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Film · Fox · 1929

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Sunny Side Up

39Leave it.

Gaynor and Farrell cross a money line, and the night stays pleasant and thin.

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The review

You can hear the early sound still finding its feet. A working-class girl and a rich man, some songs, and a block party. Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, already a pair from the silents, close behind the two biggest musicals of the year. A house can watch it. I wasn't sorry. I also wasn't full.

The romance crosses money. It is pleasant and thin. That's the whole of it, and I was glad nobody pretended otherwise. Their faces are enough for a tired hour. They are not a household.

Journal

Keep Sunny Side Up in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 39. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic 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

West Side Story

51 instead of 39

West Side Story is still a musical film, and it scores 51 instead of 39. What you gain is courage: They walk into the fight knowing what a rumble costs, and they walk in anyway.

The eight

4
Industry
She is working-class and he is rich, and no actual job is ever the point.
4
Household
A romance that crosses money, not a marriage, a parent, or a child.
2
Piety
No conscience is asked to stop the match; the songs carry them through.
3
Courage
Crossing money is the only risk, and the film keeps even that risk pleasant.
4
Republic
A block party is the neighborly piece, and it mostly exists so they can sing.
5
Temperance
Pleasant and thin, with no push to crave another want after the party.
5
Truth
The money gap is stated, and early sound doesn't pretend the story is thick.
4
Stewardship
A block party is what's left, and not much else for the people on that street.

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Film · Warner Bros. · 1972

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Deliverance

39Leave it.

They wanted a wild weekend, and the film never gives that weekend back.

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The review

Four suburban men wanted a last wild weekend on a river a dam is about to bury. They got a trip they were not built for. The river was the point, and then it was not. One of them is changed in a way the film does not heal. That refusal to tidy the ending is the honest part.

Adult. Do not describe the assault, and do not make a contest out of who can sit through it. The dam was already going to spend the river for people who do not live on it. One of them carries that change home. If someone in the room goes quiet, stay with that, not the canoe.

Journal

Keep Deliverance in the record.