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This year’s holiday season hasn’t been all jingle bells and Christmas cheer.

Gun violence drowned out festive tunes and for the flick fiends, Christmas Eve saw the deaths of both Jack Klugman and Charles Durning.

But let us end this year on a positive note.

As we look beyond December and back to the year as a whole, surviving the Mayan calendar wasn’t our only achievement.

Hollywood’s top five blockbusters all relied on the fierceness and determination of skilled women.

It’s been a pretty intriguing year for girls on film.

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