Make your movie list, check it twice and master your multiplex. Below, we’ve sifted through the many movie options this season to give you a few ideas on what to go see (and what to avoid) over the holidays.

For Families With Young Kids

Sing

This funny jukebox musical has elephants and porcupines belting out the latest pop songs in total “American Idol” style. It is likely to keep the young ones engaged. And that pig in the track suit singing Lady Gaga should make audiences of all ages giggle. In his New York Times review, Glenn Kenny called it “relentlessly amiable.”

For Families With Older Kids

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

This one is not a tough sell. If they haven’t seen it yet, your kids are probably eager to check out the first stand-alone movie in this franchise. Since it opened last week, it has been pleasing longtime “Star Wars” fans and helping generate new ones (despite a highly unfavorable review from The Times’s A. O. Scott). It doesn’t shy away from intensity, yet delivers the action and thrills you’d expect to find in this galaxy far, far away.

For an Evening With Friends

Nocturnal Animals

You’ll probably not want to venture out with the family to this dark thriller, but if you’re looking for a movie that will appeal to you and your friends, this film — part pulpy thriller and part contemplative drama — will be of interest. Tom Ford directed, and Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal star. In her review, Manohla Dargis wrote that the film contains “moments of low-key pleasure.”