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The Apartment > Carol > The Long Kiss Goodnight > The Lion In Winter > Die Hard > Love Actually #ChristmasMovies
(List inspired by my realization that The Apartment is a near-perfect Christmas movie.)
The Apartment is a hard movie to describe—sad, funny, sweet. Very 1950s, but feminist, clear-eyed, unflinching. Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon are both transcendent as young people trying to find their footing in an ugly world. And Christmasy in a very 21st century way.
(It's one of Billy Wilder's best, and one of the all-time great New York City movies, too.)
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So my kids and I are going to livetweet a movie together on my birthday at the end of the month, and I've been trying desperately to figure out which one to do. Tonight at dinner the 12-year-old came up with the answer: The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T.
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Trump’s eagerness to repeatedly publicly humiliate military leaders who attempt to take action against war criminals really is extraordinary. nytimes.com/2019/07/31/us/…
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