Thanks for all your replies. I think I "get it" now, although it seems to be a long way around just to write an article about how good a movie Die Hard is.

Can someone decipher the headline for me? "…because it's only Christmas-adjacent" makes no sense to me. Die Hard is a lot of things – action movie, thriller, Bruce Willis vehicle, great ensemble, great special effects – and I believe it "works" because of all those things. So the word "only" confuses me. I have…