The Viewer's Commentary

It’s that time of year again: Christmastime! And, for the fourth time, we here at The Viewer’s Commentary will celebrate in traditional fashion by reviewing nothing but season-appropriate films until 12/25. (And by “we,” I of course mean “me,” since I’m the only one who writes for the site….)

I might get in a theatrical release, if the urge strikes me so (I’ve been meaning to write a review of the fantastic Interstellar, so that might pop up), but, for the most part, I’ll be expending what energy I might have into writing about Christmas movies — though I do also keep putting off a review of a Hanukkah film, too, but can you really blame me when the only major one anyone seems to have made is Adam Sandler’s Eight Crazy Nights? Seriously, someone make a respectable Hanukkah film! Or at least point one out to me if there has been one and everyone just chooses to ignore it or something!

Then again, I’m probably going to be reviewing a lot of stinkers this month. I’ve burned through my favorites already and found a few new ones I love, but, really, of the films I’ve seen so far in preparation for this, most of them have been pretty awful. I’m talking equal to or even worse than A Madea Christmas awful. One of them, currently out in theatres and featuring a certain Growing Pains star, shouldn’t even qualify as a film since anyone who sits through it should be entitled to some kind of justice and compensation.

Ah well. Since this is the fourth time I’ve done this, that means that there’s been three previous months dedicated to the Christmas season. Luckily, for you, I’ve got them all listed below, with a bonus New Year’s appropriate film for you to ignore because, like Eight Crazy Nights, it’s just… horrible. Trust me.

• Bad Santa (Director’s Cut)
• Batman Returns (As I said before, it’s set during Christmas, so it… kind of… counts!)
• Disney’s A Christmas Carol
• A Christmas Story
• National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
• Die Hard
• Elf
• Home Alone / Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
• I’ll Be Home for Christmas
• It’s a Wonderful Life
• Jingle All the Way
• Joyeux Noël
• Love Actually
• A Madea Christmas
• Meet Me in St. Louis
• Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
• The Muppet Christmas Carol
• The Nativity Story
• New Year’s Eve
• The Nightmare Before Christmas
• The Polar Express
• Rise of the Guardians
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
• Scrooged
• Tokyo Godfathers
• White Christmas