Tom Hollander, Idris Elba and Gabriel Byrne lead the all-star Oscars Animated Short nominee ‘The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse’ from Charlie Mackesy. Review by Joseph Wade.
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Even under the thumb of Disney rule and the passing of its creator, The Muppets produced a Christmas classic in ‘The Muppet Christmas Carol’ (1992). Review by Katie Doyle.
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Is Robert Zemeckis’s 2004 ‘The Polar Express’, starring Tom Hanks and Daryl Sabara, an uncanny valley nightmare or a Christmas classic? Review by Emily Nighman.
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To David Harbour’s rendition of Santa Claus in the delightfully subversive ‘Violent Night’ (2022), Christmas is about “getting violently drunk and kicking ass”. Review by Emi Grant.
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“Anyone feeling especially nostalgic for 2009 will have a field day” with Netflix’s “time machine flick” ‘Falling for Christmas’ (2022), starring Lindsay Lohan. Review by Emi Grant.
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Aardman Animation’s Netflix film ‘Robin Robin’ (2021), nominated at the Oscars in 2022 for Best Animated Short, is a quintessentially British film incomparable at any length. Review by Joseph Wade.
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Greta Gerwig’s ‘Little Women’ (2019) starring Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh and more, is the ultimate Christmas film, even if it’s arguably not even a Christmas film at all. Rehana Nurmahi explains.
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More shakeups at Lucasfilm as 'Peaky Blinders' creator Steven Knight