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“I’m genuinely curious to know if other people watch this around Christmas, or if this is that holiday thing that we do that’s weird?”

“Charlie Brown’s holiday malaise is so hot right now”

“Not only is this special based entirely on a three-minute song, the kids also sing that same song about six times in less than half an hour; there’s even a ballad version!”

“I know a lot of people don’t find this movie funny, but I giggle at the majority of Sinbad’s clearly ad-libbed lines”

“Re-watching A Christmas Story is a great way to spend ninety minutes going, ‘oh, yeah, that reference comes from this, too!’”

“I’m going to need someone to buy me one of the fans used during the “Sisters” number”

“It’s like a holiday dinner with family, but with Mr. Bean.”

“I am fully in love with Dan Levy, but he plays, um, me in this movie, so I do feel both seen and narcissistically smitten”

“a love letter to other Christmas movies”

“Damn, more people in this single friend group have slept with each other than at a gay brunch”

“Treat Yo Self: The Movie”

“Even though the first two Santa Clause movies are my favorite Christmas movies, the third one is, well, not”

“I would argue this is the most recent Christmas movie deemed a classic for the general Christmas movie-watching population”

“I know they straight up kill people, but the gremlins really know how to throw a party!”

“You know how in Home Alone, Kevin lays booby traps for burglars, and it’s all silly? So Père Nöel is like that, except Thomas’s traps are designed to hunt down a serial killer”

“Everyone at the North Pole is mean. I get the point is for them all to learn to accept and love Rudolph, but damn, they hate this kid”

“My friends, we’ve arrived at one of the great cinematic debates: Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?”

“New rule: all movies end with the cast doing a soul train.”

“This movie has two conflicts introduced at the same time, and then just when you think there can’t be more to put on Santa’s plate – boom! There’s a magical watch that has limited magic. Art.”

“The Grinch running around naked and alone in his house talking to himself and his pet is The 2020 Mood.”

“Worst of all, it’s not even Christmas-y! It’s far more Groundhog Day-y!”

“there is enough macabre silliness to delight audiences more naughty than nice.”

“Wait, has “Trim Up the Tree” been kind of a banger this whole time? Why hasn’t Mariah covered this yet?”

“For what is essentially an hour-long build-up to a live-action Tom and Jerry episode, it’s surprising the movie actually works.”

“The Santa Clause is basically the Marriage Story of Christmas movies.”