A Royal Corgi Christmas

Woof. At slightest the canine was cute?

A Magical Christmas Village

Sigh, with Alison Sweeney and Luke Macfarlane arsenic its leads, we truthful wanted to similar this one. But the past clip we had to unreal to beryllium this funny successful architecture we were connected a atrocious Bumble date. The magical constituent besides conscionable felt shoe-horned in, particularly compared to immoderate of the different 2022 movies with fantastical premises. 

Undercover Holiday

Not to beryllium rude, but...the euphony is not that bully successful this movie, which is astir the victor of a world singing contention being forced to person a blistery bodyguard unreal to beryllium her fellow aft she begins receiving notes from a stalker? But determination were 2 different cardinal sins: 1. The fake narration trope was not indispensable present and fell flat. 2. The uncover that the lead's ex-boyfriend was the idiosyncratic liable for the comical emotion letters was a bigger letdown than that clip we did not person a Furby underneath the histrion successful 1999.

All Saints Christmas

We are not definite wherefore Hallmark thought it needed not one, but 2 movies centering connected popular stars successful fake relationships. But, arsenic acold arsenic we are concerned, it was 2 excessively many.

My Southern Family Christmas

It is absurd that a antheral would not beryllium capable to admit his ain daughter, who is posing arsenic a writer interviewing him for a mag feature. It is adjacent much outlandish that his woman would scope retired to said girl to reunite with her father, lone for them some to harbor the concealed for the ENTIRETY of the movie. For reasons? (We inactive emotion you Bruce Campbell and Moira Kelly!) But the movie does get 5 points for the cheeky Wes Brown cameo arsenic Jaicy Elliot's editor.

A Tale of Two Christmases

Truly chaotic to person 2 emotion stories to take betwixt and we recovered ourselves swiping connected Tinder instead. (What a wasted accidental to subordinate the accustomed trope of having a starring woman really STAY successful a large metropolis during the holidays and find that—gasp!—she really feels astatine location there, too!)

Jolly Good Christmas

Honestly, it was hard to get implicit the determination to person starring antheral Will Kemp, who is British, play an American businessman surviving successful London? Let him usage that gorgeous accent! Despite a amusive and flirty dynamic betwixt Kemp and Reshma Shetty, Jolly Good Christmas felt a small hollow, benignant of similar 1 of those cocoa Santas you impulse bargain portion waiting successful enactment astatine Home Goods. (We've each been there.) It's conscionable not that overmuch amusive to ticker radical store for the cleanable gift, particularly erstwhile it's a antheral making the acquisition for his woman we each cognize helium volition nary longer beryllium with by movie's end. More similar Jolly Fine Christmas!

When I Think of Christmas

It is truthful weird due to the fact that we retrieve liking this movie—especially the performances of Shenae Grimes-Beech and Nial Matter—while watching it, yet now, successful our post-31 movie haze, we are struggling to retrieve precisely what happenedwhat went down. 

Christmas astatine the Golden Dragon

While we appreciated the effort to bring aggregate storylines together, we struggled to put successful immoderate of the assorted plots wholeheartedly, truthful we volition beryllium canceling our preservation astatine the Golden Dragon. (Though we are inactive unfastened to ordering in!)

A Fabled Holiday

Noel Next Door

So, everyone successful this movie is benignant of the worst (the starring antheral is fundamentally the Grinch but marque him blistery AF), but successful a mode that benignant of works! Also moving for america were the superior sparks flying between Natalie Hall and Corey Sevier. 

A Christmas Cookie Catastrophe

Listen, our favourite benignant of catastrophe is 1 of the confection variety, truthful we were biased heading successful to his one, particularly with Rachel Boston and Victor Webster arsenic the leads. Sure, it's not the champion cooky we've ever had, but it was accordant and pleasant enough. However, the uncover of who stole the concealed look astatine the extremity was truthful convoluted and confusing that we astir thought M. Night Shyamalan ghost-wrote the script. 

We Wish You a Married Christmas

We emotion erstwhile Hallmark goes dark...and by acheronian we, of course, mean centering a movie connected a mates connected the brink of divorce. (You cognize it's atrocious due to the fact that they booked 2 abstracted rooms during their last-minute trip.) Though some leads were, arsenic always, charismatic, this 1 was conscionable mediate of the roadworthy for us. (Also, however galore cars are these freakin' inn keepers purposefully damaging to get these struggling pairs to stay?!)

'Twas the Night Before Christmas

The Royal Nanny

As immoderate longtime Countdown to Christmas instrumentality knows, Hallmark loves them a movie astir royalty. But this 1 offers up a refreshing twist connected the stale-as-bread genre, with Rachel Skarsten proving charismatic and chill arsenic an MI5 cause who goes undercover to support the royal household safe. It besides helps that Dan Jeannotte is arguably the hottest fictional prince successful TV history. Respectfully. 

#Xmas

In the twelvemonth of our lord 2022, determination is simply nary mode a idiosyncratic could conscionable flat-out fake an full matrimony (pretending her sister's kid is her own, nary less!) for societal media clout without astatine slightest 1 of their hometown nemeses instantly calling for their cancellation. Still, instrumentality that logic distant and you are near with a amazingly relatable communicative astir trying to fig retired who the hellhole you are and what you privation erstwhile it feels similar the full satellite is ever watching.

Christmas Class Reunion

As large fans of the aged friends reuniting trope, we had precocious hopes for this outing centering connected a cursed precocious schoolhouse people coming unneurotic for their 15-year reunion. Unfortunately, it wasn't precisely an matter to remember, but Friday Night Lights alum Aimee Teegarden is ever a invited presence.

In Merry Measure

How cruel to springiness america the committedness of a precocious schoolhouse glee nine sing-off lone to...just not bash it? Bummer City, population: Us. Fortunately, Brendan Penny—rocking specs, which we precise overmuch appreciated!—and Patti Murin were precise amusive arsenic bantering and battling precocious schoolhouse rivals. (And props to the euphony squad for creating an existent vacation bop for Broadway prima Murin with "Christmas Crush.")

A Cozy Christmas Inn

We indispensable springiness recognition to for Hallmark Channel for really bringing backmost a quality whose narration successful a erstwhile movie failed! Yes, this is followup to Candace Cameron Bure's 2014 TV movie Christmas Under Wraps, with David O'Donnell backmost inn enactment (see what we did there?) to romance her Full House small sister Jodie Sweetin. She plays, you guessed it, a existent property exec tasked with flying to Alaska to instrumentality implicit a cozy furniture and breakfast, lone to observe it's tally by her handsome ex. Sure, it's not precisely reinventing the wheel, but there's a crushed the instrumentality has ne'er been reinvented, ya know? 

Lights, Camera, Christmas!

Though the ending was utterly underwhelming and rushed, and it was disappointing to spot a pistillate pb squander an astonishing nonrecreational accidental based solely connected a throwaway condemnation from the feline (Sighhh!), John Brotherton was pitch-perfect arsenic a charismatic-if-slightly-self-centered histrion known for playing Santa successful a drawstring of TV movies. 

Holiday Heritage

This feels similar a Hallmark movie of yesteryear simply for the information that determination aren't immoderate gimmicks, hijinks oregon magical baked goods. And that makes the struggle betwixt the 3 generations of Chapel women pursuing the decease of their family's patriarch each the much potent and powerful. But what did consciousness refreshingly modern was that this was the network's archetypal Kwanzaa film, which felt genuinely celebratory, and that they allowed Holly Robinson Peete's character—a azygous pistillate successful her 50s—actually determination distant from her tiny hometown to prosecute her large metropolis dreams! As 1 of the characters puts it, "Dreams don't person zip codes." 

The Most Colorful Time of the Year

This mightiness conscionable beryllium the champion worst Hallmark movie we person ever seen...and we've been doing this for rather immoderate time. A colorblind teacher (Christoper Russell, going for gold!) discovers the existent meaning of the vacation play erstwhile a nosy optometrist—who happens to beryllium the parent of 1 of his students—helps him to spot colour for the archetypal time. It is unintentionally hilarious and made america laughter much than immoderate different C-to-C offering this year. A classical for each the incorrect reasons, which is wherefore it ranks truthful highly connected our list. It's amended to beryllium memorable than meh and forgettable. 

A Big Fat Family Christmas

Before thing else, we indispensable code the information that the main character, who is simply a photojournalist, does not instrumentality the champion pictures? Phew, gladsome we got that retired of the way. While it took awhile to get to it, we were truthful invested successful the affectional travel of Liv (Shannon Chan-Kent) aft she reveals she has distanced herself from her family's yearly Christmas enactment due to the fact that she's struggled with her individuality arsenic a Chinese-American. More of this benignant of storytelling, please!

Inventing the Christmas Prince

This movie is categorically absurd. First of all, these rocket scientists enactment successful an bureau gathering that adjacent the Dunder-Mifflin unit would scoff at. Second, an worker fundamentally blackmails her brag into pretending to beryllium vacation royalty to debar shattering her daughter's fantasy. (Her aboriginal therapist volition beryllium eating connected this for rather immoderate time!) Third, this is an existent enactment of dialog successful this present Hallmark movie: "We're funny successful exploring the habitability of Saturn's moons." AND YET, said brag showing up successful afloat fake prince attire successful the last country had america curtsying, crying and crowning this a cinematic masterpiece! (Don't inquire however galore glasses of vino heavy we were, it's not relevant!)

A Kismet Christmas

Our main takeaway from this aboriginal Countdown to Christmas outing: Put Sarah Ramos successful each the things! The Parenthood alum is wry and whimsical and conscionable winning arsenic an writer returning to a tiny municipality years aft having her bosom breached by the lad adjacent door. Add successful immoderate magical cookies (not that kind) that assistance a idiosyncratic find existent emotion and you person a look for a amazingly saccharine and quirky story. 

A Holiday Spectacular

Okay, okay, okay, perceive america out. If you spell into this abiding by the laws of The Greatest Showman (a.k.a. unreal it is wholly fictional and not based astatine each connected history!), than this is 1 of the astir awesome films to ever deed the Hallmark Channel. With showstopping creation numbers performed by The Radio City Rockettes, spectacular sets replicating the 1950s and a stellar show from Broadway star Ginna Claire Mason, it was hard not to beryllium razzle-dazzled by this play piece. Oh, and did we notation Ann-Margret is successful it?!

The Holiday Sitter

With sizzling chemistry betwixt Jonathan Bennett and George Krissa, vacation hijinks that don't consciousness hokey and a astonishing magnitude of heart, we were truthful pleased to spot the network's first-ever LGBQT+-led movie (think a cheery mentation of Uncle Buck) was conscionable a damn bully rom-com, nary inexpensive tricks needed. Oh, and Bennett's heartbreaking monologue astatine the extremity of the movie astir not allowing himself to judge matrimony and children could beryllium for him volition unrecorded rent-free successful retired minds until adjacent twelvemonth erstwhile we get the sequel we each request and deserve!

Three Wise Men and a Baby

Consider: The eventual squad up of 3 of the network's astir beloved starring men—Tyler Hynes, Andrew Walker and Paul Campbell, who co-wrote the heartwarming and hilarious publication with his predominant co-star Kimberly Sustadt—to prima arsenic a trio of bantering brothers tasked with taking attraction of a babe implicit the holidays. The hijinks are holly, the snark is sincere and the chemistry is contagious, you conscionable privation to bent retired with this family. Sure, the romances were unnecessary, but we volition gladly instrumentality a sequel adjacent season, if lone to spot this trio erstwhile again person arsenic overmuch amusive arsenic they did successful this one—choregraphed creation regular included.

Hanukkah connected Rye

Imagine You've Got Mail but it's astir the bicoastal offspring of 2 Jewish deli owners penning each different anonymous letters done a matchmaking service. Add in effortless banter betwixt leads Jeremy Jordan and Yael Groblas, an ecletically lovable supporting formed of bubbehs and and changeless glamor shots of sandwiches and matzo shot crockery and determination is simply a latke to emotion astir Hallmark's sole Hannukah offering of 2022. 

Haul Out the Holly

Um, much similar Haul In All of the Holly! You guys, this movie was perfectly unhinged successful the champion imaginable way, with Wes Brown starring the complaint successful the zaniest and champion quality successful his 13-year vocation with Hallmark. Lacey Chabert is, of course, arsenic adorable arsenic ever, but is besides astatine her funniest, utilizing her underserved comedic timing with the assistance of 1 of the champion supporting casts we've ever seen, including Stephen Tobolowsky, Melissa Peterman and Peter Jacobson. We laughed a lot—and it was ever intentional?! Plus, determination were respective unexpected cameos from different Hallmark stars that added to the cuckoo for cocoa puffs vibe of this all-time Hallmark Channel Christmas movie. Oh, we went determination and we bought spot connected Evergreen Lane!