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Film · United Artists · 1969

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Midnight Cowboy

35Leave it.

He comes to be a hustler and fails. The sick friend is the only thing that is not a transaction.

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The review

A young man leaves Texas for New York sure that rich women will keep him. They do not. A sick, limping con man becomes the only friend he has. They are heading for Florida at the end, and one of them does not arrive.

Best picture, and adult. The city uses both of them. The friendship is the only thing in the film that is not a transaction, and it is not pretty and it is not long. Do not put it on to feel worldly. If you watch it, watch for the friend.

Journal

Keep Midnight Cowboy in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 35. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household 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

The Godfather Part II

46 instead of 35

The Godfather Part II is still a drama film, and it scores 46 instead of 35. What you gain is industry: An immigrant's labor, then a crime that calls itself a business.

The eight

2
Industry
He comes to sell himself. The plan fails. There is no other work.
4
Household
No marriage. A sick friend becomes the only person he will not leave.
2
Piety
Nothing stops him but failure. The city has no mercy to offer.
5
Courage
He stays with a dying man when staying gets him nothing.
2
Republic
New York here is a market. Nobody owes anybody a room.
3
Temperance
He arrives meaning to sell himself. The plan empties, and the film lets it.
7
Truth
The dream of easy money is shown failing. The ending does not cheer it up.
3
Stewardship
One of them does not reach Florida. Nothing is planted.

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Film · MGM · 2015

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Spectre

35Leave it.

Brand maintenance with a funeral in it. The craft is professional. The reason is thin.

Take controlThis scores 35. Spectre cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

There is a real public question under the tux: who watches the watchers when every camera is one system. The film picks the question up and sets it down for a childhood grievance that makes a franchise feel like a family saga. It is not a family saga. It is a product arranging its villains into one line.

Adults who like the craft can see the craft. Do not call it serious because it is gloomy. Gloom is cheap. The question about the cameras was the part worth keeping, and they spent it.

Journal

Keep Spectre in the record.