What does your family like to do on Christmas?

We always went to the movies.

Like everything else on Christmas Day, they begin to mean something a little more…

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AndMeryl Streepis more than willing to commit to being The Witch in her moments both terrifying and pathos-inducing.

If you need a giant kick of blood-vomit-inducing poison in your eggnog, you just might loveThe Hateful Eight.

If you have a child, this film will make youweep.

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The pair begin the film striking up an unlikely friendship, with the lonely Dench especially instigating their camaraderie.

against unchecked capitalism plays like the answer to a dare.

Until he turns the screws and makes us furious again.

Samuel L. Jackson in The Hateful Eight

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Especially forthisHoliday season with the recent sad news thatWonder Woman 3will not be happening.

Wolf Creek (2005)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacrelensed with grimy 2000s HD urgency.

A surprising first-half emphasis on character development and even romance.

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A potent allegory on the unyielding strength of nature and the punishment we endure (deserve?)

Merry Christmas, I got youWolf Creek!

Ya gotta love a movie that so explicitly wants you to be a better person, ya know?

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ButDjango Unchainedstill remains a unique, idiosyncratic, wildly entertaining, and fiercely cathartic piece of agitprop genre cinema.

A wild, vital watch.

Why, then you’d have the 2009 Christmas Day take on the iconic detective.

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Cassandra Magrath in Wolf Creek

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Jamie Foxx in Django Unchained

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The Wolf of Wall Street