Instead, we want to dive straight into those cosseting 90s interiors and transport ourselves to another time and another place. That powerful, bittersweet rush of nostalgia is hard to beat and that’s why – for the same reason as we love a comforting Nora Ephron or Nancy Meyers flick – the best and most evocative Christmas movies will rarely be from the last decade.
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We’ve all got favourite Christmas films, usually, the ones we love from childhood when no one was looking at a phone screen and beloved friends and family are in the backdrop of our memories. MAY WE SUGGEST: Caroline Holdaway's dream Cotswold cottage
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Subject to where you register on the Richter scale of festive enthusiasm, you might be planning to start your Christmas movie viewing soon by easing in gently with a Sunday afternoon soft-launch – something cosy like Harry Potter or While You Were Sleeping – before building up to a Christmas Eve viewing crescendo of Elf and Home Alone.
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For those blissful 90ish minutes, it really is a wonderful life, and all you needed to realise it was a TV screen, a blanket and some cheese on a cracker. They’re where miracles happen, log fires roar, people realise their soul mate is the prime minister and it is always – always – snowing. There’s simply nothing as comforting or nostalgic as a Christmas film.
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When it’s raining outside, you haven’t had a meet-cute with your one true love and you’re sick of Michael Bublé, there’s a place you can retreat to where Christmas is just as perfect and evocative as it is in the movies. It’s a heavily subjective opinion but let’s go there anyway… Christmas films are one of the best things about Christmas.