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Festive Factor 95 out of 100: Christmas at its heart.Christmas films by year
The best 2010s Christmas films
Every Christmas film from the 2010s that we have scored, best Festive Factor first.
At a glance
We have scored 38 Christmas films from the 2010s. The highest by Festive Factor: Arthur Christmas (95), The Grinch (95) and The Christmas Chronicles (85). Certificates: 7 U, 6 PG, 2 12, 2 12A, 11 15, 6 18 and 4 with no UK certificate listed.
Ranked by Festive Factor
Highest ratified score first. A film still waiting for its ratified score comes after them.
The Grinch
The gentlest of the screen versions and the one most interested in why he is like that.
Festive Factor 95 out of 100: Christmas at its heart.
The Christmas Chronicles
Kurt Russell's Father Christmas carries this one.
Festive Factor 85 out of 100: Christmas at its heart.
Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger!
The sequel does what sequels of this kind do: more plot, more shouting, and rather less of the loose charm…
Festive Factor 82 out of 100: Christmas at its heart.
Nativity 3: Dude, Where's My Donkey?!
The third one, and the formula has thinned.
Festive Factor 82 out of 100: Christmas at its heart.
Krampus
A proper Christmas horror film, and a rare one where the Christmas part carries real weight.
Festive Factor 79 out of 100: A different kind of Christmas.
Get Santa
A scrappy British caper that spends more time in a prison than a grotto, and is better for it.
Festive Factor 69 out of 100: A different kind of Christmas.
Daddy's Home 2
A louder, broader sequel that swaps the first film's rivalry for a crowded family Christmas, and this time…
Festive Factor 64 out of 100: A different kind of Christmas.
Noelle
Anna Kendrick carries this, and she is very good at being keen in a way that never curdles.
Festive Factor 63 out of 100: A different kind of Christmas.
Last Christmas
A soft, drizzly London romcom with the George Michael songbook stitched through it, and more sincere than…
Festive Factor 62 out of 100: A different kind of Christmas.
Beethoven's Christmas Adventure
The seventh Beethoven film went straight to DVD, and it shows.
Festive Factor 61 out of 100: A different kind of Christmas.
The Man Who Invented Christmas
A film about writing A Christmas Carol, and at its best when it forgets the tinsel and watches a man panic.
Festive Factor 59 out of 100: A different kind of Christmas.
The Snowman and the Snowdog
Following The Snowman is an impossible job, and this sequel is wise enough not to try to beat it.
Festive Factor 56 out of 100: A different kind of Christmas.
The Star
The Nativity told from the stable floor up, and pitched squarely at small children.
Festive Factor 55 out of 100: A different kind of Christmas.
Slay Belles
A crowd-funded horror comedy that pits a retired, foul-mouthed Santa against Krampus on Christmas Eve, and…
Festive Factor 55 out of 100: A different kind of Christmas.
The Night Before
A stoner comedy that happens to fall on Christmas Eve, and it turns out fonder of the season than its…
Festive Factor 54 out of 100: A different kind of Christmas.
A Christmas Horror Story
A portmanteau of horror shorts cut together across one Christmas Eve, and like most anthologies it is only…
Festive Factor 54 out of 100: A different kind of Christmas.
The Princess Switch
Vanessa Hudgens plays a Chicago baker and the duchess who looks just like her, and the two swap lives for a…
Festive Factor 51 out of 100: A different kind of Christmas.
Rare Exports
Deadpan and properly strange, this is the Christmas film for anyone who always suspected the old folklore…
Festive Factor 51 out of 100: A different kind of Christmas.
The Knight Before Christmas
Vanessa Hudgens and Josh Whitehouse make this worth pressing play.
Festive Factor 49 out of 100: A different kind of Christmas.
Office Christmas Party
Christmas here is a deadline rather than a feeling: save the branch before the holidays or everyone is out.
Festive Factor 47 out of 100: A different kind of Christmas.
Love the Coopers
Four generations of one American family converge on a single Christmas Eve dinner, and every one of them is…
Festive Factor 47 out of 100: A different kind of Christmas.
Bad Santa 2
More than a decade on, Thornton puts the suit back on and the film mostly repeats the first one, only louder.
Festive Factor 47 out of 100: A different kind of Christmas.
Deathcember
Twenty-four horror shorts behind twenty-four Advent doors is a good idea, and the trouble is that you get…
Festive Factor 47 out of 100: A different kind of Christmas.
Once Upon a Time at Christmas
A slasher built on a carol: two killers in Santa and Mrs Claus costumes work through a snowy small town one…
Festive Factor 44 out of 100: A different kind of Christmas.
Mercy Christmas
A lonely office worker gets the Christmas invitation he has always wanted and finds out too late what the…
Festive Factor 43 out of 100: A different kind of Christmas.
Mother Krampus
Released here as 12 Deaths of Christmas, this is a micro-budget British folk-horror slasher, and despite the…
Festive Factor 43 out of 100: A different kind of Christmas.
A Cinderella Story: Christmas Wish
The fairy tale with the ball traded for a Christmas gala and the prince hidden inside a Santa costume, and…
Festive Factor 36 out of 100: A different kind of Christmas.
Red Christmas
A family Christmas reunion turns into a siege, and the film takes the reunion more seriously than you might…
Festive Factor 36 out of 100: A different kind of Christmas.
Anna and the Apocalypse
A Scottish zombie musical set in the run-up to Christmas, which sounds like a dare and mostly pays off.
Festive Factor 34 out of 100: A different kind of Christmas.
I Trapped the Devil
A small, patient horror film that borrows Christmas mostly for its lights.
Festive Factor 34 out of 100: A different kind of Christmas.
Christmas Cruelty!
A Norwegian no-budget slasher that spends an hour watching a group of friends drink, bicker and buy a tree…
Festive Factor 33 out of 100: A different kind of Christmas.
All Through the House
A slasher in a Father Christmas mask, made by people who clearly love the eighties originals and want you to…
Festive Factor 31 out of 100: A different kind of Christmas.
Black Mirror: White Christmas
The bleakest thing we cover, and one of the cleverest.
Festive Factor 26 out of 100: A different kind of Christmas.
Rise of the Guardians
More winter than Christmas, and it takes a while to notice.
Festive Factor 24 out of 100: A different kind of Christmas.
The Lodge
Christmas is the reason everyone ends up snowed in, and then the film strips it away piece by piece, which…
Festive Factor 23 out of 100: A different kind of Christmas.
Silent Night, Bloody Night: The Homecoming
A cheap Welsh slasher that gets more from its Christmas deadline than its budget suggests.
Festive Factor 21 out of 100: A different kind of Christmas.
Krampus Unleashed
A Christmas devil film that forgets about Christmas almost as soon as the credits stop.
Festive Factor 13 out of 100: A different kind of Christmas.Swipe for more films →