Favorite of the Month: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

In the interest of full disclosure (and to generate a little content here) I thought I’d present a regular tally of what movies I managed to see in the previous month. Some of them I’ve written or talked about, most of them I haven’t. This list includes movies I saw for the first time, movies I’ve seen a thousand times, movies I saw in the theater, movies I watched at home, direct-to-DVD, made-for-TV and anything else that qualifies as a movie. I also choose my favorite of the month among those movies I saw for the first time, marked in red. Feel free to discuss or ask about any of them!

1. I Am Santa Claus (2014), A
2. A Christmas Carol (2009), B-
3. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (1983), B+
4. Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964), D; RiffTrax Live Riff, B
5. The Night Before (2015), B-
6. Santa Claus (1959), F; Rifftrax Live Riff, B
7. A Muppet Family Christmas (1987), A
8. Snow (2004), B
9. Snow 2: Brain Freeze (2008), B
10. Christmas Eve on Sesame Street (1978), A
11. Christmas With Rifftrax: Santa’s Village of Madness, B
12. The Shop Around the Corner (1940), A
13. Trans-Siberian Orchestra: The Ghosts of Christmas Eve (1999), B+
14. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie (1998), D
15. Christmas Eve (2015), A-
16. Scrooge (1970), B+
17. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), A-
18. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), A-
19. Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July (1979), B-
20. Trading Places (1983), B
21. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989), A
22. A Very Murray Christmas (2015), A-
23. Marvel Super Hero Adventures: Frost Fight (2015), B
24. The Ref (1994), B+
25. An American Christmas Carol (1979), B+
26. Popeye’s Voyage: The Quest For Pappy (2004), C
27. Ebbie (1995), D
28. Scrooge and Marley (2001), C-
29. Die Hard (1988), A
30. Home Alone (1990), A
31. Santa’s Christmas Circus (1966), D; RiffTrax Riff, B
32. The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992), A+
33. Santa Claus: The Movie (1985), A
34. Miracle on 34th Street (1947), A
35. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), A+
36. A Christmas Story (1983), A
37. In the Good Old Summertime (1949), B
38. Captain Phillips (2013), B+
39. Hail, Caesar! (2016), B+
40. Life of Pi (2012), A-
41. 12 Years a Slave (2013), A
42. Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders (2016), C
43. Night Shadows (1984), D-; RiffTrax Riff, B
44. No Country For Old Men (2007), A-
45. Keanu (2016), B
46. 12 Angry Men (1957), A+
47. Wild Things (1998), B
48. The Sting (1973), A-
49. Singin’ in the Rain (1952), A+
50. The Jungle Book (2016), C+
51. For the Love of Spock (2016), A
52. Ghostbusters (1984), A
53. Ghostbusters II (1989), B