The Worst Christmas Movies
Pop Culture Happy Hour
NPR
4.5 • 11.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
‘Tis the season you’ll find plenty of good holiday movies – films that can be counted upon to deliver warmth and cheer. And bad holiday movies? They can be fun in their own way. So we’re debating: what’s the worst Christmas movie of all time? We’ll talk about Love Actually, Jingle All The Way, I Believe In Santa, and Scrooge & Marley.
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| 0:19.7 | The holiday season means holiday movies, films that can be counted upon to deliver warmth |
| 0:24.9 | and holiday cheer, also probably some snow, a little bit of magic, and grumpy slash greedy |
| 0:31.0 | slash workaholic protagonists who need to be reminded of the true meaning of Christmas. |
| 0:35.8 | Good holiday movies can be great, but bad holiday movies? |
| 0:39.7 | They can be fun in their own way. |
| 0:41.4 | Maybe they serve up tired cliches or schmaltzy sentiment. |
| 0:45.1 | Or maybe, if it's love actually, they just do Emma Thompson really dirty. |
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| 0:52.3 | And I'm Glenn Weldon, and today we're debating the worst Christmas |
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