As most people know, November is the cruelest month, made tolerable only by the promise of holiday-themed coffee drinks and the soft, slow hum of Mariah Carey's Christmas songs filling every mall and retail corridor of our cities and towns. It is also when we collectively escape the garbage of the previous year in seasonally-specific movies like Love Actually, The Holiday and Fred Claus. The movies and trailers that are supposed to shepard in the new year are meant to be light and trite just as Jesus himself intended. But nearly all of this week's offerings are straight up clinical in their reflection of reality. Don't they know it's (almost) Christmas?
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