Movie · Netflix · 2021
Moxie
51Or leave it.Not an average of critics. Eight questions, one house.
Speaking up is the right plot. The film is sure the shout is the whole of courage.
The glance
Household, Piety, Temperance are the thin ones.
This phone
Set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
After the credits
Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?
Amy Poehler's film starts from a real injury: boys ranking girls, a school that calls it a joke, a girl who has been polite about it for too long. The zine is a good instrument. What the movie cannot resist is the idea that volume is virtue, and that a cause excuses the mess it makes of the people standing next to you.
Right for a thirteen-year-old who has already met the list, spoken or unspoken. Watch it with her. Ask what the zine got right, and who it used as fuel.
Folio
Keep Moxie in the record.
The date, your number, and one sentence.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
The eight
Industry
5/10
A zine is work: paper, a risk, a next issue.
Household
4/10
A mother who was braver once. The house is a backdrop to the school.
Piety
3/10
Conviction without a law above the self.
Courage
7/10
She puts her name, eventually, on a thing that could get her hurt.
Republic
6/10
A school is a small republic, and the list was a tyranny.
Temperance
4/10
PG-13 talk, a party, the body as a scoreboard. Named, not lingered on.
Truth
7/10
The list was a lie about the girls. Publishing it is a kind of truth.
Stewardship
5/10
A habit of saying the hard thing. Also a habit of the anonymous pile-on.
Live historicallyIf something in her school is a public lie, help her say it with her name on it.