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Film · MGM · 1934

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The Thin Man

40Leave it.

They like each other, which is rare, and the drinking never stops.

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The review

A retired detective and his rich wife spend Christmas teasing each other and solving a murder. William Powell and Myrna Loy. The marriage is the pleasure. The case is the excuse. They like each other, which is rarer than the mystery, and that is why a series started. A house can watch it. I liked them, which is how this one gets past you.

The drinking never stops. I need that said in the same breath as the charm. Nobody in the picture puts it down, and the holiday keeps offering another. Watch them for the marriage if you want the company. Don't leave it on as a picture of how a witty couple ought to live.

Journal

Keep The Thin Man in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 40. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Piety and Courage 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.

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Knives Out

61 instead of 40

Knives Out is still a comedy film, and it scores 61 instead of 40. What you gain is temperance: The comedy is sharp and it is aimed at greed, not at the weak.

The eight

3
Industry
He is retired, and the murder case is only the excuse.
8
Household
The marriage is the pleasure, and they actually like each other.
3
Piety
A murder is solved, and nobody is stopped from the next drink.
3
Courage
They tease through a Christmas murder without risking the marriage.
4
Republic
A Christmas killing is owed an answer, and the case is only the excuse.
1
Temperance
The drinking never stops, and the film never asks them to quit.
6
Truth
They like each other for real, and a murder still has to be solved.
4
Stewardship
A fond marriage remains, and so does drinking that never stops.

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Film · Touchstone · 1998

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Armageddon

40Leave it.

A father and a crew. The world-ending is a fireworks show. The sacrifice is asserted, not earned.

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The review

Rough men who can do a physical thing are sent to do it in space because the polished men cannot. That is a populist feeling the film is not wrong to have. A father who has been absent tries to bless a marriage before he dies. Those are human scraps.

The scraps are tied to a firework. You will be told when to cry. You do not have to. If the house wants a film about a crew and a real cost, Private Ryan is the adult one and Apollo stories exist. This is a cheer. Leave it.

Journal

Keep Armageddon in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 40. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship 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.

Consider this

Doctor Strange

50 instead of 40

Doctor Strange is still a action film, and it scores 50 instead of 40. What you gain is temperance: His ego is the subject.