Séamas O'Reilly: Five proper Christmas films to get past the holiday-movie deluge

"Last year, Entertainment Weekly listed 172 new Christmas movies across all platforms. Extrapolating this backwards in time, it’s likely that around 700 Christmas movies have been produced and released since December 2020."

Bruce Willis, in Die Hard: an actual Christmas film for actual Christmas people, says Séamas O'Reilly

A glance through the Hallmark Channel’s 2023 listings reveals that the market for Christmas movies is not so much booming, as continuing to blow up in a chain of controlled explosions.

This year, 42 brand new festive films will join the 38 it released in 2022 and the 40 it tallied in both 2021 and 2020. And that’s just Hallmark.