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Film · Prime Video · 2017

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It

41Leave it.

The friendship is real. The fear is the product. Not for a child. Leave it if the house is young.

Take controlThis scores 41. If you do not want It in the house, the steps are on Prime Video. Block it

The review

The Losers' Club is the part that earns a score above a zero. Seven children, several of them already failed by the house they live in, tell each other the truth the adults will not say, and they go back. That is courage, and it is a kind of household. Pennywise is not a mystery the film wants solved so much as a mouth it wants opened. Georgie is the opening. The sewer, the blood, the missing posters: the picture is good at fright and generous with it.

Do not watch this with a child because the heroes are children. That is the oldest mistake a horror poster makes. Adults can see it and then say what the film will not linger on: a town that keeps a secret is already the monster. The clown is the advertisement.

Journal

Keep It in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 41. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Piety and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship 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

Goosebumps

54 instead of 41

Goosebumps is still a horror film, and it scores 54 instead of 41. What you gain is temperance: Meddling is how it starts.

The eight

3
Industry
The town works. It does not protect its children.
6
Household
They make a fellowship because the houses failed.
2
Piety
Derry bows to whatever eats, and calls it weather.
8
Courage
They return to the thing that wants them.
4
Republic
A whole city keeps the secret.
2
Temperance
The scare is the product, and it is generous with it.
5
Truth
The children name it. The picture enjoys it.
3
Stewardship
What remains is the clown, not a town worth keeping.

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Film · Roadside Attractions · 2026

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Buddy

41Leave it.

Forced cheer is a cage. The child who says no is the one the show cannot bear.

Take controlThis scores 41. Buddy cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

Inside a 1990s children's program, an orange unicorn leads the songs. A boy will not join the dance. He vanishes, and the host tells the others he has gone to a perfect city. Another child finds what he left, and it is not a postcard. The public story stops at the crack: the cheer was the lock, and the no was the thing the lock could not allow.

Do not put this in front of a child who still loves a show like it. The measure is for the adult who presses play. A smile that punishes the child who will not wear it is not friendship. It is a host.

Journal

Keep Buddy in the record.