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Film · MGM · 2006

Casino Royale

Casino Royale

43Leave it.

The poker is craft. The lesson they want is a hardening. Adults, and do not applaud the hardening.

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The review

This is the Bond film that remembers a job is a series of choices with bodies attached. The card game is wonderful craft: reading a face, managing a sum, staying when you are losing. That part could teach a teenager something about nerve.

Then the education is completed by a woman's death, so the brand can have its armor back. Do not call that grown-up. Call it the old machine restarting. Watch the table if you watch it. Refuse the moral they wrote on her grave.

Journal

Keep Casino Royale in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 43. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

  1. 7Industry
  2. 3Household
  3. 2Piety
  4. 6Courage
  5. 3Republic
  6. 4Temperance
  7. 6Truth
  8. 3Stewardship

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

Skyfall

54 instead of 43

Skyfall is still a action film, and it scores 54 instead of 43. What you gain is republic: A public hearing.

The eight

  1. 7
    Industry

    He watches the table. The work of the spy, for once, is attention.

  2. 3
    Household

    He begins to love a woman. The plot needs her dead more than it needs the love.

  3. 2
    Piety

    No creed. Queen and country are a letterhead.

  4. 6
    Courage

    He stays in a game that will ruin him if he flinches.

  5. 3
    Republic

    Governments are accounts. The public is offscreen.

  6. 4
    Temperance

    The violence is mean and not lingered on as a joke. It is still the solution.

  7. 6
    Truth

    The film admits he is a blunt instrument, and that someone is trying to make him blunter.

  8. 3
    Stewardship

    What they leave him is a man who will not trust the next woman.

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After it, say what the story needed her death for, and whether that need was good.

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Live Historic · Casino Royale · 43IMDb tt0381061

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Film · Paramount · 2016

13 Hours

13 Hours

43Leave it.

A night, a compound, a political argument wearing a battle. Adults. Do not let the argument be settled by the gunfire.

Take controlThis scores 43. 13 Hours cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

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The review

On September 11, 2012, the American compound in Benghazi was attacked and four Americans were killed, including the ambassador. The contractors at a nearby CIA annex fought through the night. That much a house should know. Michael Bay's film knows how to film a roof. It does not know how to handle a disputed record, and it does not try. Everyone who hesitates is a villain. Everyone who shoots is a truth-teller.

Adults, and even then I would rather they read two accounts than watch one bay of muzzle flash. If you do watch it, separate the bravery of the men on the annex from the brief the film is writing. Bravery is not a party. A dead ambassador is not a talking point. The film wants both of those sentences to be false. They are not.

Journal

Keep 13 Hours in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 43. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

  1. 6Industry
  2. 3Household
  3. 2Piety
  4. 7Courage
  5. 4Republic
  6. 3Temperance
  7. 5Truth
  8. 4Stewardship

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

The Covenant

63 instead of 43

The Covenant is still a war film, and it scores 63 instead of 43. What you gain is household: A wife and a child are why the interpreter cannot simply be brave in the abstract.

The eight

  1. 6
    Industry

    Security work is a job. The film is good at the geography of a compound and bad at everything political.

  2. 3
    Household

    Wives on a laptop. Home is a screen in a safe room.

  3. 2
    Piety

    No reverence. The team is the faith.

  4. 7
    Courage

    Staying on the roof is courage. The film is right about the length of the night.

  5. 4
    Republic

    A real failure of protection. The film turns the failure into a brief for one faction.

  6. 3
    Temperance

    Michael Bay films the tracer fire as beauty. That is the wrong eye.

  7. 5
    Truth

    The night happened. The meaning of the night is more contested than the movie can admit.

  8. 4
    Stewardship

    What it leaves is heat. Heat is not a finding.

Live historically

Read one account of that night that was not made by the filmmaker, and note where they differ.

Where to watch

Finding the page.

Live Historic · 13 Hours · 43IMDb tt4172430

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The next title is the one nearest what this house keeps, then the measure where it is thin. Nothing here is a crowd. It does not leave this device.

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