Hallmark: Flipping for Christmas (2023)

I have to admit, when I saw that Hallmark had a movie titled Flipping for Christmas this year, my expectations were instantly lowered. After watching it, I have to say it didn’t even meet those expectations. This is one you can skip, but I’ll describe it for you anyway…

Hallmark: Round and Round (2023)

Hallmark has been working Hanukkah into its lineup for a few years now, and I feel like they may have finally gotten it right with this year’s, Round and Round. For the first time, I felt like I was watching a Hallmark Hanukkah movie, not a “best of both worlds Christmas and Hanukkah” movie, or a “Hanukkah explainer” movie. This was just a fun movie about an adult family during Hanukkah. And it’s about time.

Love at the Thanksgiving Day Parade (2012)

A great discovery for me this year was that Roku has bundled up its free content into channels on its Live TV channel. This includes a Hallmark Movies & More channel that plays Hallmark Original and Hallmark Hall of Fame movies ALL DAY LONG. So, I watch a few of its movies throughout the year when I need a relaxing movie night.

Everything Christmas (2023)

Everything Christmas made it to my watch list this year solely because of Cindy Busby. I first saw her as Ashley Stanton on Heartland, then followed her to Hallmark the year they started making a slew of Pride & Prejudice-themed movies, even though they clearly didn’t read the book. She starred in 2016’s Unleashing Mr. Darcy and its sequel Marrying Mr. Darcy. But my favorite made-for-TV Cindy is in UP TV’s 2016 movie, A Puppy for Christmas. She plays a woman who always wanted a puppy for Christmas, goes out and gets one, only to get dumped by her shitty boyfriend, and accompany her co-worker to his backwoods family Christmas. It’s cute and also co-stars Greyston Holt when he’s not putting on a terrible fake ‘country’ accent for the A Very Country Christmas series (although we do get to see his guitar skills for a hot minute.)

ANYWAY. Let’s dive into the short version of Everything Christmas so you can save yourself two hours.

My Top Ten Hallmark Christmas Movies of 2022

After much deliberating and trying to remember certain movies that got lost in the fold, here are the top ten Hallmark Christmas Movies of 2022 (that I watched). I watched twenty (20) new Hallmark Christmas movies this year between the Countdown to Christmas and the Miracles of Christmas lists.