However, I’m going to recommend one Netflix Christmas movie more than others, and no, it’s not Hot Frosty or any of the ones starring Lindsay Lohan. It’s PG-13 so you’ll want to send the younger kids to bed as it does get uh, pretty violent. It’s Carry-On, currently the number one movie on Netflix, and for good reason — it’s excellent.

Elf is the purest holiday movie there is—and by extension, probably the purest movie of all time. Maybe it’s because when I was a kid, my dream was to work as an elf at the gingerbread house at The Grove in Los Angeles (IYKYK),