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Film · Paramount · 1932

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Shanghai Express

31Leave it.

A romance in a train corridor, adult, and not a portrait of China.

Take controlThis scores 31. Shanghai Express cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

Dietrich boards with a reputation and meets the British officer who left her. The train runs through a civil war in China. A warlord takes hostages. Sternberg directed. Adult. I would watch it with another grown person, not with children. A house can watch it on those terms. The desire is the plot.

China is a corridor for a romance, not a portrait of the country. I won't pretend a warlord and a reunion taught us the place. The hostages make the danger real, and the picture spends that danger on whether the two of them still want each other. It was a hit. It is still a passageway with a map on the wall.

Journal

Keep Shanghai Express in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 31. 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.

Consider this

Voicemails for Isabelle

44 instead of 31

Voicemails for Isabelle is still a drama film, and it scores 44 instead of 31. What you gain is stewardship: What she is trying to keep is a voice.

The eight

3
Industry
An officer and a warlord are used to stage a reunion.
4
Household
He left her, and the train gives them romance, not a home.
3
Piety
Desire runs the plot, and his leaving her did not hold.
4
Courage
Hostages carry the danger that the romance then spends.
2
Republic
Civil war in China is the hallway, not the subject.
3
Temperance
The desire is the plot, and the picture keeps feeding it.
4
Truth
She boards with a reputation; he is the man who left.
2
Stewardship
A romance remains; the country was only the corridor.

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Film · Prime Video · 2026

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Buddy

31Leave it.

A mascot is not a companion. Wait for a story before you clear a Saturday.

Take controlThis scores 31. If you do not want Buddy in the house, the steps are on Prime Video. Block it

The review

The poster is a face designed to be kept. Films like this sometimes hide a real loneliness under the plush, and sometimes they are only the plush. The desk cannot see which from the tile, and will not invent a lesson the marketing department did not bother to print.

If you play it, watch the adult in the frame. A story where a creature teaches a man to stay is worth a conversation. A story where the toy is the point is an advertisement. You do not owe an advertisement your evening.

Journal

Keep Buddy in the record.