Christmas Movies

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Which Is the Better Christmas Movie: Babygirl or Nosferatu?This December, audiences have two excellent stealth Christmas movies to choose from. But only one truly captures the holiday spirit.

By Laura Bradley

streamliner Dec. 21, 2024

A Festive Guide to All the New Holiday Movies on StreamingWe all need something to zone out in front of after a big holiday meal.

By Brian Tallerico

oscar futures Dec. 21, 2024

The 12 Oscar Contenders of ChristmasWhich movies have done enough to secure a place in the Best Picture ten, and which are still on the bubble?

By Nate Jones

oral history Dec. 18, 2024

‘More Snow, You Forehead’The untold story of the chaotic made-for-TV Christmas movie Arnold Schwarzenegger improbably directed in the early ’90s.

By Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey

role call Dec. 17, 2024

Nicholas Guest Answers Every Question We Have About Christmas VacationHow he and Julia Louis-Dreyfus helped create the quintessential yuppie couple: Todd and Margot Chester.

By Matthew Jacobs

vulture lists Dec. 17, 2024

22 Great Christmas Movies That Aren’t Christmas MoviesOur favorite movies with a hint of yuletide without all of the usual Christmas trappings and lessons.

By Bob Sassone

crying on set Dec. 13, 2024

Jennifer Love Hewitt Made a Christmas Movie to Help Process Her GriefWithout her mom, the “magic” of Christmas seemed lost. Enter The Holiday Junkie.

By Laura Bradley

blue is the warmest christmas Dec. 12, 2024

The Best Queer Holiday Movies to Make the Yuletide GayA trope-y holiday romance isn’t just for the straights.

By Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner

vulture lists Dec. 6, 2024

19 Christmas Horror Movies You Can Watch Right NowFa-la-la-AHHHHHH!

By Brooke Knisley

vulture lists Dec. 5, 2024

The 50 Best Christmas Movies of All TimeEstablished classics, new favorites, and even some horror.

By Keith Phipps

the ncu Dec. 5, 2024

Unraveling the Netflix Christmas UniverseA quest to find the connections between every NCU movie has destroyed our belief in a stable reality.

By Laura Bradley

making a list Nov. 16, 2024

Santas, RankedOur favorite jolly (usually) old (usually) men (usually).

By Katie Rife

mother christmas Dec. 20, 2023

Mrs. Clauses, RankedEveryone loves Santa’s better, campier half.

By Nathan Smith

romcom roundtable Dec. 19, 2023

‘Get Ready to Never Stop Working’What Hallmark’s tenured holiday hunks learned from a combined quarter-century in the feelings game.

By Devon Ivie

vulture lists Dec. 18, 2023

Rankin’ Rankin/Bass Christmas SpecialsRum pum pum pum.

By Brian Tallerico

buffering Nov. 16, 2023

Nobody Told Hallmark Channel That Cable Is DeadThe network that produces dozens of Christmas movies a year refused to join the streaming wars. It’s paid off big time.

By Josef Adalian

set visit Dec. 25, 2022

Step Inside the Christmas Movie Industrial ComplexMade-for-TV holiday films don’t simply arrive on your parents’ TV or Jodie Sweetin’s IMDb page fully formed. Here’s how they’re made.

By Rebecca Alter

now streaming Dec. 25, 2022

There Are 153 New Holiday Movies This YearFrom movies about girlbosses in hometowns to movies about girlbakers in small towns, we’ve catalogued them all.

By Carrie Wittmer

taxonomies Dec. 23, 2022

A Very Merry Taxonomy of the Black Christmas MovieSomeone’s dead or dying. A home or a business is at stake. Family secrets spill. A Black Christmas movie keeps you on the edge of your seat.

By Jumoke Balogun and Mitu Yilma

holiday streaming Dec. 22, 2022

The 21 Best Christmas Movies Streaming Right NowElf, The Santa Clause, It’s a Wonderful Life, and more.

By Vulture Editors

‘tis the season Dec. 22, 2022

Lacey Chabert Is at Home at HallmarkAnd she’ll never “abandon” the network. Unlike the others.

By Devon Ivie

vulture lists Dec. 21, 2022

Christmas Movies About Bloggers, Ranked by RealismNetflix’s A Christmas Prince series is somehow the best and worst at accurately depicting journalism.

By Carrie Wittmer

vulture recommends Dec. 14, 2022

Getting Into the Holiday Spirit? Allow The Silent Partner to Rip It Away.A key entry in the Christmas-crime canon.

By Chris Stanton

party report Dec. 9, 2022

The Ginny & Georgia Cast Loves a Hallmark Christmas MomentSara Waisglass, Jennifer Robertson, and Mason Temple discuss the reason for the TV season.

By Bethy Squires

2equel2 Dec. 6, 2022

The Oscars Are Sad There Won’t Be a Sequel to The HolidayWell, if that’s the case, they should’ve called it Last Holiday. Wait …

By Rebecca Alter

vulture recommends Dec. 6, 2022

Catch Me If You Can Is a (Lonely) Christmas MovieIt’s the most accurate representation of Christmas from the adult perspective.

By Carrie Wittmer

season’s beatings Dec. 6, 2022

Violent Night Was an Idea ‘Just Stupid Enough’ to ExistThe guys behind the R-rated holiday shoot-’em-up still sound incredulous — not only that it overperformed but that it reached the screen at all.

By Chris Lee

holiday streaming Dec. 5, 2022

The 9 Best Christmas Movies on NetflixFrom Hallmark-esque romcoms to a cherished holiday classic.

By Robert Daniels

holiday streaming Dec. 5, 2022

The 9 Best Christmas Movies on Amazon PrimeMiracle on 34th Street, Little Women, Edward Scissorhands, and more.

By Tim Grierson and Will Leitch

holiday streaming Dec. 5, 2022

The 7 Best Christmas Movies on Disney+Muppets! Olaf! Tim Allen!

By Christina Newland

holiday streaming Dec. 5, 2022

The 8 Best Christmas Movies on HBO MaxMan-size elves, mischievous gremlins, and Barbara Stanwyck.

By Keith Phipps

holiday streaming Dec. 5, 2022

The 8 Best Christmas Movies on HuluHappiest Season, Black Christmas, A Christmas Switch, and more.

By Dave Schilling

love fr Nov. 30, 2022

Love Actually Is So White It’s ‘Stupid’But 20 years isn’t too late for Richard Curtis to right those wrongs.

By Zoe Guy

merry merc-mas Nov. 20, 2022

Wait, We Could’ve Gotten a Deadpool Christmas Movie?Ryan Reynolds said he co-wrote one that never got made.

By Jennifer Zhan

close reads Nov. 10, 2022

Netflix’s Falling for Christmas Is a Dante’s Inferno-esque AllegoryIt’s the only reading of the film and its title that makes any sense.

By Rachel Handler

spirited away Nov. 2, 2022

Will Ferrell Is Back on His ‘Warming Cold Hearts’ GrindRyan Reynolds and Octavia Spencer co-star in Spirited for Apple TV+.

By Jason P. Frank

bah humbug buddies Sept. 23, 2022

Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds to Sing a Modern Christmas CarolApple is adapting the Dickens classic as a musical comedy called Spirited.

By Jennifer Zhan

vulture recommends Dec. 21, 2021

A Shane Black Christmas Isn’t All That MerryAnd maybe that’s the point.

By Tres Dean

chat room Dec. 13, 2021

Rob Delaney Says the Home Alone Reboot Is Not Not About Class WarfareThe actor on starring in the year’s funniest Christmas movie, Adam Driver’s centaur cologne ad, and which of his children wants to see Daddy get hurt.

By Rebecca Alter

a blog for christmas Dec. 3, 2021

An Attempt to Make Sense of This Year’s Netflix Christmas MoviesDiving deep into the similarities, differences, merits, and crimes against humanity of four holiday rom-coms.

By Rachel Handler

last night on late night Nov. 25, 2021

Watch Jimmy Fallon and Julie Bowen Recreate Every Christmas Movie PosterYou haven’t lived until you’ve seen Write Before Christmas starring Chad Michael Murray.

By Bethy Squires

buffering Nov. 19, 2021

A New Cable Channel Wants to Make Christmas Movies ‘Safe’ AgainA former Hallmark exec’s takeover of GAC Family has opened a new front in the war for Christmas viewers.

By Josef Adalian

advent calendar Nov. 18, 2021