‘A Merry Little Ex-Mas’ Review: Alicia Silverstone Sleighs in Corny Netflix Rom-Com

Some movies are movies. Other movies are cocoa. “A Merry Little Ex-Mas” is the latter. It’s a small town, big family, red and green sweater, choose your own Christmas tree, bake your own scones, craft your own ornaments, 18 marshmallows in your piping hot cup of cocoa. With a candy cane in it.

Alicia Silverstone stars as Kate, a woman who moved to the small town of — spins the wheel of random holiday-themed town names — “Winterlight.” Anyway, Kate was going to be an architect, but her husband Everett (Oliver Hudson) wanted to move back to Winterlight to work as a doctor, so she put her plans on hold. A quarter century and two kids later,…