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Film: Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

Better than it should be - a strange but funny premise of body-switching teens into alter egos in the game. The best parts are how these bodies are in tension with their minds and prior personas.

Film: Holiday 1938

What makes the film still feel different from most is that it has a true philosophical question at the core, about how life ought to be lived, the trappings of generational wealth, and one feels the characters actually wrestling with questions relevant to their own lives and the time. The father character as antagonist is quite unique: part monster, part sympathetic, part a loser, part a titan, part behind the times, and maybe ultimately, ahead of his time.