Christmas Movies for 2024

Getting ready for the holiday season? Check out this custom-curated movie list that you can watch while getting cozy this holiday season.

Now that we’ve all traded pumpkins for gingerbread, it’s the right moment to highlight this year’s Christmas movies

Each movie title presents a spectrum of love and compassion, togetherness and humor, good tidings, and a Santa Claus appearance.

Christmas Movies for 2024

Meet Me Next Christmas

Netflix

Release date: Nov. 6

Netflix audiences have fallen in love with Meet Me Next Christmas since it premiered in early November. Layla (Christina Milian) spends 32 hours running around New York City in the hopes of acquiring a ticket to see the a cappella group Pentatonix at its sold-out Christmas Eve concert. (Pentatonix isn’t Taylor Swift, but just go with it.) Why the rush? Because she’s desperate to reconnect with a guy (Kofi Siriboe) at the show. Layla enlists the help of Teddy (Devale Ellis), a private concierge who pulls out all the stops to nab those tickets. And let’s just say that love is in the Big Apple air.

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Hot Frosty

Release date: Nov. 13

Hot Frosty stars Christmas Movies for 2024 movie queen Lacey Chabert as a lonely widow who runs the local diner (naturally) but has let her own house fall apart. She accepts a red scarf at a thrift shop and places it on a ridiculously chiseled snowman. Voila! Thanks to the power of Christmas magic, the snowy sculpture soon comes to life in the form of hunky “Jack,” as played by Dustin Milligan from Schitt’s Creek.  High jinks and a sweet romance ensue. Just don’t think about the biology of it all.

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Release date: Nov. 17

The weekend before Glicked (that’s Wicked and Gladiator II for the uninitiated) touched down at the box office, this action comedy—rated PG-13, FYI—opened at No. 1 globally despite middling reviews. Dwayne Johnson stars as Callum Drift, the ready-to-retire head of security detail for Santa Claus himself (a very jacked J.K. Simmons). After big red is kidnapped, Callum teams up with hacker Jack O’Malley (Chris Evans) to track him down. In their mission to find Santa and save the holiday, the two journey through various Christmas myths. A visit to Santa’s brother Krampus (Kristofer Hivju) and a slap-off, anyone?

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Dear Santa

In this dark comedy, a little kid (Robert Timothy Smith), who’s a very bad speller, writes a letter to Santa for Christmas and inadvertently addresses his missive to Satan. The note makes its way to Hell, where the dark lord himself (Jack Black) receives it. Satan decides to meet the kid to lure him to the dark side—but the tyke proves difficult to corrupt. Fun for everyone? Well, let’s just say Dear Santa is directed by Bobby Farrelly, whose credits include Dumb and Dumber, There’s Something About Mary and Shallow Hal (which also starred Black).

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