“A Christmas movie is like a Christmas song—you don’t want to listen to it except at Christmas.” Letterboxd co-founder Karl threw the cat amongst the pigeons when we sat down to figure out your 25 highest rated Christmas films for 2018.

So we made up some rules, duked it out for a week, and came up with this fine festive fare. Oh, you want to talk about Die Hard? You can do that here.