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A silent night of Christmas movies The themes of more recent holiday movies are largely of romance and family dysfunction, but Christmas films from a century ago are not as easily characterised. (Image: AP) Dozens of Hallmark-style holiday movies always about someone who’s lost the season’s spirit meeting and being changed by someone who brims with good cheer are plastered across streaming platforms at this time of the year. After the 2020 we have had though, this frothy American fare feels especially glib. The transition from one year to the next, while immaterial more or less, never fails to feel emotionally significant. It is when optimism comes knocking. But the wickedness of the past twelve months has been enough to turn even the most earnest amongst us into a version of Ebenezer Scrooge. So it feels right to turn to Dickens bleak and beautiful classic for help in turning bitterness into hope.

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