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Film · Warner Bros. · 1976

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All the President's Men

75Worth an evening.

Put it on when you want to see a public lie presented with a bill.

The review

Two sources. That is the rule worth stealing, and it comes from editors, not from a speech. Washington Post reporters follow the Watergate break-in past the burglars to the money and the committee. A source in a garage. The work is the phone and the note. The White House wanted it kept small. The courage is refusing to print the interesting version before it is sure.

Here the republic is not a backdrop. The lie had a bill, and ordinary labor collected it. Put it on for a teenager who thinks news is a tone of voice. It is dull in the right places: checks, patience, men who may not run the story they prefer. If you only remember the garage, you watched a thriller. Remember the second source.

Journal

Keep All the President's Men in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 75. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household is the thin one.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

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

Consider this

A Man for All Seasons

89 instead of 75

A Man for All Seasons is still a drama film, and it scores 89 instead of 75. What you gain is household: He loves his house and still will not buy it with a lie.

The eight

9
Industry
The job is the phone, the note, and editors who demand two sources.
2
Household
Home stays offscreen. The life you see is the newsroom and the garage.
7
Piety
Conscience here is refusing to print what you cannot yet source.
8
Courage
They keep going after a break-in powerful people wanted left small.
9
Republic
The lie had a bill, and the paper's duty was to show that bill.
8
Temperance
Two sources is restraint. They do not get to run the first hot tip.
9
Truth
A promise to check the story holds, and the public lie does not.
8
Stewardship
What remains is a record that a public lie can still be made to pay.

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Film · Prime Video · 1957

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12 Angry Men

75Worth an evening.

Keep it. A room, a reasonable doubt, and the courage to be the first no.

The review

Eleven men want the afternoon back. The twelfth wants the testimony walked through, because a life is not a schedule. The film is a whole civics lesson in one sweatbox: prejudice with a smile, prejudice with a shout, and the slow work of looking at a knife and a train schedule until the story the state told no longer holds. Nobody is romanticized for being angry. The quiet man is not a saint. He is simply unwilling to be rushed into a killing.

A teenager should see this before they see another thriller about a genius detective. Justice here looks like staying in the chair. That is a picture this house can use.

Journal

Keep 12 Angry Men in the record.