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Film · Lucasfilm · 1999

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Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace

44Leave it.

The senate is the story. The race is the product. Watch it only for the rot.

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The review

Under the toys there is a real subject: a free government so bored by its own rules that it applauds the man who offers to skip them. That is the phantom. A decade that was about to hand a great deal of trust to confident men could have used the scene.

The film will not stay there. It goes to a race, a joke, a child who is special because of his blood. You can skip it without losing the later, better sentence about fear. If a child already loves the ships, say what the senate did, in one plain minute, and then go outside.

Journal

Keep Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 44. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Temperance 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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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

60 instead of 44

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is still a science-fiction film, and it scores 60 instead of 44. What you gain is household: The whole measure is which man is the father.

The eight

4
Industry
Jedi are diplomats for a scene, then athletes.
4
Household
A mother lets a child go because the order says he is needed.
4
Piety
The Force is a census of the blood. Reverence has become a measurement.
5
Courage
They walk into a negotiation that is already a trap.
6
Republic
A senate, a blockade, a chancellor who is too helpful. The public is the point.
3
Temperance
A podrace and a battle of droids eat the politics.
5
Truth
It does say the peace is a costume. It will not sit in the room where that is true.
4
Stewardship
What a republic hands on here is a procedure someone has already captured.

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Film · Prime Video · 1951

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Alice in Wonderland

44Leave it.

Nonsense is funny until it is a government. She comes back. Good.

Take controlThis scores 44. If you do not want Alice in Wonderland in the house, the steps are on Prime Video. Block it

The review

Wonderland is a place where authority is a temper: a queen who executes, a tea party that never ends, a caterpillar who sneers. Alice is polite and then she is done. The film's best moment is her refusal to take the queen's court as a real court. Curiosity brought her in. Judgment takes her out.

A child can enjoy the jokes. Say that the jokes are not a model of how a house or a school should run. A world that changes the rules to watch you stumble is not a wonder. It is a bully with a teapot.

Journal

Keep Alice in Wonderland in the record.