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Matthew's Definitive Ranking of Christmas Movies

Rank 89

Joy to the World

Added 23 November 2025

Joy is a successful cookbook and housekeeping author who has based her career on the lie that she is a happily married mother when she is, in fact, single and childless. Predictable complications ensue when she has to host a live TV special at her traditional family Christmas Eve dinner.

It’s a Chad Michael Murray movie so it was always going to be terrible, but even by his standards this was pretty dire. At this stage of his career Chad Michael Murray acts like he doesn’t want to live.