Violent Night
Though I love a subversive Christmas movie, I missed Violent Night when it released last year, and it didn’t feel quite right (after overdosing on holiday-themed horror for all of December) to watch it when it hit streaming. So when the festive season rolled around this year, I seized my chance to see David Harbour do “Die Hard with Santa Claus,” with a fair amount of Home Alone tossed in, too, and it proved well worth the wait—and felt as timeless as the films it was paying ho-ho-homage to. – Cheryl Eddy
