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Review: At least "Are you there, God? It's me, Jonah Hill. From Moneyball."
Briefly and pleasantly low stakes; There is no high-stakes drama until the last twenty minutes, but the tone is consistent and manages to reach deeply about faith, or indeed the absence of it, or how difficult it can be for a young man to understand, as Margaret is ultimately put in charge of the teacher, the religion people always struggle with. forced to do
Mostly, it's a story about a school year in the life, it's perfectly content to be about things like, oh, how you fit in with a new group of friends (some more agreeable than others), whether the boys are cute or not, and yet it Actually about something deeper because the film compares Nancy to Margaret and the PTA to Margaret's mother (led by... Nancy's mother): a group isn't inherently a bad thing, but when a person asks for it or really With demands and pressures it can add to the already-there stress of suburban life.
Abby Ryder Fortson is so charming and wonderful in the lead, where your heart always goes out to her and she's funny and sympathetic and sometimes awkward in that 11 to 12 year old way. The film might wrap everything up for me at the end, but when it's all wrapped up, it's all, like, "Will I finally talk to the moose who mows the lawn, or will it be "in the bathroom?" I've never read the book, but it seems like it's probably got everything it needs in the adaptation (although I wonder if things between Margaret and Nancy come up more in the book than here, where things just kind of come to a close. The silent realization of the lie).
If it doesn't reach the heights of the director's previous movie, Age of Seventeen, it's still nothing short of entertaining, funny isn't always funny (okay, the dinner scene with the families on both sides is funny), and it's impressive. Maybe that's not more lifeless IP or candy-coated fast food.
| Download | Quality | Language | Size |
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| G Drive | 480p | English | 335MB |