These are America’s favorite holiday movies

Sorry “Bad Santa,” but the most-loved holiday movies this year are entirely wholesome family classics.

“Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” ranks highest among the most beloved holiday movies, followed by “A Charlie Brown Christmas” and “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” according to a Morning Consult/The Hollywood Reporter poll.

Those three movies made the poll’s “nice” list, pulling in the highest percentages of warm happy Christmas opinions. Also on the list? “Home Alone,” the troublemaker comedy soon getting a reboot, thanks to Disney. “Frosty the Snowman” has an 80% favorability ranking, “A Christmas Story” polled at 76% and “Miracle on 34th Street” scored 69% favorable feelings from those polled.

And these opinions are firm: In the poll, 76% of the 2,200 U.S. adults surveyed say they plan to rewatch the same holiday movie they watch every year, even if it’s “Gremlins,” which 15% of those polled said they have an “unfavorable” view of.

And yes, “Die Hard” made the list — for a certain set. About 12% of those polled had an unfavorable view of the 1988 Bruce Willis action flick set on Christmas Eve.

But the least favorable Christmas movie of the poll was one which probably would have put itself there. About 20 percent of those polled had an unfavorable view of the 2003 Billy Bob Thornton anti-hero flick “Bad Santa” — which, lest you forget, had a sequel in 2016.

It’s unlikely that anyone gathers their loved ones ’round to watch a drunk and depressed Thornton play a con-man mall Santa.

In any case, the classics are running up against stiff competition, as streaming services such as Netflix and cable networks like Hallmark capitalize on our desire to absently watch corny holiday romances as we wrap gifts.

Many of them are already available on streaming platforms ahead of the Thanksgiving vegging-out season.

Among those new to the holiday movie machine is Netflix’s “The Knight Before Christmas.” Starring Vanessa Hudgens (“High School Musical”) and Josh Whitehouse (“Poldark”), this might be the most preposterous movie of the season. Whitehouse plays a medieval knight who travels to the present day, where he falls in love with a downtrodden high school teacher (Hudgens). Think “Enchanted” meets “Outlander.”

So watch out, “Bad Santa.”

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