14 films you’ll want to check out this holiday season

How about a little popcorn for the holidays? Here’s a sampling of what you’ll find on screens during the festive season. Note that all release dates are tentative and subject to change.

In this drama, based on events that took place in the Pacific Northwest in the 1980s, Jude Law plays an FBI agent in pursuit of the leader (Nicholas Hoult) of a white supremacist terrorist group known as The Order. (Dec. 6)

It might seem a little late in the year for a horror comedy. Nonetheless, Kyle Mooney’s debut film is the story of two high schoolers who crash a New Year’s Eve party in 1999. The cast includes Rachel Zegler (“West Side Story”), Jaeden Martell and Julian Dennison. (Dec. 6)

The most memborable title of the year? No question. Writer/director Marielle Heller follows up “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” and “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” with this adaptation of Rachel Yoder’s 2021 novel, starring Amy Adams as a stay-at-home mother who transforms into a dog at night. (Dec. 6)

If you’re grieving the absence of Russell Crowe in “Gladiator II,” fear not: Here he is in the latest Marvel Comics installment, playing the father of big-game hunter Kraven (Aaron Taylor-Johnson). Ariana DeBose and Alessandro Nivola co-star. (Dec. 13)

And you thought this franchise was over? Not quite. This animated film uses the voices of Brian Cox and Miranda Otto to tell a story — visually inspired by Peter Jackson’s trilogy — of legendary king Helm Hammerhand, who became the namesake of Helm’s Deep. (Dec. 13)

Another drama based on true events, this one goes back to 1972, when a group of sports journalists at the Summer Olympics in Munich found themselves covering a hostage crisis. Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro and Ben Chaplin star. (Dec. 13)

Barry Jenkins, the director of “Moonlight” and “If Beale Street Could Talk,” takes on his first animated feature: a photorealistic “Lion King” sequel featuring the voices of Aaron Pierre, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Seth Rogen and Beyoncé. (Dec. 20)

Escaping post-war Europe, visionary architect László Toth (Adrien Brody) arrives in America to rebuild his life, his work and his marriage to Erzsébet (Felicity Jones) after being forced apart during wartime by shifting borders and regimes. (Dec. 20)

Speaking of Jenkins, he wrote the screenplay for this fact-based drama about Olympic boxer Claressa “T-Rex” Shields (Ryan Destiny). Oscar-nominated cinematographer Rachel Morrison (“Mudbound”) makes her feature directing debut. (Dec. 25)

There was lots of buzz out of the international film festival circuit this fall about this erotic thriller. Nicole Kidman won the best actress award at the Venice Film Festival for her role as a CEO who becomes involved with a younger man (Harris Dickinson). Dutch filmmaker Halina Reijn directs. (Dec. 25)

Care for a little bloodsucking for the holidays? More than a century after F.W. Murnau’s silent vampire film “Nosferatu” (based on Bram Stoker’s novel “Dracula”) comes this gothic remake, with a cast featuring Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Hoult, Lily-Rose Depp, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin and Willem Dafoe. (Dec. 25)

Timothée Chalamet plays Bob Dylan. Do you need to know any more than that? (Dec. 25)

This docudrama is ased on the true story of the meteoric rise, dramatic fall and remarkable resurgence of British pop superstar Robbie Williams (playing himself). (Dec. 25)

Based on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, this drama follows two boys at an abusive reform school in 1960s Florida. Documentary filmmaker RaMell Ross (“Hale Country This Morning, This Evening”) makes his feature directing debut. (Date TBD)