I absolutely love Christmas movies. Both good ones and the Hallmark ones that are the exactly same story and characters in every movie. You know the ones: a city girl ends up in countryside either intentionally or accidentally just before Christmas, meets a handsome local guy who she has problems first but as they save the local Christmas (there’s almost always a fundraiser!) they fall in love. Oops, sorry for spoiling them all.
Don’t expect any deep dives or long reviews: most of the movies are the same so there’s very little to say.
And before you ask: yes, Die Hard is a Christmas movie.
For 2025, here’s a list of the movies I’ve been watching.
- One Royal Holiday. I started the year with One Royal Holiday, a movie I haven’t seen before. This one is only half-way same story as what I described above but instead belongs to the other popular genre where a regular girl falls in love with a prince. This time it’s the royalty who gets stranded in the girl’s town and she gets to help them out. Very classic story
- Christmas on Every Page. The IMDB page says it all: “A big-city ad exec visits her hometown to rescue her family’s bookstore. Working with a talented local artist on a holiday mural project, she rediscovers both her creative spark and her roots in the community.” Yup, that’s a classic Christmas hallmark-esque story for you. It ticks every single box of the formula and doesn’t try to hide it at all. I watched it on the evening of my first day in a new client project and it was perfect story for my mushed brain.