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The School for Good and Evil

49Watch it awake.

The question is the right question. The movie answers it with a wardrobe.

The review

Sophie wants the story that flatters her. Agatha is filed under witch because she does not. The school is a machine for that filing, and the film is sharp enough to hate the machine for an hour. Then it spends the second hour on transformations, a prince, and a last battle, which is how a fantasy tells you it ran out of nerve.

Watchable at thirteen if you are willing to pause on the sort: who decided, and what did it cost the girl who believed the decision. Do not let the gowns be the lesson.

Journal

Keep The School for Good and Evil in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 49. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Piety 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 Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

61 instead of 49

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is still a fantasy film, and it scores 61 instead of 49. What you gain is industry: Going into the hoard alone is the job he was hired for.

The eight

4
Industry
A school, mostly of gowns and fights. Study is a montage.
6
Household
The friendship is the spine. Parents are the door they left through.
3
Piety
Good and evil are houses, then costumes. A creed never arrives.
6
Courage
Each girl refuses the role the school hands her. That refusal is the courage.
5
Republic
An institution sorting children. The sort is the villainy.
5
Temperance
PG-13 and long. The violence is storybook until it isn't.
6
Truth
It says the label was a lie. It is less sure what the truth would require.
4
Stewardship
A fairy tale ought to hand a child a standard. This one hands a look.

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13: The Musical

49Watch it awake.

The party is the idol again. The songs are fun. The rite is trying to climb out from under them.

The review

Evan Goldman moves, his parents have split, and he tries to buy a new life with invitations. The musical is cheerful about the scheme and, late, ashamed of it in the way these stories are ashamed: a song, a correction, a party that still happens. Pair it with the Sandler bat mitzvah film already on the desk. Same lesson, more rhymes.

Fine at thirteen. Ask what the ceremony is for if the popular boy does not come.

Journal

Keep 13: The Musical in the record.