DIE HARD

Don’t tell Bruce Willis, but surely this Yuletide re-release settles the debate as to whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie. Ho ho ho! Not that we need a seasonal excuse to watch it. Thirty years on, John McTiernan’s classic still towers over the genre like the Nakatomi Plaza. The secret ingredient is detail: from the crisp characters and deft performances to the mischievous subversion of ’80s macho bombast. Simon Kinnear