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Best Christmas Films Ranked by Reviews
The best Christmas films ranked by reviews: critics and audiences combined into one score out of 100, bias corrected. Classics, family films, rom-coms and Christmas horror.
The Spore Score is one number per film, out of 100: The Pros and The Punters combined, with each review site's habits ironed out. How the Spore Score works.
Christmas films ranked by Spore Score: classics, family films, rom-coms and Christmas horror. Each film's critic and audience scores are corrected for each review site's habits, then combined into one score out of 100.
Christmas films, best first
- #1 The Shop Around the Corner (1940): Spore Score 97
- #2 It's a Wonderful Life (1946): Spore Score 95
- #3 Meet Me in St. Louis (1944): Spore Score 95
- #4 Carol (2015): Spore Score 93
- #5 Miracle on 34th Street (1947): Spore Score 90
- #6 The Holdovers (2023): Spore Score 90
- #7 A Christmas Carol (1938): Spore Score 88
- #8 Scrooge (1951): Spore Score 87
- #9 Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (1970): Spore Score 87
- #10 Holiday Inn (1942): Spore Score 86
- #11 A Christmas Story (1983): Spore Score 85
- #12 Die Hard (1988): Spore Score 85
- #13 A Christmas Tale (2008): Spore Score 85
- #14 The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (2022): Spore Score 84
- #15 The Bishop's Wife (1947): Spore Score 81
- #16 Trading Places (1983): Spore Score 79
- #17 Arthur Christmas (2011): Spore Score 78
- #18 Gremlins (1984): Spore Score 78
- #19 Joyeux Noël (2005): Spore Score 77
- #20 Scrooge (1970): Spore Score 77
- #21 Alien Xmas (2020): Spore Score 76
- #22 Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010): Spore Score 76
- #23 Batman Returns (1992): Spore Score 75
- #24 Bad Santa (2003): Spore Score 75
- #25 Elf (2003): Spore Score 75
- #26 The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992): Spore Score 75
- #27 Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey (2020): Spore Score 74
- #28 8-Bit Christmas (2021): Spore Score 74
- #29 Twas the Night Before Christmas (1974): Spore Score 74
- #30 Happiest Season (2020): Spore Score 74
- #31 Better Watch Out (2016): Spore Score 73
- #32 Black Christmas (1974): Spore Score 72
- #33 Home Alone (1990): Spore Score 72
- #34 The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017): Spore Score 70
- #35 White Christmas (1954): Spore Score 69
- #36 Happy Christmas (2014): Spore Score 68
- #37 That Christmas (2024): Spore Score 66
- #38 Love Actually (2003): Spore Score 66
- #39 A Christmas Horror Story (2015): Spore Score 66
- #40 Prancer (1989): Spore Score 65
- #41 A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas (2011): Spore Score 65
- #42 The Santa Clause (1994): Spore Score 65
- #43 Violent Night (2022): Spore Score 65
- #44 This Christmas (2007): Spore Score 64
- #45 National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989): Spore Score 64
- #46 The Night Before (2015): Spore Score 64
- #47 Miracle on 34th Street (1994): Spore Score 63
- #48 Spirited (2022): Spore Score 63
- #49 Nestor the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey (1977): Spore Score 63
- #50 The Christmas Chronicles (2018): Spore Score 63
Recently released
- Ebenezer (2026): Spore Score 59
- Heartland (2026): Spore Score 58
- How to Rob a Bank (2026): Spore Score 50
- Beware Boiúna (2026): Spore Score 53
- Ramayana: Rise of a Legend (2026): Spore Score 74
- Mouse (2026): Spore Score 94
- Club Kid (2026): Spore Score 89
- Wild Horse Nine (2026): Spore Score 87
- Being Heumann (2026): Spore Score 70
- Jimmy (2026): Spore Score 60
- The Cat in the Hat (2026): Spore Score 58
- Ghost Soldier (2026): Spore Score 50
Coming soon: UK release dates
- Guarding Stars (2026), out 2026-11-18: no Spore Score yet
- Josephine (2026), out 2026-11-20: no Spore Score yet
- You Can See Everything (2026), out 2026-11-20: no Spore Score yet
- The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping (2026), out 2026-11-20: no Spore Score yet
- I Play Rocky (2026), out 2026-11-20: no Spore Score yet
- Steps (2026), out 2026-11-20: no Spore Score yet
- Best Pancakes in the County (2026), out 2026-11-20: no Spore Score yet
- Way of the Warrior Kid (2026), out 2026-11-25: no Spore Score yet
- Hexed (2026), out 2026-11-25: no Spore Score yet
- The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth (2026), out 2026-11-25: no Spore Score yet
- Hershey (2026), out 2026-11-25: no Spore Score yet
- Focker-in-Law (2026), out 2026-11-25: no Spore Score yet
Best films of 2026 so far
- NAZA (2026): Spore Score 100
- Possible Love (2026): Spore Score 95
- Barbara Forever (2026): Spore Score 94
- Minotaur (2026): Spore Score 94
- All of a Sudden (2026): Spore Score 93
- Hadestown: The Musical (2026): Spore Score 92
- The Odyssey (2026): Spore Score 92
- Wildwood (2026): Spore Score 92
- Fatherland (2026): Spore Score 89
- Queen at Sea (2026): Spore Score 89
- Project Hail Mary (2026): Spore Score 88
- Woman Unknown (2026): Spore Score 88
Fuzzy Top 100
- The Godfather (1972): Spore Score 98
- Citizen Kane (1941): Spore Score 98
- Schindler's List (1993): Spore Score 99
- Singin' in the Rain (1952): Spore Score 98
- Seven Samurai (1954): Spore Score 99
- Casablanca (1942): Spore Score 99
- Psycho (1960): Spore Score 98
- Spirited Away (2001): Fuzzy Score 96
- Rear Window (1954): Spore Score 98
- Vertigo (1958): Spore Score 97
- Parasite (2019): Spore Score 99
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962): Spore Score 97
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