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Film · 20th Century · 1943

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Stormy Weather

41Leave it.

The story is a thread, the dancing is the reason, and the picture was kept apart.

Take controlThis scores 41. Stormy Weather cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

Twentieth Century put on a revue and called the excuse a romance. The excuse is thin. What holds is a parade: Bill Robinson, Lena Horne, the Nicholas Brothers, Fats Waller, Cab Calloway. The dancing is the work, and it was the best dancing on a screen that year. I believe that after seeing how little plot they were given to stand on. A house can watch the numbers.

Same separation as the other Black musical of 1943. A film apart, so the talent could be seen. I am not going to pile words on that. The studio would not put these performers in the white musicals, and this is the picture they got instead. The romance will not feed anybody. The steps will. If you have a kid who dances, start there, and say why the bill was split.

Journal

Keep Stormy Weather in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 41. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance are the thin ones.

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

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West Side Story

51 instead of 41

West Side Story is still a musical film, and it scores 51 instead of 41. What you gain is truth: The last bodies are not a metaphor the editor rescues.

The eight

8
Industry
The dancing is the work, and it was the best on a screen that year.
2
Household
The romance is only strong enough to hold the numbers, not a marriage.
1
Piety
Nobody is asked to stop; the next number is all the picture requires.
4
Courage
The dancers spend their bodies on numbers a thin plot barely holds.
4
Republic
A film apart was how Robinson, Horne, and the Brothers could be seen.
3
Temperance
A revue keeps selling the next number, and the story never cuts it off.
5
Truth
The romance is a pretext; the separation and the dancing are the facts.
6
Stewardship
The dances are what that year left, and they outlast the thin romance.

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Film · Roadside Attractions · 2026

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Buddy

41Leave it.

Forced cheer is a cage. The child who says no is the one the show cannot bear.

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The review

Inside a 1990s children's program, an orange unicorn leads the songs. A boy will not join the dance. He vanishes, and the host tells the others he has gone to a perfect city. Another child finds what he left, and it is not a postcard. The public story stops at the crack: the cheer was the lock, and the no was the thing the lock could not allow.

Do not put this in front of a child who still loves a show like it. The measure is for the adult who presses play. A smile that punishes the child who will not wear it is not friendship. It is a host.

Journal

Keep Buddy in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 41. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Republic 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.

Consider this

Goosebumps

54 instead of 41

Goosebumps is still a horror film, and it scores 54 instead of 41. What you gain is temperance: Meddling is how it starts.