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Moxie

51Watch it awake.

Speaking up is the right plot. The film is sure the shout is the whole of courage.

The review

Amy Poehler's film starts from a real injury: boys ranking girls, a school that calls it a joke, a girl who has been polite about it for too long. The zine is a good instrument. What the movie cannot resist is the idea that volume is virtue, and that a cause excuses the mess it makes of the people standing next to you.

Right for a thirteen-year-old who has already met the list, spoken or unspoken. Watch it with her. Ask what the zine got right, and who it used as fuel.

Journal

Keep Moxie in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 51. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Temperance are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

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The eight

5
Industry
A zine is work: paper, a risk, a next issue.
4
Household
A mother who was braver once. The house is a backdrop to the school.
3
Piety
Conviction without a law above the self.
7
Courage
She puts her name, eventually, on a thing that could get her hurt.
6
Republic
A school is a small republic, and the list was a tyranny.
4
Temperance
PG-13 talk, a party, the body as a scoreboard. Named, not lingered on.
7
Truth
The list was a lie about the girls. Publishing it is a kind of truth.
5
Stewardship
A habit of saying the hard thing. Also a habit of the anonymous pile-on.

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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

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