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A Star Is Born

45Watch it awake.

Love is not a cure for a man who will not put the drink down. The film knows. It still asks you to ache for him.

The review

Ally has a gift and a job she is afraid to claim. Jackson has a gift he is spending to stay numb. The film sees both, and then it makes his death the door to her voice, which is an old lie about artists: that the ruin is the price of the true note. The true note was already there in the parking lot, before the ruin was asked to be meaningful.

Adults only. If you watch it, refuse the last alchemy. A person who kills himself is not a chord. Say that in the room so the song does not get the last word.

Journal

Keep A Star Is Born in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 45. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

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Don't Say Good Luck

63 instead of 45

Don't Say Good Luck is still a drama film, and it scores 63 instead of 45. What you gain is temperance: Sentiment is thick.

The eight

8
Industry
Stages, arrangements, a career built in public. Her work gets more serious as his comes apart.
5
Household
A marriage in which one of them is disappearing. She does not leave in time, and the film is tender about the lateness.
2
Piety
No creed. The bottle is the altar.
6
Courage
She walks out and sings after she has been shamed. He cannot walk into a day without the drink.
3
Republic
An industry, not a town. The brother is the nearest thing to a neighbor.
2
Temperance
Addiction is the subject and also the music. The last act makes a death into a ballad.
6
Truth
It does not pretend he was fine. It does let the voice ennoble the ending.
4
Stewardship
What she is left with is a song about him. Stewardship would have been a life.

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Beetlejuice

45Watch it awake.

Funny, and the joke has a predator in it. Adults. Not the children.

The review

Adam and Barbara are decent, recently dead, and too polite to haunt effectively. The Deetzes are rude in a way the film enjoys. Beetlejuice is not a scamp. He is a creature who wants a living girl for a bride, and the comedy keeps inviting you to find that charming. Lydia is a child in a black dress, not a punchline, and the film is at its best when the dead couple become her guardians.

Watch it grown, if you watch it. Do not hand the bio-exorcist to a ten-year-old as a friend. The friends are the quiet ghosts. The other one is a summons you should not make.

Journal

Keep Beetlejuice in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 45. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Piety and Republic and Temperance are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

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Addams Family Values

54 instead of 45

Addams Family Values is still a comedy film, and it scores 54 instead of 45. What you gain is republic: A satire of the enforced good time.