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Film · Warner Bros. · 2012

Argo

Name: Argo scores 53 — Live Historic
Item: Argo
Rating: 53
Author: Live Historic

53Watch it awake.

The escape is true. The film moves too much courage onto Hollywood. Adults, awake.

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The review

Six people are trapped in a city that will kill them if the door opens wrong. The fear in that house is the real film. A false film crew is a clever tool, and cleverness under fear is worth watching.

The picture cannot resist giving the movies the medal. Canadians, diplomats, and the people in the back room did the longer brave thing. Watch it, then put the credit back where the history had it. Older children can take the airport. Tell them who is missing from the applause.

Journal

Keep Argo 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 Truth are the thin ones.

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

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

Consider this

Oppenheimer

65 instead of 53

Oppenheimer is still a history film, and it scores 65 instead of 53. What you gain is truth: The hearing is about lies, loyalty oaths, and a truth that arrived after the use.

The eight

7
Industry
A cover story has to be built: names, calls, a fake movie. The craft is the suspense.
4
Household
The six are a fragile household in a back room. Their families are offscreen.
3
Piety
Faith is local color. The prayer is not the plan.
7
Courage
They walk into an airport with nothing but a story.
6
Republic
A state hides them, and a state hunts them. Diplomats do a quieter brave thing than the film likes.
6
Temperance
The tension is earned by waiting, not by a body count.
4
Truth
It compresses a rescue so that a movie man can be the hinge. The compression flatters the movies.
5
Stewardship
What they want is to get home. That want is clean.

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Film · Prime Video · 1983

A Christmas Story

53Watch it awake.

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

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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.