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Film · Warner Bros. · 2012

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The Dark Knight Rises

53Watch it awake.

The climb is the story. The speech about the people is a costume. Keep the climb. Distrust the revolution that needs a bomb.

The review

Bruce has to become a person who can stand before he can be a symbol, and the pit is the honest half of the picture: no rope, no myth, a body that has to do the next inch. Bane offers Gotham a justice that is a prison with better lighting. The film sees the offer as a fraud. It is less sure-handed about its own ending, which wants a resurrection and a clean escape and a boy's inheritance all at once.

Adults and older teenagers. Watch it for the climb and for a cop who stays a cop when the myth is gone. Do not take the revolution's courtroom as a model of the people rising. A people locked in and handed a bomb are not free.

Journal

Keep The Dark Knight Rises in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 53. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety 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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Everything Everywhere All at Once

63 instead of 53

Everything Everywhere All at Once is still a action film, and it scores 63 instead of 53. What you gain is household: A marriage that has gone dull and is not therefore false.

The eight

6
Industry
A broken body rehabbed. A cop who still goes to work. The city has trades, not only masks.
4
Household
An orphan, a butler, a woman with her own grievance. Houses are damaged and still present.
2
Piety
No faith. The pit is a test of will, not of prayer.
8
Courage
He climbs without the rope. Then he goes back into a city that thinks he failed it.
6
Republic
A police force in the sewer, a show trial, a public lied to. The civic wreck is the subject.
4
Temperance
The length and the explosions are an appetite. The quiet of the climb is better.
6
Truth
Bane's liberation is a lie with a fuse. The film does not ask you to believe the speech.
6
Stewardship
He tries to leave the city a future that is not his name. The film is only partly honest about whether he does.

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Film · Prime Video · 1983

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A Christmas Story

53Watch it awake.

Keep it. Desire, a tangent-prone father, and a feast that survives the disaster.

The review

Ralphie's want is excessive and completely recognizable. The Old Man's pride in a hideous lamp is the adult version of the same excess, which is why the film is fair. The mother's management of both is the uncredited heroism. There is a meanness in a few of the jokes that a house can talk over. The Chinese Christmas dinner, when the turkey dies, is the scene that knows what a feast is: the people, relocated, still fed.

Watch it every year if you want. Skip any bit that is only a wince. Keep the pink bunny and the humility it requires.

Journal

Keep A Christmas Story in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 53. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Courage and Republic are the thin ones.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

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Back to the Future

65 instead of 53

Back to the Future is still a comedy film, and it scores 65 instead of 53. What you gain is courage: George stands up.