In Slate’s annual Movie Club, film critic Dana Stevens emails with fellow critics—for 2025, Justin Chang, Alison Willmore, and Bilge Ebiri—about the year in cinema. Bilge, I know you could school me ...

The holidays have arrived, which for many means that it's time to put on a Christmas movie by the fire and snuggle up with a warm blanket. Most of the best Christmas films, including classics and ...

It's been 22 years since "Elf" starring Will Ferrell came out in theaters. Since its release in 2003, it's joined the pantheon of Christmas comedy classics like "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, ...

The clothing company Homage offers a collection of holiday apparel featuring classic Christmas movies. T-shirts and sweatshirts are available with designs from films like "Home Alone," "Elf," and ...

Starring ’80s Saturday Night Live icons Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd, Trading Places is a Christmas-set comedy about two men from radically different worlds — Aykroyd as a smug, well-heeled ...

One of my favorite holiday movies to watch every December is Elf. This Will Ferrell flick about a grown man who was raised as an elf and sets off to find his human father is pure comedic gold. On top ...

Zooey Deschanel owes one of her first big breaks to a Hollywood superstar passing on the female lead role in Elf. Originally, Deschanel’s character Jovie was meant for a more well-known actor. But, ...

A little boy with Down syndrome could not contain his joy recently, when he got to meet Buddy the Elf in person. Footage recorded by the boy’s sister, Ashtyn Abbas, shows six-year-old William Bosch ...

Anyone will tell you that these are tumultuous, borderline-apocalyptic times for the film industry. Box office is down. The threat of AI looms. Billionaires and tech giants are laying waste to what ...