Holiday Movie Guide: Top Ten Popcorn Flicks
What’s a holiday movie? Something about Santa or getting wasted on New Year’s Eve? Nah. My loose interpretation is that behind every choice holiday movie is a voice singing, “Forget your troubles. Come on, get happy!” These babies are designed to lift sprits, not bring them down. Oscar intentions are allowed (True Grit, The Fighter), but they better come wrapped in a pretty package. Take Javier Bardem in Biutiful: He’s amazing as a dirt-poor father with a terminal illness and a deathly fear of abandoning his kids to their junkie mother. But is that the popcorn escapism you’re looking for after a big holiday dinner? Hardly. Here are 10 entertainments built to fill the holiday bill.
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