13 Days Of Christmas

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  13 Days Of Christmas It’s A Wonderful Life shows the unending cost of being good

  Frank Capra’s Christmas classic is as much about a country recovering from World War II as anything else.

  December 21, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  13 Days Of Christmas Gremlins is a perfect holiday movie for those all out of Christmas cheer

  Joe Dante’s anarchic classic isn’t perfect, but it gets at something many feel better than any other film.

  December 20, 2012 | 12:00pm -

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  13 Days Of Christmas The holidays are for family fighting in A Christmas Tale

  Pass the wine.

  December 19, 2012 | 1:30pm -

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  13 Days Of Christmas David Sedaris mixes the grotesque and the genuine in Holidays On Ice

  The famed writer’s holiday essay collection offers a nice overview of his career thus far.

  December 18, 2012 | 12:00pm -

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  13 Days Of Christmas The Great Santa Claus Switch introduced Jim Henson’s obsessions

  The first Muppets holiday special serves as a Muppet Show run-up, with plenty of familiar material in unfamiliar forms.

  December 17, 2012 | 12:00pm -

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  13 Days Of Christmas Eight Crazy Nights proves that it’s not worth spending Hanukah with Adam Sandler

  The animated, would-be holiday classic seems to be yet another irritating inside joke between the actor and his friends.

  December 14, 2012 | 12:00pm -

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  13 Days Of Christmas Phil Spector’s A Christmas Gift For You aimed for respectability—and created a new tradition

  The classic record was Spector’s bid at impressing cultural gatekeepers, but took far longer to catch on.

  December 13, 2012 | 10:00am -

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  13 Days Of Christmas The Fonz plays against type in 1979’s An American Christmas Carol

  Henry Winkler cut against his most famous role in a surprisingly political retelling of the Dickens classic. 

  December 11, 2012 | 12:00pm -

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  13 Days Of Christmas Christmas With The Super-Heroes searched for the holiness of Superman and friends

  The ’80s DC Comics collection offered six tales of the season, some serious, some silly. 

  December 10, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  13 Days Of Christmas A Charlie Brown Christmas’ soundtrack captures the holiday spirit by not defining it

  Vince Guaraldi compositions invite listeners to imprint their own memories over Charles Schulz’s.

  December 7, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  13 Days Of Christmas The Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special put a fresh coat on an old format

  Updating the traditional TV holiday pageant, armed with tinsel and gay icons.

  December 6, 2012 | 10:30am -

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  13 Days Of Christmas Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol comes this close to screwing it up but somehow still works

  The first-ever animated TV Christmas special does dire things to the Dickens classic, but features great songs.

  December 5, 2012 | 10:30am -