While I don’t normally like to start the year out on a negative note, I want to get the worst movie list out of the way so we can talk about the good movies this year! A lot of the movies this year weren’t bad, just boring. I’d hate to put them on the worst list for being boring. With that said, let’s get into the worst Christmas movies of 2024.

A ‘90s Christmas - When you link your movie to a specific decade, the viewers are looking for nostalgia. This movie only gives confusion.
Five Gold Rings - A mystery movie that completely fell apart by the second ring.
Christmas On The Alpaca Farm - This was a movie written by people who heard of alpacas but never actually saw one.
Tails Of Christmas - Never, ever make dogs the focus of your movie. It always ends up making your movie bad.
Mistletoe & Matrimony - I wasn’t sure about putting this on the list because it wasn’t completely terrible. Then I remembered the bride wanted to book a horse-drawn carriage at the last minute for a Christmas Eve wedding in Chicago.
Christmas By Candlelight - Bad script, bad plot, bad acting. There isn’t much more to say.
Christmas With The Singhs - This one wouldn’t have been on the list if the writers didn’t make the Singhs so unbearable. It’s possible to make a “sucky in-laws” movie without making them whiny babies.
Leah’s Perfect Gift - I almost rage-quit this movie. We need a sequel where Leah leaves the awful family before she marries their son and finds someone awesome who actually loves her.

Dishonorable Mentions:
Deck The Walls - While this movie wasn’t awful, the product placement was so bad and so in-your-face that it gets a dishonorable mention.
Sincerely, Truly Christmas - When the main female character acts like a child, it’s an immediate ‘no, thank you’ from me.

There you have it. These are the movies I thought were the worst this year. Let me know if you want a separate list for the movies I thought were the most boring. There were a lot of them! Coming up next: The BEST movies!

It has been a long time since a movie made me angry. Leah’s Perfect Gift made me so angry that I almost didn’t finish the movie. As a matter of fact, I had to stop watching it halfway through and take a break. This may be a long rant.

Leah (Emily Arlook) is a Jewish woman who is so excited to experience her first Christmas with her boyfriend, Graham’s (Evan Roderick), family. Much to her dismay, everything she does seems to upset Graham’s mother, Barbara (Barbara Niven). Is there any way Christmas can be saved?

Uuuuuggghhhh. I know this was supposed to be a “bad mother-in-law” type of movie. But Barbara isn’t Leah’s mother-in-law and, more importantly, this is the first time they are meeting. Barbara is so mean and vile to Leah and neither Graham nor his sister, Maddie (Sidney Quesnelle), stood up for Leah. They both basically shrug and say “Yep, Mom is like that!” And we’re talking STUPID stuff like “Mom doesn’t like it when people rip wrapping paper.” So absolutely everyone around her has to carefully pull apart the tape to open every single present. At no point does anyone say “Hey, she’s just excited to celebrate Christmas for the first time. Let’s give her a little leeway to our insane traditions.”

The worst part of all of this is Leah is still so gracious and amazing toward everyone, no matter how awful they are to her. At the end, Barbara is having some sort of mental breakdown in a coat closet and it’s LEAH that goes in to comfort her. If I was Leah, I would tell that woman to eat rocks and I would definitely not accept her lame apology. Barbara does not deserve forgiveness.

I really wanted this to be Hallmark’s one cool Hanukkah movie this year. I seriously hope that this is not it. Because, even though we got a kickass Hanukkah party in the beginning - where Leah’s parents ACCEPTED Graham and taught him some of their traditions - this was not a Hanukkah movie. Do better, Hallmark.

Rating: Burn it down with a menorah