147: A Merry Little Ex-Mas (2025)

Every year, Netflix kicks off the Christmas movie season with a little trifle of a rom-com that stars an actress whose name used to be commonly above the title in past decades. This year, it's Alicia Silverstone's turn in the formulaic "A Merry Little Ex-Mas," a tension-less comedy in which a married couple call it quits on their marriage, but decide to stay together, more or less, through the holidays. Does the script give Silverstone anything to do? Should we all have two Christmas trees up in our houses in case one of them catches fire? How is it that a real-life father and son have no father-and-son chemistry in a movie? All this, plus a Santa Beard rating for the Chet character and three more movies "You Must See Before Your Die. " Book movies covered: "The Traveling Players" (1975) "The Wicker Man" (1973) "An American Werewolf In London" (1981)

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147: A Merry Little Ex-Mas (2025) is an episode from Christmas Movies Actually by Collin Souter.

This episode is 01:21:23 long.

This episode was published on Nov 20, 2025.

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