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Film · 20th Century Fox · 1962

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The Longest Day

65Worth an evening.

Worth the evening for the work of a landing. It is a day of duty, not a romance of war.

The review

June 6, told as a working day. The film cuts among the men who have to get off the boats, the men who planned it, and the men on the other side who did not believe the weather. I am not going to call it a complete history. I will call it one of the few large war pictures of these years that is interested in the job. The job is ugly and particular. A decision about a roadblock matters.

There is less swooning here than the posters of the decade trained people to expect. That is a virtue. Younger teenagers can watch it if someone is willing to say what a beach full of dead men is, and why the order was still the right order. Do not put it on as an action habit. Put it on as a morning a great many families did not get a son back from, and stay long enough to feel the length of the day.

Journal

Keep The Longest Day in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 65. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety are the thin ones.

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

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Hacksaw Ridge

74 instead of 65

Hacksaw Ridge is still a war film, and it scores 74 instead of 65. What you gain is piety: Faith that costs a rank and a rifle.

The eight

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Industry
The landing is logistics, weather, and men doing a job under fire.
3
Household
Households are back on the other shore. This day is the unit, not the kitchen.
4
Piety
A few men pray. The film's piety is mostly the weight of the order they were given.
9
Courage
They get out of the boats. The courage is not a speech from a colonel on a hill.
8
Republic
The debt is public: a continent, and the men sent to open a beach for it.
6
Temperance
It does not linger on glory. The day is long, and the film lets it be long.
7
Truth
Both staffs are shown making errors. The heroism does not require the enemy to be cartooned.
7
Stewardship
A house can inherit the cost of the boats, which is the right memory of that morning.

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A Little Princess

65Worth an evening.

Keep it. Imagination here is a way of telling the truth about a person's worth, not an escape from the attic.

The review

Sara's kindness in the attic is the film's argument, and it is not cheap because the film lets her be hungry. Miss Minchin worships money and calls it standards. The other girls learn which authority is real. There is a softness to the ending that a strict reading of the book might resist, and the softness is a mercy for a child audience. The picture to keep is the one where she gives the bun away.

A young house can watch this whenever someone has started ranking the children. Rank is the villain.

Journal

Keep A Little Princess in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 65. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety is the thin one.

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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Spirited Away

78 instead of 65

Spirited Away is still a family film, and it scores 78 instead of 65. What you gain is industry: She earns the rescue by labor.