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Movie · Netflix · 2003

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Elf

51Watch it awake.

A son looking for a father. Silly, and the aim is the right aim.

The review

Elf is a comedy about a man who finds out he has a son and would rather finish the meeting. The movie is on the son's side, and it is right to be. The gags are silly enough for a family and long enough that you should not expect a sermon. Watch it in the season, and notice that the good ending is not the sleigh. The good ending is the father at the table.

Journal

Keep Elf in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 51. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Piety and Republic 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.

Consider this

Horton Hears a Who!

64 instead of 51

Horton Hears a Who! is still a family film, and it scores 64 instead of 51. What you gain is courage: He is mocked, threatened, and he does not set the speck down.

The eight

4
Industry
The workshop is work. New York is a father who has replaced his house with an office.
7
Household
The whole trip is an attempt to get a father to be a father, and a brother to have a brother.
4
Piety
Christmas is belief, played broad, and still about a household.
5
Courage
He keeps walking into rooms that humiliate him because the man might be his father.
4
Republic
An office building against a family.
5
Temperance
Candy and volume. The sweetness is not a sneer.
6
Truth
The father is a neglectful man, not a secret hero, until he turns.
6
Stewardship
What he wants handed to him is a name on a family tree.

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Best of the Best

51Watch it awake.

The practice is the good. The rivalry, the drinking, and the sex talk are the tax. Watch it with her, not as a sleepover.

The review

Maitreyi Ramakrishnan's Maya and her oldest friend join the team that was supposed to prove they still belong to each other. Lena Khan's picture is about work: rehearsal, a captain, a routine that does not care about your history. Then it is about a campus, which means the other curriculum — drinks, a smoke, talk that treats sex as the way you rank people.

A thirteen-year-old will call it a dance movie. Sit in the room. When the friendship cracks, ask which of them told the truth and which of them performed it. Leave if the party becomes the point.

Journal

Keep Best of the Best in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 51. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Republic and Temperance 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.

Consider this

Everything Everywhere All at Once

63 instead of 51

Everything Everywhere All at Once is still a comedy film, and it scores 63 instead of 51. What you gain is stewardship: What she keeps is the ordinary life.