Revisit the Christmas movies of 2025! Browse all our holiday movie reviews from the season, see which ones earned a spot on our favorites list, and discover a few you might have missed along the way.

The Christmas Baby [Hallmark]

Rating: 🎄🎄🎄 Premiere Date: December 21, 2025 Description: When a baby boy shows up on their doorstep days before Christmas with a note written specially for them, Erin (Liebert) and Kelly (Barrell) must learn how to navigate their new relationship and career dynamics while unexpectedly caring for a newborn. As…

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Chasing Christmas [Great American]

Rating: 🎄🎄🎄 Premiere Date: December 21, 2025 Description: In Chasing Christmas, when a Christmas wishes tree brings together morning show host Michael (Donovan) and artist/designer, Mia (Murray), they set out on a holiday mission to make a child’s Christmas dreams come true. Teaming up with Michael’s daughter, Daphne, and Mia’s son,…

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A Make or Break Holiday [Hallmark]

Rating: 🎄🎄🎄 Premiere Date: December 20, 2025 Description: Liv and Daniel are hosting their families for the first time this Christmas and stress is at an all-time high. When unspoken irritations within their relationship finally reach a boiling point, Liv and Daniel find themselves at odds and decide they need…

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A Pickleball Christmas [Lifetime]

Rating: 🎄🎄🎄 Premiere Date: December 20, 2025 Description: After a career-defining win, tennis star Luke Hollis returns to Florida for Christmas to team up with Caroline, a pickleball coach, in a tournament to save his family’s racquet club, finding love and family as his true triumph. Overall: This is one…

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Another Sweet Christmas [Great American]

Rating: 🎄🎄 Premiere Date: December 20, 2025 Description: When Sophie (Bure) and Sam (Mathison) see their own love story turned into a Christmas movie, their small hometown of Waynesbridge, Washington, transforms into a real-life holiday film set. But as the spotlight grows brighter, the couple must navigate the pressures of…

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Sweet Holiday Romance [Lifetime]

Rating: 🎄🎄🎄🎄 Premiere Date: December 19, 2025 Description: Amanda, a world-renowned pastry chef, is worried she’s losing her edge. Wanting to re-claim her title as the queen of Christmas cookies, she enters the Chicago Christmas Market Christmas Cookie Competition. Overall: Okay, this one wasn’t bad. My only complaint here was…

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A Royal Christmas Tail [Great American]

Rating: 🌲 Premiere Date: December 14, 2025 Description: A Royal Christmas Tail, starring Jonathan Stoddard and Brittany Underwood, Original Linear Premiere, Great American Family and GFAM+. When a dashing prince trades a glass slipper for a dog tag, he embarks on a heartwarming Christmas quest to find the mysterious woman…

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Oy to the World [Hallmark]

Rating: 🎄🎄🎄🎄 Premiere Date: December 14, 2025 Description: When water lines break at Temple Beth Am, it leaves its members in need of a place to celebrate Hanukkah. Across the street, St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church is quick to open its doors and offer shared space for the holidays. With the…

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Rodeo Christmas Romance [Lifetime]

Rating: 🎄🎄🎄 Premiere Date: December 13, 2025 Description: When a fiercely independent equestrian finds herself ranch-sitting for a friend while caring for her injured horse over Christmas, she clashes with a brooding veteran. Overall: The plot of this one was good, but everything felt a bit like a caricature of…

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Have We Met This Christmas [Great American]

Rating: 🌲 Premiere Date: December 13, 2025 Description: In Have We Met This Christmas?, when ambitious real estate executive, Katie Sloane (McKellar) awakens at The Merry Mountain Inn with amnesia after a car accident, she is embraced by the resort’s warm holiday spirit and the family who owns it – especially the…

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Thank God: Christmas at Keller Ranch [Lifetime]

Rating: 🎄🎄🎄🎄 Premiere Date: December 13, 2025 Description: Injured pro-hockey player Wes Campbell turns to equine therapy at Keller Ranch in Nashville, where he meets rancher Maggie Keller, leading to unexpected healing and a holiday romance. Overall: Okay, I’ll start by saying that I’m giving this one four trees even…

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A Suite Holiday Romance [Hallmark]

Rating: 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄 Premiere Date: December 13, 2025 Description: It’s Christmas week when Sabrina Post, arrives at the iconic Grand Fairbanks Hotel in New York City, ready to accept the ghostwriting position for the memoir of Grayson Westcott – a famous art dealer. As a struggling writer, Sabrina can’t believe her…

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Christmas in Alaska [Lifetime]

Rating: 🎄🎄🎄 Premiere Date: December 12, 2025 Description: Rival journalists competing for the same lucrative promotion get stuck together in snowy Alaska after their plane is forced to make an emergency landing. Overall: This one landed squarely in the average range. The chemistry with the leads was adequate but not…

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A Runaway Bride for Christmas [Lifetime]

Rating: 🎄🎄🎄🎄 Premiere Date: December 12, 2025 Description: When a runaway bride seeks refuge in the only town she’s ever called home, she unexpectedly falls for her former high school crush—who’s hiding his own heartbreak. Overall: This one surprised me. I didn’t expect something about a runaway bride to turn…

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She’s Making a List [Hallmark]

Rating: 🎄🎄🎄🎄 Premiere Date: December 6, 2025 Description: Falling on Santa’s Naughty or Nice list used to be a call made by Santa and his elves. But with the number of kids worldwide skyrocketing, Santa has outsourced the job to the Naughty or Nice Group, a consulting firm that has…

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Deck the Hallways [Lifetime]

Rating: 🎄🎄🎄 Premiere Date: December 6, 2025 Description: In “Deck the Hallways,” Zoe, played by Naika Toussaint, is a tech executive from the Bay Area who returns to her hometown in Chicago for the holidays. She discovers that her grandmother, Agnes (played by Loretta Devine), has canceled the beloved Christmas party that her late husband used to host. Missing the warmth and joy of her childhood traditions, Zoe teams up with her childhood crush, Jace (Jaime M. Callica), and their neighbors to revive the festive celebration. As they work together, they rediscover the magic of community and the spirit of Christmas, all while navigating the challenges of rekindling old flames and keeping traditions alive.  Overall: This one was surprisingly enjoyable. Loretta Devine usually annoys me, but I liked her character in this one. Her over-the-top acting worked for who she was supposed to be. The story got me choked up a couple of times. Add…

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Single on the 25th [Hallmark]

Rating: 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄 Premiere Date: December 7, 2025 Description: For Nell Duke (Fonseca), nothing is worse than being single at Christmastime because everywhere she looks, couples are kissing under the mistletoe. After her family cancels holiday plans at the last minute, Nell decides to spend the week of Christmas having fun…

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Christmas at Mistletoe Manor [Great American]

Rating: 🎄🎄🎄 Premiere Date: December 7, 2025 Description: When Alice, a spirited East Coast cooking show influencer, journeys to a centuries-old English castle to honor a WWII nurse by laying her remains in the castle gardens, she finds herself swept into the castle’s holiday magic—and the unexpected warmth of it…

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A Christmas Murder Mystery [UPtv]

Rating: 🎄🎄🎄 Premiere Date: December 7, 2025 Description: Vera works part-time as a newspaper’s puzzle editor and as a consultant for the local sheriff. After being invited by a wealthy family to spend the holidays with them, the patriarch has been murdered and it’s up to Vera to solve the…

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Twelve Dates ‘Til Christmas [Hallmark]

Rating: 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄 Description: Talented Saville Row textile pattern designer Kate (Whitman) lives in the quaint village of Blexford, England, next door to her father Mac (Parker), who is long-divorced from Kate’s mother Delilah (McDonnell), a globe-trotting American always on an adventure. When not at work, Kate looks after Mac, who’s…

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Do You Fear What I Fear [Lifetime]

Rating: 🎄🎄 Premiere Date: December 4, 2025 Description: Claire’s fresh start turns chilling when eerie holiday decorations begin appearing in her apartment… each one a message from someone who knows her too well. Who is the dangerous “Secret Santa” watching her? Overall: It was adequate. This one starts out with…

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Merry Missed Connection [Lifetime]

Rating: 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄 Premiere Date: December 6, 2025 Description: Marie accidentally swaps diaries with a stranger at speed dating. As Christmas approaches, the holiday magic helps her find the right diary, and the right man, to make her Christmas season truly unforgettable. Overall: This one is a standout for Lifetime this…

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Christmas at the Inn [Great American]

Rating: 🎄 Premiere Date: December 6, 2025 Description: Christmas at the Inn follows Emma (Jill Wagner), a cafĂ© owner who returns home for her town’s beloved Christmas potluck—a tradition filled with recipes, decorations, and memories that span generations. What begins as a simple trip home becomes something much more meaningful when…

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A Christmas Cookbook [Lifetime]

Rating: 🎄 Premiere Date: December 5, 2025 Description: Unexpectedly single at Christmas, Veronica Cleary joins The X-Mas Club-a festive foodie group for solo celebrators. As she grows close to its kind founder, Cullen Murdock, she wonders if the rule of staying single was meant to be broken. Overall: It’s not…

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My Secret Santa [Netflix]

Rating: 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄 Premiere Date: December 3, 2025 Description: Taylor disguises as Santa at a resort to fund her daughter’s ski lessons. Working with the charming manager Matthew, she finds holiday cheer and a chance at love amidst challenges. Chemistry: Alexandra Breckenridge is a talent. She can do the tender moments,…

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Oh. What. Fun [Prime Video]

Rating: 🎄🎄🎄🎄 Premiere Date: December 3, 2025 Description: Claire Clauster is the glue that holds her chaotic, lovable family together at the holidays. But this year, after planning a special outing for them, they make a crucial mistake and leave her home alone. Fed up and feeling underappreciated, she sets…

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Christmas at the Catnip Cafe [Hallmark]

Rating: 🎄🎄 Premiere Date: November 30, 2025 Description: Olivia Pierce (Cahill) is a marketing executive from Oakland, California who is this close to realizing her dream of purchasing a condo, but she’s a bit short on the down payment. When she learns that her late great aunt left her half of a…

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There’s No Place Like Christmas [Great American]

Rating: 🎄🎄 Premiere Date: November 30, 2025 Description: In There’s No Place Like Christmas, big city realtor, Grace Sawyer (Busby) returns to her hometown of Evergreen Falls to lead the local realty office, just as the team nears an annual sales goal that would win them a dream vacation. On Grace’s…

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Christmas in Amish Country [UPtv]

Rating: 🎄🎄🎄 Premiere Date: November 30, 2025 Description: Chef Claire is reeling from bad reviews for her new restaurant in Chicago. She decides to head home to her Amish family and lie low to wait out the bad press. However, she can’t avoid it when a rideshare mix-up leads to…

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The Christmas Cup [Hallmark]

Rating: 🎄🎄🎄 Premiere Date: November 30, 2025 Description: After a knee injury threatens to cut her career short, Staff Sergeant Kelly Brandt (Fish) returns home in low spirits for the holidays. Her family tries to help by encouraging her to lead her hometown team in the annual Christmas Cup against…

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