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Film · 20th Century · 1944

Laura

Name: Laura scores 43 — Live Historic
Item: Laura
Rating: 43
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43Leave it.

He investigates a murder and falls for a picture, which is where it gets creepy.

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The review

The portrait does more work than the suspects do. A detective investigates a woman's murder and falls for her picture. Gene Tierney, Clifton Webb. Adult. Not a family film. The case is not what that room first says, and I am not stacking a second twist on it.

The creep is the possession of her image. He has a real job and he is also fixed on the picture of the woman the job is about. I don't admire that, however neat the mystery feels. Put it on with another grown person. If the portrait starts to matter more than the woman, say it out loud. Looking is not the same as doing right by her.

Journal

Keep Laura 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 Courage and Temperance and Stewardship 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

Murder on the Orient Express

53 instead of 43

Murder on the Orient Express is still a mystery film, and it scores 53 instead of 43. What you gain is household: A kidnapped, murdered child is the wound behind every passenger's reason.

The eight

7
Industry
A detective on a murder is a real job, and he stays on the case.
2
Household
No marriage and no child. A portrait stands in for a person.
3
Piety
Nothing in him stops the fall for a picture of the woman.
4
Courage
He stays with a case the room has already told wrong.
6
Republic
A murder is a debt to the woman and to the law that sent him.
3
Temperance
Falling for the portrait is the want, and the film stays on it.
6
Truth
The room's first account does not hold, and believing it costs.
3
Stewardship
You leave with the creep of a man possessing a woman's image.

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Film · Paramount · 2016

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.

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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.