Paste's Greatest Christmas Movies of All Time
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While any list of favorites or “best” contain a strong dose of subjectivity, a list of the Best Christmas Movies of All Time is even less constrained by questions of cinematic quality and other, objective criteria. After all, if your holiday comfort food is Last Christmas or Christmas with the Kranks, who are we to judge? Still, that doesn’t mean some films haven’t distinguished themselves over time (and, often, through critical consensus) as go-to holiday fare, and while we won’t judge you, we will absolutely judge—or at least rank—those.
Publishes November 2022
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It's a Wonderful Life
1946, in 33 top lists Check -
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The Nightmare Before Christmas
1993, in 15 top lists Check -
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Miracle on 34th Street
1947, in 7 top lists Check -
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A Charlie Brown Christmas
1965, in 0 top lists Check -
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Elf
2003, in 3 top lists Check -
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A Christmas Story
1983, in 4 top lists Check -
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Home Alone
1990, in 6 top lists Check -
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White Christmas
1954, in 1 top list Check -
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The Muppet Christmas Carol
1992, in 1 top list Check -
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Die Hard
1988, in 21 top lists Check -
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Gremlins
1984, in 4 top lists Check -
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Scrooge
1951 — a.k.a. A Christmas Carol, in 4 top lists Check -
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Black Christmas
1974, in 3 top lists Check -
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Scrooged
1988, in 0 top lists Check -
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
1966, in 0 top lists Check -
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
1964, in 0 top lists Check -
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National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
1989 — a.k.a. Christmas Vacation, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Year Without a Santa Claus
1974, in 0 top lists Check -
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Bad Santa
2003, in 3 top lists Check -
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Tôkyô goddofâzâzu
2003 — a.k.a. Tokyo Godfathers, in 5 top lists Check -
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Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
1970, in 0 top lists Check -
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Rare Exports
2010, in 3 top lists Check -
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A Very Murray Christmas
2015, in 0 top lists Check -
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Klaus
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Un conte de Noël
2008 — a.k.a. A Christmas Tale, in 4 top lists Check -
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Christmas in Connecticut
1945, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Shop Around the Corner
1940, in 14 top lists Check -
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The Polar Express
2004, in 2 top lists Check -
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Anna and the Apocalypse
2017, in 0 top lists -
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The Family Stone
2005, in 0 top lists Check -
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It Happened on Fifth Avenue
1947, in 0 top lists Check -
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Tangerine
2015, in 5 top lists Check -
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Arthur Christmas
2011, in 0 top lists Check -
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Krampus
2015, in 0 top lists Check -
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Happiest Season
2020, in 0 top lists
Last updated on Nov 22, 2022; source