ros 1.jpg — Star Wars: Episode IX - Rise of Skywalker (2019)

**Directed By: J.J. Abrams**
**Starring: Mark Hamill, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Anthony Daniels, Naomi Ackie, Domhnall Gleeson, Richard E. Grant, Keri Russell, Joonas Suotamo, Ian McDiarmid**
**Rated: PG-13**
**Run Time: 2h 21m**
**TMM Score: 3 Stars**
**Strengths: Humor, Broad Story Strokes**
**Weakness: CGI, Scene Execution, Predictability**

Star Wars: Episode IX - Rise of Skywalker (2019)

December 20, 2019

With Emperor Palpatine’s presence now looming, Kylo Ren is hunting him down in a power mad frenzy, Rey is drawn to attempting to save Ren, and the entire resistance must band together to defeat an ancient foe, one last time.

fa 1.jpg — Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015)

**Directed By: J.J. Abrams**
Starring: Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Lupita Nyong'o, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, Anthony Daniels, Max von Sydow, Peter Mayhew, Gwendoline Christie
**Rated: PG-13**
**Run Time: 2h 18m**
**TMM Score: 5 Stars**
**Strengths: Feels Like Star Wars**
**Weakness: Some Characterizations**

Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015)

December 19, 2019

When an abandoned young woman and a runaway storm trooper befriend a droid which contains a map to Luke Skywalker’s hiding place, they are thrown into the midst of a galactic conflict between good and evil.

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**Directed by: Noah Baumbach**
**Starring: Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, Laura Dern, Ray Liotta, Wallace Shawn**
**Rated: R for Language Throughout and Some Sexual References**
**Running Time: 2 h 16 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Directing, Acting, Themes**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

Marriage Story (2019)

December 12, 2019

A married couple learns how to live with each other as they come to terms with their divorce and what that means for the future of their child.

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**Directed by: Scott Z. Burns**
**Starring: Adam Driver, Annette Bening, Jon Hamm, Corey Stoll, Maura Tierney, Michael C Hall, Tim Blake Nelson**
**Rated: R for Some Scenes of Inhumane Treatment and Torture, and Language**
**Running Time: 1 h 59 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Story, Acting, Themes**
**WEAKNESSES: Pacing, Length**

The Report (2019)

December 11, 2019

A senate staffer is tasked to lead an investigation into the CIA’s ‘Enhanced Interrogation Techniques.”

The Dead Don't Die (2019)

June 24, 2019

Centerville is just what it sounds like; an average small town. When two of its citizens are found dead and half eaten, it can only be one thing. Some sort of animal. Or several. Or maybe, ZOMBIES!!!

dq 1.jpg — The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)

**Directed By: Terry Gilliam**
**Starring: Adam Driver, Jonathon Pryce, Joana Ribeiro, Stellan Skarsgard, Olga Kurylenko**
**Rated: R**
**Run Time: 2h 12m**
**TMM Score: 5 Stars**
**Strengths: Acting, Production Design, Grand Concept**
**Weakness: Length**

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)

May 2, 2019

Toby, a disillusioned director, recalls his younger days wherein he made a short film as a student, starring a peasant cobbler as Don Quixote. As he flees his current project he and the cobbler are reunited only to discover the cobbler believes he really is Don Quixote still, and Toby begins to slip into insanity himself.

Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

March 25, 2019

Flopping couch to couch, getting underpaid to perform in bars, and hitchhiking to Chicago may seem like the romantic life of a legendary singer but it’s just a week in the life for LLewyn Davis in 1961, New York City.

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**Directed by: Spike Lee**
**Starring: John David Washington, Adam Driver, Topher Grace, Laura Harrier**
**Rated: : R for Language Throughout, Including Racial Epithets, and for Disturbing/Violent Material and Some Sexual References**
**Running Time: 2 h 15 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Acting**
**WEAKNESSES: Pacing, Directing, Heavy-Handedness**

BlacKkKlansman (2018)

August 20, 2018

Based on the true story of Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer in Colorado Springs, who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan.

Star Wars: Episode VIII: The Last Jedi

**Directed by: Rian Johnson**
**Starring: Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Mark Hamill**
**Rated: PG-13 for Sequences of Sci-fi Action and Violence**
**Running Time: 2 H 32 M**
**TMM: 5 out of 5 Stars**
**Strengths: Everything**
**Weaknesses: -**

Star Wars: Episode VIII: The Last Jedi (2017)

January 1, 2018

The seventh entry in the Star Wars saga.

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