Onscreen, It's the Season of Cynicism
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So much for holiday cheer. Hollywood's cynicism is breeding a whole new genre of anti-holiday holiday movies.
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It&#39;s sad when it looks like the actors and crew are having way more fun on the set than the audience is having, and that&#39;s what it seems like with &quot;Ocean&#39;s Twelve.
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A few group shows have jumped the gun with a splash of stylish fizz, a knotty theme, a soak in strangeness, something special to catch the eye at seasonâs end.
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Remember when the good old summertime was the movies' silly season? This summer, smaller films pushed the frontiers of psychological realism and sexual candor.
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Our critic chooses his favorite movies for the year--and finds they tend to blur the line between fiction and reality.
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Films become more politicized as filmmakers seek to influence the upcoming election.
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It is not merely the season for giving but also of distraction and avoidance. It is, in other words, the time to hide out with the best of long-form narrative television.
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The presidential hopeful stars in two unflattering tomes that, at the least, are reminders of her polarizing profile.
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Some may call it exploiting racial tensions. CBS calls it darn   good television.
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For a town still fighting an impression of hopelessness, the arrival of a big-time network television show has been both welcome and somewhat anxiety inducing.
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A new Bollywood film is aiming to lash out at the attitude of sensationalizing news by the Indian media and present the negative impact it can have on the lives of people.
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There&#39;s a growing number of nonfiction films on current affairs, which usually means politics in this election year. They&#39;re diverse enough to prove Moore&#39;s brand of muckraking isn&#39;t the only way to bid for attention.
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You might not have felt any fallout so far. But TV dramas are unleashing a nuclear arsenal.
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A brand is transformed on the silver screen.
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Four documentaries with attitude are helping heat up the political season.
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It's a study in  contrasts. The freshman drama "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip"  hit the air in September in a blaze of glory and critical  raves, only to have the honeymoon sour roughly a minute after  its premiere had concluded, earning lousy ratings and negative  backlash in seemingly equal measure.
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There is joy and elation, and there is emotional torture and bitter disappointment in this torrid relationship that changes with the seasons in New England.