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Like the early Coen Brothers films Blood Simple and Miller's Crossing, this thriller is a genre exercise — controlled, precise and exquisite in its imagery as it makes an audience cringe.

Editorial leaders among the nation's top magazines for women discuss stories gracing the pages of their latest issues. Damarys Ocana, of Latina Magazine, Amy Gross, of O, The Oprah Magazine, and Angela Burt-Murray of Essence Magazine, discuss heroes and heroines within communities of color, holiday gift concepts and what makes the holidays so special to them.

Tucked back in the woods of East Hampton, Long Island is a house that some believe may prolong life. It's modeled on residences in Japan called "reversible destiny lofts." These places have bold colors, concave floors, doors too short to walk through and columns to hold on to when you lose your balance.

Toys come to life but the story never does in this lumbering holiday "attraction." Director Zach Helm seems to want to enchant the 6-year-old in all of us, but whimsy has seldom seemed so strenuous.

Fresh Air's arbiter of things filmic offers his annual year-end movies wrap-up. This time, his Top 10 list has 11 entries, as the number-nine slot features a tie. At the top: Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

The career of Quebec-born hockey legend Maurice "The Rocket" Richard — first NHL player to score 50 goals in 50 games — gets a handsome if conventional look in this biopic; Roy Dupuis stars.

NPR's Scott Simon visits Academy Award winning producer Irwin Winkler to talk shop — what does a producer do anyway? Winkler learned his lessons at the old William Morris agency.

A new documentary about the conflict in Sudan follows six people working to bring humanitarian relief to the region. Adam Sterling is one of those featured in Darfur Now. Sterling's passion for the cause led him to form The Sudan Divestment Task Force.

Andrea Seabrook offers a montage of some of the work of this year's 30th Annual Kennedy Center honorees, who receive their awards Sunday in Washington. They include Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, singer Diana Ross, pianist Leon Fleisher, comedian Steve Martin and film director Martin Scorsese.

India is planning its first museum celebrating the writer Rudyard Kipling. A bungalow in Bombay, where Kipling was born and lived until he was nearly 6, is being restored to house a hoped-for collection of associated memorabilia.