The best holiday movies to watch now on Peacock
Check out some old favorites and modern gems, and a couple of not-so-Christmasy yuletide fright fests
Film Lists Zack Handlen
(Clockwise from bottom left:) Black Christmas (screenshot), Love Actually (Universal Pictures), Miracle On 34th Street (screenshot), The Best Man Holiday (Universal Pictures) Graphic: The A.V. Club
Peacock may be the ingénue of the streaming landscape, but don’t underestimate their film selection—especially this holiday season. From old favorites (Miracle On 34th Street) to modern classics (Love Actually) to a handful of twisted Christmas tales (Black Christmas!), NBCUniversal’s fledgling TV service is a reliable source of what couch potatoes want Christmas season kicks into high gear. Read on for Peacock’s best holiday movies and The A.V. Club’s thoughts on each.
This list was updated on December 16, 2022.
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“Love, Actually”? Seriously? In this day and age?
It is, like, misogyny wrapped up in a used bit of Christmas wrapping paper; literally EVERY storyline features women-as-sex-holes or women-as-furniture, and the “cute” and “funny” bits absolutely aren’t.
A brief:
Love, Actually is fucking terrible. Even those involved with making it routinely apologize for it.
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I’m not clicking through this.But Black Christmas! Watch it if you’ve never seen it, and enjoy. Make sure it’s, you know, the original, not one of the several remakes. (2, 3? I can’t keep it straight.)We watch it every year as our last Christmas movie, right after Carol.Helloooooo?…It’s the moan-ah!