#christmas-movies

#christmas-movies

Many Christmas movies announce themselves with green-hatted elves, Santa, the red-nosed reindeer, snowmen named Frosty, and other recognizable figures. But the Christmas spirit is about more than ornament-ready characters. And a movie need not take place during yuletide, or end with a choir of schoolchildren singing "Silent Night," to evoke what the season is all about. The exact meaning of the season, of course, is different for everyone-hence the nine movies below might not be anyone's first choice when Grandma says

2. ...and the Toys "R" Us Big Toy Book coming in the mail so that you could go through them and circle all the toys you wanted (in hopes that your parents would see them circled and know what to get you): 3. Looking through The Sharper Image Catalog and wanting everything in it because it seemed so cool and oh-so-futuristic (though knowing deep-down you couldn't ask for any of it because it was very $$$): 4. Watching the amazing The Muppet Christmas Carol, and always forgetting about the scary scenes, like when Statler and Waldorf show up as the ghosts of Jacob and Robert Marley: 5. Always having the dilemma of which Home Alone movie you wanted to watch first when kicking off the holidays:

When Netflix released "A Christmas Prince" in 2017, it became one of the true viral moments of the holiday season - eight years later, the streamer is still chasing that high. This year, Netflix released four new Christmas films: "My Secret Santa," "A Merry Little Ex-Mas," "Champagne Problems," and "Jingle Bell Heist." They range from entertaining to bonkers. Here are this year's new Netflix holiday movies ranked from worst to best.