Movie · Netflix · 2023

You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah

The party is the idol. The apology is the movie. Stay for the apology.

Stacy wants the party to prove she is someone. The film is ordinary until it admits that the party was never the mitzvah. A best friend, a father who is silly and present, and a room she has to walk back into are the actual goods. The middle is a lot of meanness played for a laugh. The end asks her to eat it.

Reasonable for a young teen with you there. Ask, before the dance montage, what the rite is for if you removed the guest list.

The eight

Industry
4/10
The work of a mitzvah is in the story. The planning of a party keeps crowding it out.
Household
6/10
Parents who are trying, a little sister, a best friend who is practically a relative.
Piety
5/10
A real rite is at the center, even while the film is joking about the DJ.
Courage
5/10
She has to stand up in front of people she has embarrassed and tell the truth.
Republic
5/10
A synagogue and a suburb. The community is invited, then used as an audience.
Temperance
4/10
Status, a boy, and humiliation comedy. The film does eventually call them small.
Truth
6/10
The turn is a confession, not a win. That is the right shape.
Stewardship
5/10
A rite exists so a child can be handed to a people. The film remembers that late, but it remembers.

Live historicallyHave one ceremony in your house this month that is not a performance. A meal, a prayer, a thank-you said standing up.

Movie · Disney+ · 2016

Doctor Strange

Pride humbled, then a franchise. The humbling is the part that counts. Adults.

Strange's hands are the moral event. He was a man who would not take the hard case if it would not make him famous. Kamar-Taj offers a rule, a master, and a war against a devouring eternity. He learns enough to bargain cleverly at the end, which is both growth and the old vice in a new cloak. The Ancient One's lie about her power source is the film's best discomfort: institutions hide a theft to keep the work going.

Adults. Take the hospital scenes and the lesson that mastery is obedience to a craft. Leave the cape if it starts to be the character. A gift that does not make you useful to a patient was a performance.

The eight

Industry
8/10
Surgery, then a discipline with hours and a library.
Household
2/10
No one at home. A colleague he scorned.
Piety
4/10
A borrowed mysticism. The useful part is submission to a teacher.
Courage
6/10
He goes back into the fight after he has been reduced.
Republic
4/10
A secret order protecting a world that did not elect it.
Temperance
5/10
His ego is the subject. It is dented, not gone.
Truth
6/10
The master's hypocrisy is exposed. Good.
Stewardship
5/10
A protectorate, abstractly. He is not yet a man who stays with one patient.

Live historicallyIf you are very good at something, practice one hour of it in which nobody knows it was you.