What’s your favorite holiday movie?

It’s the most wonderful time of the year: Let’s cozy up inside with our favorite movies. Whether you watch “Home Alone” every year or you insist “Die Hard” is actually a Christmas movie, our favorite movies can bring family and friends together for the holiday season and can be a source of comfort during the cold and dark winter. 

MPR News host Angela Davis talks with MPR’s Cube Critics, Euan Kerr and Samantha Matsumoto, about what makes a great holiday movie, their personal favorites and what else is on their end-of-year watch list. 

And we hear from our critics listeners about some of their favorite holiday movies. Here’s some of what listeners recommended:

• “It’s A Wonderful Life”

• “Gremlins”

• “Operation Christmas Drop”

• “The Hebrew Hammer”

• “Eight Crazy Nights”

• “Fiddler on the Roof”

• “Last Holiday”

• “The Bishop’s Wife,” and its remake, “The Preacher’s Wife”

• “The Muppet Christmas Carol”

• “Christmas in Connecticut”

• “Love Hard”

• “Single All The Way”

• “The Sound of Music”

• “Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol”

• “The Polar Express”

• “While You Were Sleeping”

• “The Lion In Winter”

• “Jingle Jangle”

• “Anna and the Apocalypse”

• The O.C.’s “Chrismukkah” episodes

• “Monsieur Hulot's Holiday”

• “Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas”

• “Black Christmas”

• “Harry Potter” series

• Seinfeld episode “The Strike,” which popularized Festivus

• “A Christmas Wish In Hudson”

Guests: 

• Euan Kerr is a correspondent for MPR News and the co-host of MPR’s Cube Critics.

• Samantha Matsumoto is an associate producer for MPR News with Angela Davis and co-hosts Cube Critics. 

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