What makes a Christmas movie, you know, a Christmas movie?
It seems to be a time-honored tradition to revisit this question every year. And those who believe Die Hard is a Christmas movie seem to be willing to go down like Hans Gruber over their conviction.
In the last two years, box-office records have been few and far between. But last weekend, Sony and Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home swung for the fences (or maybe I should say skyscrapers) with the most eagerly anticipated movie this year. Everyone’s friendly neighborhood wall-crawler managed to web a massive (estimated) $260 million in North America. (And that’s without Quebec, which is on COVID-19 lockdown).
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