Dreaming of an Armond White Christmas
On the merriest, maddest day of the year, families gather around the TV-hearth to trudge through the same festive films over and over, provoking grumbling, deja vu and boredom. It's also around this time that notorious film critic Armond White gifts us with his annual Better Than list, pitting his real top ten against movies he thinks are similar but vastly inferior. In the spirit of the season, then, and in honor of Armond, here's my own Christmas better-than list: slightly less curmudgeonly, but just as argumentative -- and more fun for you, snowbound viewer. In "A Christmas Story," little Ralphie wants his BB gun and won't shut up about it, no matter how many times he's told "you'll shoot your eye out" -- a line made infinitely more familiar by TNT's perverse annual tradition of running the Bob Clark movie on a 24-hour loop. But I think "A Christmas...
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