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Film · Netflix · 2009

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The Twilight Saga: New Moon

10Leave it.

Grief dressed up as devotion. A cliff is not courage.

Take controlThis scores 10. If you do not want The Twilight Saga: New Moon in the house, the steps are on Netflix. Block it

The review

He leaves to keep her safe, and the film spends the rest of its time admiring how badly she comes apart. That is the tell. A story that loves a girl's collapse more than her recovery is not on her side. The father, again, is the adult. He is worried, present, and written as a man who does not understand the plot. He understands it better than the plot does.

Do not hand this to a young person who is already learning to confuse pain with depth. If you are grown and you watch it, watch it as a warning about the kind of love that needs you diminished.

Journal

Keep The Twilight Saga: New Moon in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 10. 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.

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The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

24 instead of 10

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse is still a romance film, and it scores 24 instead of 10. What you gain is courage: People fight.

The eight

1
Industry
Months pass and nobody seems to owe a day's work.
1
Household
A father keeps trying. She leaves the house for a feeling that will not answer.
1
Piety
The sacred thing is being unable to live without him. That is a small god.
1
Courage
The brave act on offer is a fall. Courage stays and does the next plain thing.
1
Republic
Friends become a waiting room for the romance to resume.
1
Temperance
Self-erasure is the romance. The film savors it.
1
Truth
She hides the danger from the one adult who would stop her.
1
Stewardship
A girl is taught that an empty year is proof she loved well.

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Film · Netflix · 2020

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The Kissing Booth 2

10Leave it.

A kiss treated as a career. The friend is the person who gets shorted.

Take controlThis scores 10. If you do not want The Kissing Booth 2 in the house, the steps are on Netflix. Block it

The review

A girl tries to keep a long-distance boyfriend, a college application, and the friend she has been neglecting, and the film is only truly interested in the first of those. The friend is the moral fact. He is loyal, he is used, and the camera keeps asking you to find that charming.

A household is not a booth you step into for a thrill and step out of when the song changes. If you watch it, watch for the moment someone tells the truth and then notice how quickly the film apologizes for the truth by staging another kiss. The standard does not score the kiss. It scores what the kiss costs the people who were already there.