The 25 best Christmas movies | Film Weekly

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Support the Guardian Support us   Fund independent journalism with £5 per month Spotlight ‘It will always be less hellish than the reality’   Why cinema keeps returning to the Holocaust Three new films attempt to address the Holocaust. But can cinema ever hope to adequately confront humanity’s darkest chapter? ‘This is not about the past, it’s about now’   Jonathan Glazer on his holocaust film The Zone of Interest Picks of the week Ranked   The 25 best Christmas films How we made   ‘Robert De Niro prepared to play a plumber by watching a brain surgeon’: Terry Gilliam and Jonathan Pryce on making Brazil Ava DuVernay   ‘We need to wake up. We’re less than a year away from a transition of power’ Julianne Moore   ‘Like every other woman in the world, I do ceramics’ Elf interest: why the Christmas favourite is actually a chilly lesson in capitalism Stuart Heritage Shirley Anne Field: a smart and seductive key player in the British New Wave Peter Bradshaw Peter Bradshaw's film of the week Monica   Trace Lysette superb as painful homecoming heals family wounds Lysette is excellent as a young woman returning home to care for her dying mother in Andrea Pallaoro’s intelligently crafted film Reviews Band Four   Hong Kong goes indie as musical family get the band back together The Three Musketeers: Milady   More plotting, fighting and galloping derring-do The Lost Boys   Passionate and political youth-prison love story Godzilla Minus One   Rageful monster is one of the best in the series A Black Jesus   Religious rites and refugees collide in Sicilian village We recommend Under the Skin   Very freaky, very scary, very erotic Jonathan Glazer's sci-fi horror-flick, starring Scarlett Johansson as an extraterrestrial roaming Glasgow in a white van, picking up men, is visually stunning and deeply disturbing Get in touch If you have any questions or comments about any of our newsletters please email [email protected] For your consideration Best Documentary Short Film A Mouthful of Petrol A shared passion for banger racing, a rough style of racing in self-built cars, becomes the catalyst for parental lessons when racing hero Wayne mentors his 12 year old son Jai-Dee toward his debut race. This coming of age documentary reframes performances of masculinity. Watch now    Manage your emails | Unsubscribe | Trouble viewing? You are receiving this email because you are a subscriber to Film Today. Guardian News & Media Limited - a member of Guardian Media Group PLC. Registered Office: Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9GU. Registered in England No. 908396