New holiday movies

Dashing Through the Snow

Lil Rel Howery stars as a slicktalking Santa Claus on the run from some North Pole bad actors who want to control the Naughty or Nice list. Chris “Ludacris” Bridges co-stars as Santa-skeptic Eddie, a divorced social worker who joins with his estranged daughter to take a magical adventure. Disney+

Family Switch

The body-swap genre gets a holiday twist. Jennifer Garner and Ed Helms play parents whose encounter with an astrological reader leads to parents and kids landing in one another’s bodies on the eve of the most important day in each of their lives. Netflix

The Shepherd

A Royal Air Force pilot flying home solo on Christmas Eve receives help from a mysterious source when he suffers an engine failure over the North Sea. Ben Radcliffe stars. Disney+

Candy Cane Lane

Never make a Faustian bargain with a Christmas elf. Eddie Murphy stars in this comedy as a suburban dad so desperate to win his neighborhood’s holiday decorating contest that he enters into a pact with a mischievous Santa’s helper who threatens to turn him into a holiday figurine. With Tracee Ellis Ross, Jillian Bell, and Robin Thede. Prime

Best. Christmas. Ever!

Convinced her friend Jackie’s yearly holiday-card humblebrag is a fraud, Charlotte arrives on Jackie’s doorstep to expose the truth, only to find that sometimes, things may truly be as good as they seem. Brandy Norwood, Heather Graham, Matt Cedeno, and Jason Biggs co-star. Netflix

The Naughty Nine

8-Bit Christmas’ Winslow Fegley plays the ringleader of a gang of naughty-listers who take their beef with Santa directly to the North Pole. With Danny Glover in the Saint Nick role. Disney+