The most prolific purveyor of holiday movie cheer is Hallmark, which has 48 Christmas movies in total — 32 holiday movies on its flagship Hallmark Channel, nine new movies on its Hallmark Mystery channel, and seven exclusively on its Hallmark+ streaming ...

Her character’s cognitive dissonance might apply equally well to the holiday movie season itself, if the assortment of diverse films is to be measured by a single yardstick. The season kicks off next week with a musical “Wizard of Oz” prequel about the struggle between good and evil,