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Film · United Artists · 1963

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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

30Leave it.

The joke is greed, and the film is on greed's side for nearly the whole of a very long evening.

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The review

A man dies at the side of the road and tells the people who stopped where a fortune is buried. They stop helping and start racing. The cast is enormous and the gags are built like stunts, and some of the stunts are funny. The length is the tell. A satire of greed that needs three hours is a film that does not want the greed to end, because the greed is the entertainment.

I laughed at two of them and I will not pretend the laugh is a moral. Spouses are abandoned, strangers are run off the road, and the movie's affection is with the people doing it. A very large gross in its years. Leave it unless you are studying how a comedy takes the audience's side. If a child is in the room, this is not the chase comedy to teach them. The prize is the only character the film loves.

Journal

Keep It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 30. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth 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

Cars 2

39 instead of 30

Cars 2 is still a comedy film, and it scores 39 instead of 30. What you gain is household: Friendship.

The eight

4
Industry
They work hard at the chase. The work is a scramble for somebody else's cash.
3
Household
Marriages are in the cars, and the money matters more than the person in the next seat.
2
Piety
No one answers to anything. The clue replaces a conscience.
4
Courage
They take stupid risks. The risks are for a prize, not for a neighbor.
2
Republic
A whole landscape of people is reduced to rivals for a box.
2
Temperance
The excess is the point, and three hours of it is not a satire that knows when to stop.
4
Truth
Greed is visible. The film still wants you to enjoy the greed more than you judge it.
3
Stewardship
A house inherits a long laugh at people who will leave each other for a sum.

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Film · Prime Video · 2026

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A Doctor to Die For

30Leave it.

Medicine is a trust. A poster that breaks it for a scare has not earned an evening.

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The review

The tile is a close face and a title that turns a physician into a body count. Sometimes that story is about a real betrayal of an oath, which is a grave subject. More often it is a white coat as a costume for a thriller. The desk will not invent the chart.

Do not learn what a doctor is from a poster like this. The oath is older than the twist. If the film is actually about the oath, the scores on truth and stewardship can be revisited. Until then it is a scare with a stethoscope.