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Marital strife, foreign intrigue and violent fantasies are all the rage this December, as Hollywood empties its bag of holiday gifts. Just don’t expect much harmony and cheer under the tree.

The blizzard of bleak begins next Friday with Darren Aronofsky’s much-anticipated “Black Swan,” in which Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis play ballerinas going toe-to-toe, and it ends New Year’s Eve with Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams doing battle as a mismatched married couple in the intense drama, “Blue Valentine.” Ah, the holidays, is there’s no better time for fighting?

I’m sure Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg would agree. They play real-life Boston boxing brothers Eklund and Micky Ward, whose vicious brawls at home rival anything they encounter in the ring. Violent skirmishes, of the computer-enhanced variety, are also on tap for two of the season’s biggest sequels, “Tron Legacy” and “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.” But the best confrontations will be the ones between major Oscar contenders like “The King’s Speech,” the true story of how Queen Elizabeth’s father (Colin Firth) overcame a voice impediment; and “Rabbit Hole,” the gut-wrenching drama about a mother and father (Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart) dealing with their young son’s accidental death.