The ultimate festive film? No, it’s not Die Hard | Hadley Freeman

A true Christmas movie must adhere to the following scientific, mathematical and logical rulesCome Christmas, I can sit back quietly while others make loud arguments about how Home Alone/Die Hard/Love Actually is the ultimate Christmas movie – but that is only because I have knocked myself into a chocolate coma and no longer have the strength to argue with fools.

Because the fact is, all of those annually, if bafflingly, popular suggestions are wrong.

A true Christmas movie must adhere to the following scientific, mathematical and logical rules:1 It can’t just be set at Christmas, it has to be about Christmas.

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