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For many people, the New Year is a fresh chance to ditch habits that don't serve them. It's often also paired with new aspirations tied to self-improvement or behavior change.

On social media, this unique season often revolves around a vague but familiar idea—setting an intention.

Just how one does this varies from person to person. Some TikTok users swear by (and sell) intention candles and



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Babbel Language Learning

TL;DR: Plan next year's big trip with a Babbel lifetime subscription for $129.97 through December 31 and learn up to 14 languages at your own pace.


Dreaming of exploring new countries in 2025? Why not go all in and speak the local language while you're there? Babbel’s lifetime subscription for $129.97 gives you access to 14 languages, helping you prep for your most immersive travel experience yet.

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Double Barrel

TL;DR: For just $119.99, you can get digital night vision binoculars with 720p recording, 4x zoom, infrared LEDs, and 32GB storage.


Ready to level up your outdoor adventures? Whether camping under the stars, tracking wildlife, or just trying to impress your friends on the next late-night outing, these Digital Night Vision Binoculars are the ultimate tool for seeing (and capturing) the unseen.

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Kiara (voiced by Blue Ivy Carter) and Simba (voiced by Donald Glover) in Disney’s

Writer/director Barry Jenkins has proved himself as a passionate filmmaker through such gorgeous, human dramas as the San Francisco-set love story Medicine for Melancholy, the Best Picture-winning coming-of-age tale Moonlight, and the poignant adaptation of James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk. So, if anyone could course-correct Disney away from the dead-eyed CGI remake of 2019's The Lion


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Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore stare out a window in

If you know nothing about The Room Next Door beyond its co-stars, Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore, you might understandably assume the film would be a heart-wrenching drama like We Need to Talk About Kevin and Magnolia or a brilliantly offbeat comedy like Problemista and The Big Lebowski. That the film is written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar isn't really a clue one way or the other. After all


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Celebrated indie writer/director Sean Baker isn't precious about sex. On social media, pearl-clutchers chatter about love scenes being unneeded in media. In politics, our bedroom activities and identities become fear-mongering talking points. Meanwhile, Baker shrugs off such puritanical shame, turning out one critically heralded movie after another that offers a defiantly casual yet humane


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The Brutalist is a towering paean to the American dream, in all its force and folly. Set over several decades, Brady Corbet's post-World War II immigrant saga is — like the architectural achievements of its protagonist — constructed with meticulous consideration, resulting in a work of multifaceted technique and piercing humanity.

The film, arresting from its first frames, spends three-and-a-half