Here’s a guide to the best of the big holiday movies in Australian cinemas from now to the middle of January. If you feel like a dam has burst when you look at what’s currently screening in cinemas, you’re not alone. Covid restrictions forced Hollywood to put many of their biggest releases on hold for a year or more, and now they’re racing to get the backlog out in front of audiences. Films that once would have been left to dominate the box office for weeks are now competing with major releases coming out on the same day; titles that might have expected to be given time to pull in crowds are finding themselves bumped for the next big thing.