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**Directed by: David Yates**
**Starring: Eddie Redmanyne, Johnny Depp, Zoe Krzvitz,Ezra Miller, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Jude Law, Brontis Jodorowsky**
**Rated: PG-13 for Some Sequences of Fantasy Action**
**Running Time: 2 h 14 m**
**TMM Score: 2.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Production Design, Special Effects, Some Acting**
**WEAKNESSES: Jumbled Story, Fan Service Over Substance**

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)

March 11, 2019

Wizard Newt Scamander finds himself wrapped up in an adventure that pits him and his friends against the evil Grindelwald.

Mortal Engines (2018)

March 11, 2019

In a post apocalyptic steampunk world where cities are mobile and consume smaller cities to survive, two people try to stop a conspiracy.

Eastern Promises (2007)

March 8, 2019

A London midwife delivers a baby for a dying teenage prostitute. When she attempts to find the family of the child, she finds herself dealing with a violent Russian mob family.

MV5BOTkxN2NkMjEtNjdlMC00OWFlLTlmNDctOTUwOTM1ZDNjOTc4XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNTExNjk5Mzc@._V1_.jpg — Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (1956)

Directed by: Hiroshi Inagaki
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Kōji Tsuruta, Kaoru Yachigusa, Mariko Okada
Rated: NR
Running Time: 1h 45m
TMM Score: 4.5 out of 5
STRENGTHS: Characters, Story, Themes
WEAKNESSES: Mellow Drama

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (1956)

February 28, 2019

Samurai Musashi, by now an accomplished swordfighter, finds himself at odds with Sasaki Jokiro, a ronin swordsman, when they are both considered for employment with the Shogun.

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**Directed by: Oliver Hirschbiegel**
**Starring: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Juliane Kohler, Thomas Kretchschmann**
**Rated: R for Strong Violence, Disturbing Images, and Some Nudity**
**Running Time: 2 h 36 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Acting, Directing, Writing, Perspective**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

Downfall (2004)

February 18, 2019

The final days of Adolf Hitler in his Berlin bunker as told from the perspective of Traudl Junge, his last secretary.

Alita: Battle Angel (2019)

February 15, 2019

A cyborg without memory searches for herself and her place in a violent and chaotic world.

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Directed by: Hiroshi Inagaki
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Kōji Tsuruta, Mariko Okada, Kaoru Yachigusa
Rated: NR
Running Time: 1h 43m
TMM Score: 4 out of 5
STRENGTHS: Characters, Story, Themes
WEAKNESSES:

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijuji Temple (1955)

February 14, 2019

Musashi, ever the wanderer, continues his journey, dueling and gathering knowledge to become a respectable samurai.

Drive (2011)

February 13, 2019

A stuntman, mechanic, and racecar driver is drawn into the life of his neighbor whose husband is in jail. When a job goes south for the husband, the driver is left to clean up the mess.

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**Directed by: Jacques Audiard**
**Starring: Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif, Leila Bekhti**
**Rated: R for Strong Violence, Sexual Content, Nudity, Language and Drug Material**
**Running Time: 2 h 35 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Directing, Story, Acting**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

A Prophet (2009)

February 11, 2019

A directionless young Franco-Arab man is sent to a French prison where he is taken under the wing of a Corsican Mafioso.

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**Directed by: John Sturges**
**Starring: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence**
**Rated: NR (Suggested PG-13 for Some War Violence)**
**Running Time: 2 h 52 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Characters, Writing, Directing, Story, Acting**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

The Great Escape (1963)

January 21, 2019

Allied prisoners of war plan an escape from a German camp during World War II.

91aPxJCgZzL._RI_.jpg — Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954)

Directed by: Hiroshi Inagaki
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Mariko Okada, Rentarô Mikuni
Rated: NR
Running Time: 1h 33m
TMM Score: 3.5 out of 5
STRENGTHS: Characters, Story, Themes, Color, Japan
WEAKNESSES: Action, Blocking

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954)

January 17, 2019

An aspiring warrior joins the losing side of a feudal war, sending him on a downward spiral as he finds himself a wanted fugitive in the land he once called home.

81nKPIXzkUL._RI_.jpg — Dragonslayer (1981)

**Directed by: Matthew Robbins**
**Starring: Peter MacNicol, Caitlin Clarke, John Hallam**
**Rated: PG**
**Running Time: 1 h 49 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Story, Production Design, Tone**
**WEAKNESSES: Annoying Protagonist, Predictability (?)**

Dragonslayer (1981)

December 20, 2018

A young sorcerer’s apprentice is recruited by knights from a distant land to slay a dragon.

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**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: -**

Widows (2018)

December 19, 2018

Four women with nothing in common except a debt left by their dead husbands’ criminal activities take fate into their own hands.

spider-man-into-the-spider-verse-dom-asm-online-1sht-6072x9000-05-aoj-rgb-1532383689774_1280w.jpg — 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: -**

Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse (2018)

December 18, 2018

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.

The Book of Eli (2010)

December 13, 2018

Through a ravaged post-apocalyptic wasteland, Eli must travel and protect a book he claims is of untold value. Whether or not it is, there's a mad man water baron after it and the promise of what it hold in its pages.

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**Directed by: Jean-Pierre Melville**
**Starring: Alain Delon, Francois Perier, Nathalie Delon**
**Rated: NR**
**Running Time: 1 h 41 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Style, Acting, Directing, Soundtrack**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

Le Samourai (1967)

December 4, 2018

A professional hitman lives a life of solitude in order to keep things simple, but when there is a witness to his latest contract, things get complicated.

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**Directed by: Billy Wilder**
**Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon**
**Rated: Nr (Suggested PG-13 for Risque Humor)**
**Running Time: 2 h 1 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Directing, Acting, Soundtrack**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

Some Like It Hot (1959)

November 30, 2018

Two down on their luck male musicians must fleet Chicago after witnessing a mob hit, disguising themselves as two females for an all girls band playing in Florida.

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**Directed by: Michael Crichton**
**Starring: Richard Benjamin, James Brolin, Yul Brynner**
**Rated: PG**
**Running Time: 1 h 28 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Story, Influence, Meta-Aesthetic**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Drawn Out Moments**

Westworld (1973)

November 28, 2018

Two wealthy friends take a vacation at Westworld, an adult theme park where visitors can live out their fantasies by interacting with robots. Once there, the machines begin to malfunction, and the friends struggle to stay alive.

MV5BODM3MjA3NDM3M15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMDc1NjUwMjI@._V1_.jpg — Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)

**Directed by: Kevin Reynolds**
**Starring: Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Alan Rickman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Christian Slater, Brian Blessed, Nick Brimble, Sean Connery**
**Rated: PG-13**
**Running Time: 2 h 35 m**
**TMM Score: 3 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Fun, Story, Cinematography, Alan Rickman**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Acting, Some Cheesy/ Farfetched Moments**

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)

November 26, 2018

A retelling of the legend of Robin Hood.

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**Directed by: Rob Reiner**
**Starring: Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, Cary Elwes, Andre The Giant, Wallace Shawn, Christopher Guest, Chris Sarandon, Fred Savage, Peter Falk, Billy Crystal**
**Rated: PG**
**Running Time: 1 h 38 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Pretty Much Everything**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

The Princess Bride (1988)

November 23, 2018

While home sick from school, a young boy’s grandfather reads him a book titled, The Princess Bride.

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