Child’s Play (2019)
Directed by: Lars Klevberg
Starring: Aubrey Plaza, Mark Hamill, Gabriel Bateman, Brian Tyree Henry
Rated: R for Bloody Horror Violence, and Language Throughout
Running Time: 1 h 30 m
TMM Score: 3 stars out of 5
STRENGTHS: Some Humor, Some Horror
WEAKNESSES: It’s Pretty Silly
A 2019 reboot of the 1988 slasher classic revolving around a killer doll named Chucky.
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Widows (2018)
Directed by: Steve McQueen
Starring: Viola Davis, Liam Neeson, Daniel Kaluuya, Brian Tyree Henry, Colin Farrell, Robert Duvall, Elizabeth Debicki, Jacki Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez, Jon Bernthal, Cynthia Erivo, Lukas Haas
Rated: R for Violence, Language Throughout, and Some Sexual Content/Nudity
Running Time: 2 h 9 m
TMM Score: 4.5 stars out of 5
STRENGTHS: Writing, Directing, Editing, Acting
WEAKNESSES: -
Four women with nothing in common except a debt left by their dead husbands’ criminal activities take fate into their own hands.
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Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse (2018)
Directed by: Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman
Starring: Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld, Mahershala Ali, Brian Tyree Henry, Lily Tomlin, Zoe Kravitz, John Mulaney, Nicolas Cage, Liv Schreiber, Chris Pine
Rated: PG for Frenetic Sequences of Animated Action Violence, Thematic Elements, and Mild Language
Running Time: 1 h 57 m
TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5
STRENGTHS: Animation, Story, Meta-Writing, Crazy Freaking Visuals
WEAKNESSES: -
After Peter Parker is killed, a device opens a portal between multiple dimensions, allowing multiple versions of Spider-Man into new Spider-Man Miles Morales’s version of New York.
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