kendrick) moves in with her brother's family to get over a breakup and throws their... [More]
#45
Adjusted Score: 78486%
Critics Consensus: The poignant humanity on display in Joyeux Noel makes its sentimentality forgivable.
Synopsis: With the advent of Globe War I, Europe is thrown into a barbarous and fell chaos as men are forced... [More than]
#44
Adjusted Score: 78059%
Critics Consensus: It may not be the finest version of Charles Dickens' tale to grace the screen, but The Muppet Christmas Carol is funny and heartwarming, and serves equally a proficient introduction to the story for young viewers.
Synopsis: The Muppets perform the classic Dickens holiday tale, with Kermit the Frog playing Bob Cratchit, the put-upon clerk of stingy... [More]
#43
Adjusted Score: 80922%
Critics Consensus: Information technology may exist too sweetness for some, but this unabashedly sentimental holiday favorite is likewise cheerful to resist.
Synopsis: Singers Bob Wallace (Bing Crosby) and Phil Davis (Danny Kaye) join sister act Betty (Rosemary Clooney) and Judy Haynes (Vera-Ellen)... [More]
#42
Adapted Score: 81786%
Critics Consensus: Comfortably cliché, Allow It Snow wears its influences on its sleeve, but works anyway cheers an first-class ensemble and just the right amount of holiday cheer.
Synopsis: A snowstorm brings a group of immature people together.... [More]
#41
Adjusted Score: 82054%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Not even Santa Claus is rubber from the evil that descends on Bailey Downs, a small boondocks that is suddenly... [More]
#xl
Adapted Score: 81449%
Critics Consensus: While You Were Sleeping is built wholly from familiar ingredients, just assembled with such skill -- and with such a charming performance from Sandra Bullock -- that information technology gives formula a adept name.
Synopsis: Lonely transit worker Lucy Eleanor Moderatz (Sandra Bullock) pulls her longtime shell, Peter (Peter Gallagher), from the path of an... [More]
#39
Adjusted Score: 83064%
Critics Consensus: Anna and the Apocalypse finds fresh brains and a lot of centre in the crowded zombie genre - not to mention a fun genre mashup populated past rootable characters.
Synopsis: A zombie apocalypse threatens the sleepy boondocks of Fiddling Haven - at Christmas - forcing Anna and her friends to... [More]
#38
Adjusted Score: 85949%
Critics Consensus: No consensus notwithstanding.
Synopsis: Christmastime is here. Happiness and cheer. And for Peanuts fans everywhere, it just wouldn't be Christmas without this archetype holiday... [More]
#37
Adjusted Score: 86239%
Critics Consensus: A gloriously rude and gleefully offensive black one-act, Bad Santa isn't for everyone, only grinches volition observe it uproariously funny.
Synopsis: In this dark comedy, the crotchety Willie T. Stokes (Billy Bob Thornton) and his partner (Tony Cox) reunite once a... [More]
#36
Adjusted Score: 87430%
Critics Consensus: Director Tim Burton's night, brooding atmosphere, Michael Keaton'due south work as the tormented hero, and the flawless casting of Danny DeVito as The Penguin and Christopher Walken as, well, Christopher Walken make the sequel better than the get-go.
Synopsis: The monstrous Penguin (Danny DeVito), who lives in the sewers beneath Gotham, joins upwardly with wicked stupor-headed businessman Max Shreck... [More than]
#35
Adjusted Score: 87167%
Critics Consensus: The Bishop's Wife succeeds thank you to the forcefulness of winning performances from a stellar bandage, which includes Cary Grant and Loretta Immature.
Synopsis: Down-hearted past his efforts to raise money to build a cathedral, Bishop Henry Brougham (David Niven) beseeches heaven for guidance,... [More than]
#34
Adapted Score: 89014%
Critics Consensus: Featuring deft interplay betwixt Eddie Spud and Dan Aykroyd, Trading Places is an immensely appealing social satire.
Synopsis: Upper-crust executive Louis Winthorpe III (Dan Aykroyd) and down-and-out hustler Baton Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy) are the subjects of a... [More than]
#33
Adjusted Score: 102131%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Stannie Dum (Stan Laurel) and Ollie Dee (Oliver Hardy) rent rooms in Mother Peep's shoe in Toyland. When Mother Peep... [More]
#32
Adapted Score: 89334%
Critics Consensus: No consensus even so.
Synopsis: While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones (Dennis Morgan) grows familiar with the "Diary of a Housewife" column... [More than]
#31
Adjusted Score: 89705%
Critics Consensus: The 1951 adaptation of Charles Dickens' timeless archetype is peradventure the nearly faithful film version -- and Alastair Sim'southward performance as Scrooge is not to be missed.
Synopsis: Crotchety Victorian businessman Ebenezer Scrooge (Alastair Sim) has no utilize for festivity, even at Christmas. After resentfully allowing timid clerk... [More than]
#xxx
Adapted Score: 90525%
Critics Consensus: Whether you choose to see information technology as a argument on consumer culture or only a special effects-heavy popcorn motion picture, Gremlins is a minor classic.
Synopsis: A gadget salesman is looking for a special gift for his son and finds ane at a store in Chinatown.... [More]
#29
Adjusted Score: 90277%
Critics Consensus: A precipitous blackness one-act about a cluttered family unit vacation gathering, A Christmas Tale is ever involving, thanks to an impressive ensemble bandage.
Synopsis: When steely French matriarch Junon (Catherine Deneuve) learns she has leukemia, she asks her children and grandchildren at the family... [More]
#28
Adjusted Score: 91231%
Critics Consensus: A film full of Yuletide cheer, Elf is a spirited, good-natured family one-act, and it benefits greatly from Volition Ferrell's funny and charming performance as 1 of Santa's biggest helpers.
Synopsis: Buddy (Will Ferrell) was accidentally transported to the North Pole equally a toddler and raised to adulthood among Santa's elves.... [More]
#27
Adapted Score: 90979%
Critics Consensus: The Man Who Invented Christmas adds vacation magic to the writing of A Christmas Carol, putting a sweetly revisionist spin on the story behind a archetype yuletide tale.
Synopsis: In 1843 London, author Charles Dickens finds himself in financial problem subsequently writing three unsuccessful novels in a row. Drastic... [More]
#26
Adjusted Score: 91491%
Critics Consensus: No consensus nevertheless.
Synopsis: Suzanne struggles to put her life dorsum together after a tragedy at Christmas time.... [More than]
#25
Adjusted Score: 92109%
Critics Consensus: Cute and substantive, Tokyo Godfathers adds a moving -- and somewhat anarchistic -- entry to the animated Christmas canon.
Synopsis: Middle-aged alcoholic Gin (Toru Emori), teenage runaway Miyuki (Aya Okamoto) and former drag queen Hana (Yoshiaki Umegaki) are a trio... [More]
#24
Adapted Score: 92784%
Critics Consensus: Tongue-in-cheek satire blends well with entertaining action and spot-on performances in this nighttime, eclectic neo-noir homage.
Synopsis: Ii-bit crook Harry Lockhart (Robert Downey Jr.) stumbles into an audition for a mystery film while on the run from... [More]
#23
Adjusted Score: 92816%
Critics Consensus: Rare Exports is an unexpectedly delightful crossbreed of deadpan comedy and Christmas horror.
Synopsis: A immature male child named Pietari (Onni Tommila) and his friend Juuso (Ilmari Järvenpää) recall a clandestine mountain drilling project near... [More]
#22
Adapted Score: 93221%
Critics Consensus: Carried past its charismatic young bandage, Ameliorate Lookout Out is an adorably sinister vacation horror movie.
Synopsis: Ashley travels to the suburban dwelling house of the Lerners to baby-sit down their 12-year-former son Luke at Christmastime. She must shortly... [More than]
#21
Adapted Score: 93755%
Critics Consensus: Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey celebrates the yuletide season with a holiday gamble whose exuberant spirit is matched by its uplifting message.
Synopsis: Decades afterwards his apprentice betrays him, a in one case joyful toymaker finds new hope when his bright young granddaughter appears on... [More]
#20
Adjusted Score: 104131%
Critics Consensus: Director Billy Wilder's customary cynicism is leavened here past tender humor, romance, and genuine desolation.
Synopsis: Insurance worker C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon) lends his Upper West Side apartment to company bosses to use for extramarital affairs.... [More than]
#19
Adjusted Score: 93930%
Critics Consensus: Both warmly nostalgic and darkly humorous, A Christmas Story deserves its status as a holiday perennial.
Synopsis: Based on the humorous writings of author Jean Shepherd, this beloved holiday moving picture follows the wintry exploits of youngster Ralphie... [More]
#xviii
Adapted Score: 94171%
Critics Consensus: Thanks to a powerhouse lineup of talented actresses, Gillian Armstrong'southward take on Louisa May Alcott'southward Little Women proves that a timeless story can succeed no affair how many times it'southward told.
Synopsis: In this 1994 adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's archetype, the March sisters confront growing pains, financial shortages, family unit tragedies and... [More than]
#17
Adjusted Score: 92877%
Critics Consensus: The first collaboration between Johnny Depp and Tim Burton, Edward Scissorhands is a magical mod fairy tale with gothic overtones and a sweet center.
Synopsis: A scientist (Vincent Toll) builds an blithe human being being -- the gentle Edward (Johnny Depp). The scientist dies before he... [More]
#16
Adjusted Score: 95594%
Critics Consensus: A jolly skilful time with heartfelt performances and more enough holiday cheer, all y'all'll want for Christmas is Happiest Flavor.
Synopsis: This romantic one-act is about longtime lesbian couple Abby (Kristen Stewart) and Harper (Mackenzie Davis), who made plans to go... [More]
#15
Adjusted Score: 96017%
Critics Consensus: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a yule-tide jewel that bursts with heart-popping iconography, a spirited soundtrack, and a heart-warming celebration of difference.
Synopsis: This stop-motion animagic version of the classic Christmas tale adds a bit of a twist when Rudolph encounters an abominable... [More]
#14
Adapted Score: 97762%
Critics Consensus: Beautiful manus-drawn blitheness and a humorous, heartwarming narrative make Klaus an instant candidate for holiday classic status.
Synopsis: A drastic postman accidentally brings about the genesis of Santa Claus.... [More than]
#13
Adapted Score: 98678%
Critics Consensus: Aardman Animations broadens their humour a bit for Arthur Christmas, a clever and earnest holiday film with surprising emotional forcefulness.
Synopsis: Everyone knows that, each Christmas, Santa Claus delivers presents to every last child on Earth. What everyone doesn't know is... [More]
#12
Adjusted Score: 98863%
Critics Consensus: Its many imitators (and sequels) have never come shut to matching the taut thrills of the definitive holiday action classic.
Synopsis: New York Metropolis policeman John McClane (Bruce Willis) is visiting his estranged married woman (Bonnie Bedelia) and ii daughters on Christmas... [More]
#11
Adapted Score: 102331%
Critics Consensus: Tangerine shatters casting conventions and its filmmaking techniques are upwards-to-the-minute, but it's an one-time-fashioned comedy at heart -- and a pretty wonderful one at that.
Synopsis: After hearing that her boyfriend/pimp cheated on her while she was in jail, a hooker and her all-time friend fix... [More]
#ten
Adjusted Score: 106432%
Critics Consensus: Shaped by Todd Haynes' deft direction and powered by a strong cast led by Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, Ballad lives up to its groundbreaking source material.
Synopsis: Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara) spots the cute, elegant Carol (Cate Blanchett) perusing the doll displays in a 1950s Manhattan department... [More]
#nine
Adjusted Score: 104163%
Critics Consensus: A disarmingly sugariness musical led by outstanding performances from Judy Garland and Margaret O'Brien, Meet Me in St. Louis offers a holiday treat for all ages.
Synopsis: "Run into Me in St. Louis" is a classic MGM romantic musical comedy that focuses on four sisters (one of whom... [More than]
#8
Adjusted Score: 121303%
Critics Consensus: With a stellar bandage and a smart, sensitive retelling of its classic source material, Greta Gerwig's Little Women proves some stories truly are timeless.
Synopsis: In the years subsequently the Civil State of war, Jo March lives in New York and makes her living equally a writer,... [More than]
#seven
Adapted Score: 102450%
Critics Consensus: The Nightmare Before Christmas is a stunningly original and visually delightful work of stop-movement animation.
Synopsis: The film follows the misadventures of Jack Skellington, Halloweentown'southward dearest pumpkin king, who has become bored with the same annual... [More]
#half-dozen
Adapted Score: 100756%
Critics Consensus: How the Grinch Stole Christmas brings an impressive array of talent to carry on an adaptation that honors a classic holiday story -- and has rightfully go a yuletide tradition of its own.
Synopsis: This made-for-TV Christmas special is a classic. Based on a Dr. Seuss volume, information technology is about a Christmas-hating Grinch who... [More]
#five
Adjusted Score: 103982%
Critics Consensus: Deftly directed by Ernst Lubitsch from a smart, funny script by Samson Raphaelson, The Shop Effectually the Corner is a romantic comedy in the finest sense of the term.
Synopsis: Alfred Kralik (James Stewart) and Klara Novak (Margaret Sullavan) are employees at Matuschek and Company, a general shop in Budapest.... [More]
#iv
Adjusted Score: 100177%
Critics Consensus: With the combined might of Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, and Irving Berlin working in its favor, Holiday Inn is a seasonal classic -- not to the lowest degree because it introduced "White Christmas" to the earth.
Synopsis: In this Irving Berlin musical, Jim (Bing Crosby) and Lila are members of a performing trio who plan to quit... [More]
#three
Adapted Score: 102000%
Critics Consensus: Irrefutable proof that gentle sentimentalism can exist the chief ingredient in a wonderful film, Miracle on 34th Street delivers a warm holiday message without resorting to treacle.
Synopsis: In this Christmas classic, an old man going by the name of Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn) fills in for an... [More]
#2
Adjusted Score: 82641%
Critics Consensus: For viewers seeking an undemanding and sweetly nostalgic ode to yuletide seasons past, 8-Bit Christmas boots up without a glitch.
Synopsis: A humorous and heartfelt expect back at the adventures of childhood. Set up in suburban Chicago in the tardily 1980s, the... [More than]
#1
Adapted Score: 104217%
Critics Consensus: The vacation archetype to ascertain all vacation classics, It's a Wonderful Life is one of a handful of films worth an almanac viewing.
Synopsis: Afterward George Bailey (James Stewart) wishes he had never been born, an angel (Henry Travers) is sent to earth to... [More]
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