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Radio Times Film Guide

The best Christmas movies

Five festive films to make you feel warm, fuzzy and (in one case) frightened…

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It’s a Wonderful Life  (1946)

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This masterpiece from Frank Capra still has a lot to say about community spirit and is a film with much more to it than feel-good sentimentality. (more…)

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The Nightmare before Christmas  (1993)

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Only the deliciously demented imagination of Batman/Ed Wood director Tim Burton could have come up with such a dark vision of the holiday season. (more…)

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Miracle on 34th Street  (1947)

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This isn’t the benign remake with Richard Attenborough, but the marvellous original first shown in the UK as The Big Heart. (more…)

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The Muppet Christmas Carol  (1992)

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With Michael Caine as Scrooge, Kermit and Miss Piggy as the Cratchits, and Gonzo as Dickens, this is quite simply corking Christmas entertainment. (more…)

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White Christmas  (1954)

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This partial remake of the 1942 film Holiday Inn - the Bing Crosby movie that gave the world the Irving Berlin song White Christmas - provided Paramount with an opportunity to introduce its new screen process Vistavision.  (more…)

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