Slideshow World for Tuesday December 22, 2020

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Broadcast and cable networks will be replaying some of the same festive films and television specials year after year, with families sitting together sipping hot chocolate by the fireplace while watching these classics. But not all films are about family and joy, with many films involving Christmas touching on a wide variety of different genres. Christmas films like “Elf” are fun family comedies, while some films like the horror movie “Black Christmas” take a completely different approach and use Christmas imagery in a very different context. Some films are less sentimental and family-centric, focusing instead on authenticity in depicting the conflicts between family members. Other films are about an entirely different subject matter while taking advantage of Christmas as a backdrop for their distinct imagery and broad themes of family and unity. To help people sort through the many holiday movies out there, Stacker compiled Metacritic data on all Christmas movies and ranked them according to their Metascore (out of 100). Any ties are broken by IMDb user scores (out of 10). To qualify, each film had to be identified as a Christmas movie by critics at significant publications, with at least four reviews from those publications. At Stacker, we recognize that genre is meant to help describe and communicate the tone and style of a film, not to serve as a limiting factor on what films can and cannot be. There are no hard and fast lines that define Christmas movies, and we think leaning into more open interpretations of what fits into certain genres is best practice for getting a pool of films that represent all possible expressions of a particular genre. Every film on the following list has been considered according to the cinematic history and development of Christmas movies. Keep reading to learn about the very best in the genre. 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Throw in a global pandemic and the demand for streaming content soars even higher, so much so that WarnerMedia plans to release a number of its upcoming tentpoles to streaming through HBO Max. Ideal for home viewers perhaps, but Christopher Nolan would like a word. As anyone with a streaming subscription can attest, the ever-expanding deluge of TV shows and movies has created something of an overwhelming ecosystem. Choice is everywhere, but separating the good from the bad has never been more difficult than it is at this very moment. Quality films sit next to mediocre ones on the Netflix queue and that can make everything seem equal parts watchable and disposable. One might even suggest that 2020 was the year where generally bad films were better than usual and generally good films were worse. Did the year still bring forth its respective tiers of pure junk and reputable prestige? Of course it did, but they seem to exist on the outer fringes of the spectrum. Most of the truly terrible films have but a few hundred IMDb ratings, making them so negligible that they might as well not exist at all. By extreme contrast, the year’s most acclaimed movies—at least the ones released so far—rarely strike a genuine crowd-pleasing chord. David Fincher’s “Mank” might be a critical darling (more or less), but average viewers would probably rather watch “The Social Network” for the third time instead. So where does that leave things? Well, somewhere in the middle. That is to say, this year’s “worst” films with over 1,000 votes on IMDb are actually more watchable than usual. Most of them look downright professional in terms of production value, representing a far cry from the turkeys of yore. That’s not to mention the presence of genuine talent both in front of and behind the camera—movies like “The Glorias” and “Ava” leap to mind. In fact, mere contrivance is the most common accusation levied against a number of the year’s worst films, as is a lack of narrative cohesion. For those sitting bored at home during lockdown, some of these reportedly terrible movies might be perfectly entertaining. Stacker thus presents the 100 worst movies of 2020. To create the list, Stacker compiled data on all 2020 movies to come up with a Stacker score—a weighted index split evenly betweenIMDb andMetacritic scores—ranking the bottom 100 from bad to worst. To qualify, the film had to have an IMDb score, Metascore, and at least 1,000 votes. Ties were broken by Metascore and further ties were broken by IMDb user rating. 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