Christmas is upon us, and with it comes plenty of traditions. But one staple of the holiday season holds a special place in my heart - the Christmas movie. Whether it’s belting out ‘You’ll shoot your eye out kid!’ during TV reruns of A Christmas Story, or getting into a heated debate over whether or not Die Hard is actually a Christmas movie (I’ll spare everybody the trouble and say that it is), these classics never fail to entertain year after year.

So naturally, I had to come up with my own definitive list of the best Christmas movies, backed by hard data. I used the MovieLens dataset as the basis of my analysis, an open-source bank of 20 million movie reviews maintained by researchers at University of Minnesota. For the purpose of my work, only movies released prior to 2015 were considered .

Without further ado, here’s the best Christmas movies of all-time, according to ratings from more than 83,000 people .