The Edge of Seventeen (2016)
Directed by: Kelly Fremon Craig
Starring: Hailee Steinfeld, Haley Lu Richardson, Blake Jenner, Kyra Sedgwick, Woody Harrelson, Hayden Szeto
Rated: R for Sexual Content, Language and Some Drinking- All Involving Teens
Running Time: 1 h 44 m
TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5
STRENGTHS: Writing, Acting, Humor
WEAKNESSES: A Few Cheesy Moments
Life gets more complicated for a high school student after her best friend starts dating her brother.
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Bumblebee (2018)
Directed by: Travis Knight
Starring: Hailee Steinfeld, John Cena, Jorge Lendeborg Jr.
Rated: PG-13 for Sequences of Sci-Fi Action Violence
Running Time: 1 h 54 m
TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5
STRENGTHS: Simplicity, Humor, Hailee Steinfeld, Lack of Michael Bay
WEAKNESSES: Some Dialogue, Predictable
Eighteen-year-old Charlie finds out her new car is actually a robot alien fugitive.
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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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