Our Christmas Countdown

Our favorite movies of the holiday season. A movie a day until December 25th!

Dec. 1: Christmas Vacation (1989) – The Griswold family’s plans for a big family Christmas predictably turn into a big disaster.
Our rating: (9.5/10)

Dec. 2: It’s A Wonderful Life (1946) – An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would have been like if he never existed.
Our rating: (9.5/10)

Dec. 3: A Christmas Story (1983) – Ralphie has to convince his parents, teachers, and Santa that a Red Ryder BB gun really is the perfect gift for the 1940′s.
Our rating: (9.5/10)

Dec. 4: Elf (2003) – After inadvertently wreaking havoc on the elf community due to his ungainly size, a man raised as an elf at the North Pole is sent to the U.S. in search of his true identity.
Our rating: (9/10)

Dec. 5: Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas (1977) – A poor otter family risks everything for the chance to win the cash prize of a talent contest for Christmas.
Our rating: (8/10)

Dec. 6: You’ve Got Mail (1998) – Two business rivals hate each other at the office but fall in love over the internet.
Our rating: (8/10)

Dec. 7: The Polar Express (2004) – On Christmas Eve, a doubting boy boards a magical train that’s headed to the North Pole and Santa Claus’s home.
Our rating: (9/10)

Dec. 8: The Santa Clause (1994) – When a man inadvertantly kills Santa on Christmas Eve, he finds himself magically recruited to take his place.
Our rating: (9/10)

Dec. 9: A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) – Repelled by the commercialism he sees around him, Charlie Brown tries to find the true meaning of Christmas.
Our rating: (8/10)

Dec. 10: Gremlins (1984) – A boy inadvertantly breaks 3 important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town.
Our rating: (8/10)

Dec. 11: Home Alone (1990) – An eight year-old, who is accidentally left behind while his family flies to France for Christmas, has to defend his home against idiotic burglars.
Our rating: (8.5/10)

Dec. 12: The Year Without A Santa Claus (1974) – Mrs. Claus tells us about the time Santa had a bad cold and decided to take a vacation from Christmas.
Our rating: (8/10)

Dec. 13: Jingle All The Way (1996) – A harried father decides to dream the impossible dream, to get that year’s hot toy for his son just before Christmas Day.
Our rating: (8.5/10)

Dec. 14: Deck The Halls (2006) – Two neighbors have it out after one of them decorates his house for the holidays so brightly that it can be seen from space.
Our rating: (7.5/10)

Dec. 15: Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) – A misfit reindeer and his friends look for a place that will accept them.
Our rating: (9.5/10)

Dec. 16: Reindeer Games (2000) – After assuming his dead cellmate’s identity to get with his girlfriend, an ex-con finds himself the reluctant participant in a casino heist.
Our rating: (7/10)

Dec. 17: Jack Frost (1998) – A father, who can’t keep his promises, dies in a car accident. One year later, he returns as a snowman, who has the final chance to put things right with his son before he is gone forever.
Our rating: (7/10)

Dec. 18: Scrooged (1988) – A cynically selfish TV executive gets haunted by three spirits bearing lessons on Christmas Eve.
Our rating: (6/10)

Dec. 19: Frosty The Snowman (1969) – A living snowman and a little girl struggle to elude a greedy magician who is after the snowman’s magic hat.
Our rating: (7/10)

Dec. 20: The Family Man (2000) – A fast-lane investment broker, offered the opportunity to see how the other half lives, wakes up to find that his sports car and girlfriend have become a mini-van and wife.
Our rating: (9.5/10)

Dec. 21: Serendipity (2001) – A couple reunite years after the night they first met, fell in love, and separated, convinced that one day they’d end up together.
Our rating: (9.5/10)

Dec. 22: The Santa Clause 2 (2002) – Scott Calvin has been a humble Santa Claus for nearly ten years, but it might come to an end if he doesn’t find a Mrs. Claus.
Our rating: (8/10)

Dec. 23: A Christmas Carol (1984) – An old miser who makes excuses for his uncaring nature learns real compassion when 3 ghosts visit him on Christmas Eve.
Our rating: (9.5/10)