Dashing Through the Snow (PG), on Disney+
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This came out in November 2023, and I actually saw it on the very day of its release. It's set in Atlanta, and begins 30 years ago. There's an incident with a department store Santa Claus that makes young Eddie Garrick lose his belief in Santa and dislike Christmas for the next... 30 years. So we flash forward to the present. Eddie (Chris "Ludacris" Bridges) is a social worker who is now separated from his wife, Allison (Teyonah Parris), and shares custody of their adorable daughter, Charlotte, who loves Christmas. On Christmas Eve, Allison drops Charlotte off with Eddie so they can spend some time together while she does some last minute shopping. When Eddie goes next door to feed his vacationing neighbors' cat (which I doubt ever got fed), he sees a man dressed as Santa Claus (Lil Rel Howery) stuck in the fireplace. He helps get him unstuck, but of course he doesn't believe the guy is really Santa. (He calls himself Nick Sinter-Klaas.) Eddie goes into social worker mode, and wants to take Nick to the police to get help, as he's obviously harmless but not quite right in the head. However, Charlotte does believe Nick is the real Santa. And some goons start chasing them around town, trying to get back a tablet Nick had taken from them earlier in the day (we eventually see a flashback). The tablet belongs to their boss, a corrupt congressman named Conrad Harf, and it has incriminating evidence on it. At a couple of points in the movie, Nick, Eddie, and Charlotte get some help from a family of Santa-trackers called the Truckles.

I don't know what else to say except that there are various indications that Nick might really be Santa, and various indications that he might not be. I don't want to say which way it goes in the end, but this isn't a super-original premise for movies like this, so you can probably guess. And it does the premise about as well as most such films. Anyway, there's a happy ending for Eddie and his family. And I found the whole movie reasonably amusing, and enjoyably silly, with just the right balance of magic vs. realism, and a bit of real heart. It's not great, but I liked it.