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By law,Netflix Christmas rom-comshave several tenets they must adhere to.

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A monarch and a journalist must have a charged interaction, often of a romantic nature.

An elderly man must haunt the city where the protagonists live, playing God.

The set-design budget must never exceed $40.

Thats where the first part of the title comes in: A woman is falling.

Soisthe title a pun?

Lets consider this at length, for some reason.

Nor isFalling for Christmasabout a woman who falls for the concept of Christmas.

She is not, conversely, a scrappy socialist-adjacent who refuses to participate in the Christmas economy.

In fact, this is the only reading of the title and the film that makes any coherent sense.

Waiting for her at the bottom, after searching for her for so many years, we caught Lindsay.