Which Netflix Christmas movies are better than the Christmas Log?

Among the holiday offerings available on Netflix are several versions of Christmas fires – digital fireplaces that run for hours, crackle satisfactorily, and do everything a fire should do, except actually warm you. Netflix also has an impressive collection of its own Christmas movies that compete with these protocols for the display of holidays. What should you look at?

To sort it all out, we’ve given all the Netflix original Christmas films an in-depth investigation and asked about the individual films: is it better than a digital Christmas log?

We have divided each movie into four components. 1) What is the movie about? 2) What does not a Christmas protocol have? 3) What makes a Christmas log better? And 4) On a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being the most Christmassy), how high is the score for the Christmas mood?

Santa, baby. Michael Gibson / Netflix

The Christmas chronicles

What is it?
The Christmas chronicles imagine a world in which Santa Claus is not just a happy, happy old elf. Sure, he has gray hair and a beard on his skinny chin, but Kurt Russell’s portrayal of Santa Claus is much more masculine. He is hip, borderline bold and full of almost unpleasant sexuality. That does not stop him from helping siblings Kate and Teddy Pierce, who lost their heroic father a few years ago, to rediscover the magic of the season.

What does not a Christmas protocol have?
Kurt Russell seems brighter here than any protocol you’ll find on Netflix. Aside from his portrayal of “Santa is back in town,” it’s an inspired performance that makes every face in the family room smile.

What makes a Christmas log better?
While a good portion of The Christmas Chronicles claims to play in Chicago, Illinois, little looks other than the recordings, like the city of the big shoulders. In contrast, the Christmas holiday gives enough warmth to help people spend a dark, stormy evening along the cold third coast of our country.

What is the Christmas mood?
6.9. * lowers the sunglasses * Nice. – Charlie Hall

Eliza Taylor as Ellen in Christmas Inheritance.Netflix

Christmas inheritance

What is it?
Christmas Inheritance was overshadowed by The Christmas Prince (both premiered in 2017), which is unfortunate because Christmas Inheritance governs. It’s Netflix’s attempt to reach the pinnacle of form – the Hallmark Christmas movie – and Netflix has made it. Ellen is a rich heir to a “gift shop” that has to hand over a Christmas card to her father’s retired business associate in Snow Falls (one of the most beautiful movie-makers of all time) without spending any money or money. Let anyone in Snow Falls know who she is is. Even though she has a common fiancé at home, Ellen falls in love with Snow Falls’ good-natured but scruffy host, played by Obvious Child’s Jake Lacy, after teaching her how to demonstrate basic human empathy.

What does not a Christmas protocol have?
Andie MacDowell !!

What makes a Christmas log better?
While both Christmas Inheritance and a Yule Log video emanate a warm, familiar glow that is meant to lure the viewer into an eggnog-induced sleep, Jake Lacy’s approachable beauty may be too distracting.

What is the Christmas mood?
8. The formula “Big City Grinch meets Christmas Hunk” is not without reason a classic. Do not think too much about it. – Emily Heller

Christmas plus a Prinz.Netflix

A Christmas prince

What is it?
It is a standard: “Journalist pretends to be a tutor to meet the royal family of a country that does not exist in real life and that unintentionally falls in love with a prince she does not originally like until she learns that he has a nice side “story. Think Princess Diaries, but the head woman has a little more agency. Remember Call of Duty, but instead of inventing a false land to evade politics, they do so for Christmas and also to avoid politics.

What does not a Christmas protocol have?
The late king hides an incredibly important legal document in a Christmas ornament. This is not only a terribly irresponsible decision for a monarch, but also a hellish one. A Christmas log probably hides no secrets in it.

What makes a Christmas log better?
Sometimes a Christmas tree crackles and pops in a surprising and unexpected way. There is nothing surprising and unexpected about A Christmas Prince.

What is the Christmas mood?
9. This is the film equivalent to eggnog: traditional, too sweet and a little too much for any other season. But damn, if it does not feel good to eat it at least once during the holidays. – Brian David Gilbert

What’s this? A second Christmas prince movie? Netflix

A Christmas prince: the royal wedding

What is it?
It’s a Christmas prince, but the second and not so good.

What does not a Christmas protocol have?
There’s a nasty company called “The Glockenspiel Consortium,” which is also a big name for a math rock band.

What makes a Christmas log better?
In this entry in the Christmas Prince universe, the main enemy is the economy. This is not just a boring villain, but also an incredibly ambitious concept that can be tackled in a cheesy Christmas movie. A Christmas Protocol will never attempt to treat concepts that go beyond its scope.

What is the Christmas mood?
5. It’s Christmas. Please do not let me think of the bigger effects of the monarchy and the economy of a wrong country. -BDG

Say cheese! Netflix

The holiday calendar

What is it?
It’s Netflix’s first foray into the (Christmas) magical realism à la Christmas Carol and It’s A Wonderful Life. In The Holiday Calendar, Abby’s grandfather gives her a magical advent calendar that predicts the future cryptically. Each day reveals a new object connected to something that happens later in the day. (For example: The calendar shows a toy soldier, and later that day the daughter of love interest plays a toy soldier in her school’s Christmas pageant.) It seems she points out the pretty, charming single parent, but (spoiler alert! )) Abby has her pretty, charming best friend instead.

What does not a Christmas protocol have?
The grandfather of This is Us plays the grandpa in The Holiday Calendar and he’s just the best.

What makes a Christmas log better?
A Christmas holiday can be romantic, and though the holiday calendar has some attractive people in the lead roles kissing, it’s not really that romantic.

What is the Christmas mood?
7. It is charming, but should have devoted more of its magic. I want to damn a mall Santa Claus, who knowingly squints into the camera and disappears into a pile of glitter! – Uh

A Christmas fairy tale moment. Netflix

The princess switch

What is it?
It’s the prince and the beggar, but it plays Vanessa Hudgens twice. And one of Vanessa Hudgenses has a rather dubious British accent. And then there’s a scene where the chic Vanessa Hudgens teaches the baker Vanessa Hudgens how to speak with her dubious British accent, and the baker Vanessa Hudgens has to speak with an even sharper British accent, and that’s the pinnacle of action, Infant.

What does not a Christmas protocol have?
Towards the end of this movie, the characters A Christmas Prince look at Netflix. What does that mean for the larger Netflix Canon? Do other Christmas figures watch The Princess Switch in their spare time? In one scene, they succeed in ripping the fabric of fiction in Netflix films. A Christmas holiday could never be.

What makes a Christmas log better?
Creating a Christmas log will not stop you from singing Vanessa Hudgens on the High School Musical soundtracks, so you’re really watching this movie.

What is the Christmas mood?
8. At the end of the film, they were able to hold a competition in the style of the Great British Baking Show, which I like to see during the holidays. This makes this movie the most efficient “Christmas Cheer Per View” movie on this list. -BDG

What is more Christmassy than an elephant? Netflix

Holiday in the wild

What is it?
Kristen Davis plays a nester-empty and recently divorced woman traveling alone to Africa on her second honeymoon. (The exact African country, Zambia, is mentioned only once or twice, usually referred to as “Africa.”) Rob Lowe plays the rugged bush pilot who stops to help an orphaned baby elephant as he takes her to a resort flies. Kristin Davis decides to stay in the elephant sanctuary to “help” (she used to be a veterinarian) and, of course, fall in love with Rob Lowe.

What does not a Christmas protocol have?
Many shots of cute elephant babies.

What makes a Christmas log better?
The tree trunk and the fire have a more romantic chemistry than Rob Lowe and Kristin Davis.

What is the Christmas mood?
As a film: 0. As a scam to condemn rich white ladies to donate all their money to elephant sanctuaries: 10th -EH

Take me to Christmas! Brooke Palmer / Netflix

The knight before Christmas

What is it?
A medieval knight gets into the present, exactly in the life of the recently single teacher Vanessa Hudgens. She does not believe in true love or time travel, but her literal knight in shining armor could change that.

What does not a Christmas protocol have?
Josh Whitehouse is an eye-gentle knight with a refreshing lack of fear. No one is mean or trying to get in the way of the protagonist, and the knight is already perfect. He does not have to learn to be considerate or less arrogant, and he has not been turned into an animal for his transgressions. He is perfect!

Why is a Christmas log better?
The knight before Christmas is predictable. A Christmas log is also predictable, but this is part of the appeal of the Christmas log.

What is the Christmas mood?
4. It’s festive, but the only part of the movie that really has anything to do with Christmas is a subplot. – Karen Han

Hurray, Christmas! Netflix / Steve Wilkie

let it Snow

What is it?
Let It Snow is an ensemble piece about a group of teenagers in rural Illinois who meet in the local waffle house for a kegger. Dora is the discoverer and Sabrina the teenage witch and Joan Cusack, played by Ted Kaczynski. Aside from all the jokes, it’s a thoroughly modern version of upscale Hallmark classics like “The Holiday and Love Actually.” The star of the show here is actor Liv Hewson, whose portrayal of the in love Dorrie adds a heartwarming, peculiar action to the Netflix vacation pantheon.

What does not a Christmas protocol have?
Young people. Dozens of teens doing teenage things. Teenagers on roofs. Teenagers in churches. The movie is just lazy with people under 20 years old. Frankly, he is not an adult.

What makes a Christmas log better?
I mentioned Joan Cusack above. While I worship her in general, she spends most of this movie mumbling in aluminum foil. It’s hard to call her appearance in this film anything else than superfluous. In contrast, the Christmas log is essential.

What is the Christmas mood?
8, for the number of beautiful and diverse teens on the cover. -CH

Santa is big now. Netflix

Klaus

What is it?
A Santa Origin story, but with a realistic twist. Jesper (Jason Schwartzman), a spoiled postman, is sent to the desolate northern city of Smeerensburg to set up a postal service. He quickly realizes that the city is embroiled in a fierce feud, so sending letters is the last thing you want to do. An accidental meeting with lone woodcutter Klaus (J.K. Simmons) causes Jesper to orchestrate a system in which children write letters asking for toys. That’s how Santa Claus is born.

What does not a Christmas protocol have?
Klaus is traditionally animated, but uses advanced lighting and texturing technologies to give the entire film a lush storybook feel that looks like it’s been taken straight from an artbook. Also J.K. Simmons as Santa!

Why is a Christmas log better?
A Christmas record will not make you cry when Klaus tells what happened to his wife, or when the city’s kids start to put aside their feuds and improve the world, or when the little Sami girl wakes up to a brand new sled in front of her tent. A Christmas log will not stay in your head and make you rip up when you ask a co-worker to write about it.

What is the Christmas mood?
10, because I think of the moment when Jesper and the schoolteacher Alma (Rashida Jones) enter the main square and everything is decorated and everyone is happy and oh no, I’m fine, it’s just allergies. – Petrana Radulovic

El Camino but not the Breaking Bad movie.Netflix

El Camino Christmas

What is it?
Perhaps the most incomprehensible Christmas movie Netflix has ever released, El Camino Christmas, is referred to as a “black comedy” that challenges both Christmas and the concept of comedy. Various threads come together in a so-called conspiracy: A single mother with a selectively mute child works in a grocery store; A mysterious stranger comes to town to search for his father, who is depressingly played by Tim Allen (which should be a twist, but it is so obvious that it hardly warrants a spoiler alert). Dax Shepard plays a good cop for Vincent D’Onofrio. (Side note: D’Onofrio struggles for about 40 percent and is still in the circle of everyone else.) Jessica Alba is also a pregnant reporter.

Christmas in El Camino ends with a police boost in the above supermarket on Christmas Eve. I have seen the whole movie and still can not really explain how everyone gets there.

What does not a Christmas protocol have?
It’s technically a movie.

What makes a Christmas log better?
A Christmas holiday is happy, warm and comforting. El Camino Christmas is none of this.

What is the Christmas mood?
0. It is in the desert and therefore does not even profit from celebrating Christmas. It’s not smart enough to be insulting, and not serious enough to be charming. – Uh

Make a set for Christmas! Netflix

holiday rush

What is it?
Radio DJ and single father Rush Williams (Romany Malco) lose their job just before Christmas. In order to make ends meet, he and his four spoiled children have to scale down. They move in with his aunt Jo, played by the incomparable Darlene Love. He and his producer, Roxy (Sonequa Martin-Green), decide to buy the radio station they start broadcasting on and promise to play the music that company suits do not allow, like the hugely popular “Christmas in Hollis “But the manager of their former station is trying to sabotage the launch. In addition, Rush talks to the ghost of his dead wife, and she says it’s all right he is snogging on Roxy.

What does not a Christmas protocol have?
The ever-adorable Sonequa Martin-Green, surprisingly witty jokes for a Netflix Christmas movie and Darlene Love, who absolutely kills “Christmas (baby, come home, please)”.

What makes a Christmas log better?
In some places in the film, Romany Malco recites a Night Before Christmas-style poem about the family and it is never really recognized. Most Christmas records do not have that.

What is the Christmas mood?
9. Holiday Rush proves that hiring talented, talented actors who have a real chemistry together can produce generic material. (This is a partial tweet from Holiday in the Wild.) -EH

The hottest Christmas party of all time. Netflix

Very Murray Christmas

What is it?
A one-hour Christmas musical directed by Sophia Coppola starring Bill Murray, Maya Rudolph, Chris Rock, Michael Cera, Amy Poehler, Jason Schwartzman and Rashida Jones, as well as musicians Miley Cyrus and Jenny Lewis. David Johansen of the New York Dolls and Phoenix. Bill Murray plays a fictitious version of himself, which has been profoundly plagued by the decision to host a chic live holiday special from a posh Manhattan hotel on Christmas Eve. When a blizzard kills the power, annuls the special and catches Murray, he goes in search of the Christmas spirit – mostly in the hotel bar.

What does not a Christmas protocol have?
A very Murray Christmas creates a bubbly (and a bit bitter) drink for adults from the contradictory emotions of the Christmas season. Sure, it exudes the obligatory upbeat Christmas cheer, but it rests on a sadness deeper than an oceanic ditch. The Netflix Special highlights the very human tendency to think about one’s life at the end of each year. How did I come here?

The affluent characters in Coppola’s films can be read as thankless grief bags that forget the luxuries they pampered like a warm blanket. But that’s why I appreciate her work and especially this movie. A decadent hotel room and glamorous Hollywood friends guarantee no luck. In fact, luxury is a distraction, a false consolation. Happiness, the film suggests, is something we have to choose to open ourselves to – every day, at Christmas or in some other way. Happiness is not bought. It is claimed.

What makes a Christmas log better?
The gradual, senseless burning of a Christmas trunk is more vivid than the first 10 minutes of this movie. I would not say that you should skip the intro in which an exhausted Murray sneaks around a beautiful hotel suite, but perhaps you use this time to run into the kitchen and prepare hot cocoa with extra marshmallows. When you hear Michael Cera playing the role of a Hollywood speaking agent, you’ll know that you need to sit back on the couch.

What is the Christmas mood?
5. A very Murray Christmas is not as cynical as Murray’s other holiday movie Scrooged or as sweet as Netflix’s countless Hallmark imitations. It’s just right. It’s my ideal movie for 9pm on Christmas Day, when I feel like Christmas, but I know that the long winter season is only hours away. -Chris Plante

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