Oh, Feel Ya: Kirsten Dunst plays a depressed bride waiting for the world to end in Melancholia, one of a bumper crop of bummers that came our way in 2011. Magnolia Pictures hide caption
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'Pina': German filmmaker Wim Wenders' 3-D dance documentary is a homage to influential German dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch, who died in 2009. Donata Wenders/Neue Road Movies hide caption
A word cloud featuring readers' submissions to the question, "What was 2011 a good year for?" NPR hide caption
Zooey Deschanel plays Jess on Fox's New Girl. Fox uses the term "adorkable" to describe her. Isabella Vosmikova/Fox hide caption
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Michael Haley of the New York Islanders fights Stu Bickel of the New York Rangers in the first period of an NHL game at Madison Square Garden in New York City, Dec. 26. Paul Bereswill/Getty Images hide caption
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House Speaker John Boehner, surrounded by Republican House members, speaks during a news conference in Washington last week. The House initially rejected a plan to extend a tax cut for two months to buy time for talks on a full-year renewal. It later compromised — a rare event in 2011. Susan Walsh/AP hide caption