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Director Mun is not handing her audience some candy-coated reunion story.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025

The result is a pastel-coloured, candy-coated club anthem, whose infectious energy kept it in the charts for 39 weeks.

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2023

The candy-coated flick defied its initial box office expectations of $35 million.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2023

While it is tempting to dismiss Hallmark's Hanukkah films as candy-coated pablum, Hanukkah representation is infamously slim, and the "Countdown to Christmas" series pulled in 80 million viewers last year; it is enormously popular.

From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2022

The outer leaves were going red, yellow, and orange, while the inner ones still held the deep green of summer, so that the trees appeared candy-coated.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart


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