The 12 genres of Christmas movie

Time Out's Film team prove that there's a Christmas film for everyone

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4. 'White Christmas' (1954)

Genre Musical

Christmas credentials Lengthy, aimless and only tangentially concerned with Xmas, Michael Curtiz’s partial remake of 1942’s ‘Holiday Inn’ – minus the questionable ‘blackface’ Abraham Lincoln number – endures largely because of its irrevocable connection with its title song (which was also used in ‘Holiday Inn’!). Danny Kaye and Ba-Da-Bing Crosby are agreeable as a couple of war buddies turned song and dance men, but it’s otherwise a bit of a turkey.

Cockle-o-meter: 183/1,000

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    icons pack Sun Oct 7 2012
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  • its called timeOUT london not time IN

    Disgruntled viewer Tue Dec 13 2011
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  • I'll have to admit I was having a little trouble drawing comparisons with "Die Hard", "White Christmas" and "A Charlie Brown Christmas" but there you have it, so may I Add "Make the Yuletide Gay" and leave it at that!

    Meredith Wisler Wed Jan 5 2011
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  • "cinematic equivalent of confessing that you spend your weekends throwing seal pups in front of trains" Oh, for god's sake, can TO please desist? This cynicism-dressed-in-satirical-hyperbole is just asinine, and reeks of a School magazine's rejected contributions (I edited the School mag back in my youth, and I know whereof I speak). Other posters on this thread have pointed out that TO's frequent, ongoing, and silly attempts at a sort of pseudo-highbrow laddishness means there is no space for serious reflection on the films themselves. John E. Orman points this out in his articulate and interesting mini-review of Alastair Sim's Scrooge; but I would like to ask Mr Orman to elaborate on the "Freudian subtext" of that movie, please.

    Godfrey Hamilton Thu Dec 30 2010
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  • The Bishop's Wife - a charmer!

    Andrew Tue Nov 30 2010
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  • An adult oriented Tinkerbell movie sounds fun to me......

    Matthew Tue Nov 30 2010
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  • Comic Book: Batman Returns

    John E. Orman Mon Nov 29 2010
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  • Cynicism is the rather pathetic spawn of an artificial intelligence: sorry that the writer's tedious self-indulgence eclipsed a more practical analysis of Christmas-related movies. Our favorite remains the '51 adaptation of A CHRISTMAS CAROL (aka SCROOGE); Alastair Sim plays the title character not as a miser but a tormented lost soul (hence, his redemption is all the more cathartic). The direction has been described as pedestrian but it circumvents any distraction from Sim's passionate--and extremely credible--performance. A Freudian subtext is appended to the screenplay (it works!) but, bottom line, there ain't a dry eye in the house at the film's conclusion--even if you have previously screened the film at least 50x. I should know. Kindly ignore all other translations of the Dickens fable as well as the colorized version of this classic.

    Arthur Jefferson Mon Nov 29 2010
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  • Action: The Long Kiss Goodnight

    Mego Mon Nov 29 2010
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  • Children: Jingle All The Way

    Kachi Mon Nov 29 2010
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