
all I want for Christmas: curated cinema holiday countdown #3
An Advent calendar of holiday movies to fulfill heartfelt desires.

An Advent calendar of holiday movies to fulfill heartfelt desires.

House of Cards as a satirical workplace comedy, with just a touch of rom-com thrown in to render it genuinely sweetly sexy. Theron and Rogen share palpable chemistry, both comic and romantic.

A female Christmas grinch is a nice touch for women’s representation, but having one of the three best buddies be a woman would have been even better still.

It’s bogged down by too many derailing tangents, but the three appealing leads have a wonderful chemistry, and it gets close to the spirit of the season.