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Movie · Disney+ · 2016

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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

58Watch it awake.

A house that shelters children the world would use. Darker than it looks on the poster.

The review

The premise is parental in the best sense. There are children the world finds useful or disgusting, and a house exists to keep them. Miss Peregrine is severe because the alternative is a monster who eats what makes the children strange. The picture is Tim Burton's, so the shelter is also a cabinet of curiosities, and a few images are too much for a small child.

Good for a twelve-year-old with you. Ask why the loop had to be a single day, and what a house is allowed to freeze in order to keep a child safe. Then unpause your own.

Journal

Keep Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 58. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety is the thin one.

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

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

70 instead of 58

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is still a fantasy film, and it scores 70 instead of 58. What you gain is piety: The mercy in the cave is the first fact in the picture that is not a fight.

The eight

5
Industry
A grandfather's stories turn out to be a report. The boy has to do more than listen.
7
Household
An orphanage that is actually a shelter, run by a woman who treats the job as absolute.
4
Piety
The loop in time is a kind of spell. Care is the real magic.
7
Courage
He stays for children he could have photographed and left.
6
Republic
A house with rules, because the children are prey without them.
5
Temperance
Some images are ghastly. The film likes a grotesque.
5
Truth
The grandfather was not a liar. Believing him is the turn.
7
Stewardship
Peculiar children are being kept from people who would harvest them.

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Movie · Netflix · 2004

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13 Going on 30

58Watch it awake.

A fairy tale with the right moral: the impressive life was a bad trade.

The review

Jenna wants to skip the awkward years, and the film is kind enough to show her the bill. The woman she becomes has the clothes, the job, and a trail of people she treated as rungs. Waking up inside that woman is a useful fright for a thirteen-year-old, more useful than most films aimed at her.

Watch it with a girl in that age. Ask which of the thirty-year-old's things she would not want if it cost her the friend. The romance is soft. The regret is the point.