91egUI3OMML._RI_.jpg — The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)

**Directed by: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise**
**Starring: Tom Hulce, Demi Moore, Tony Jay**
**Rated: G**
**Running Time: 1h 35m**
**TMM Score: 4.5 Stars**
**STRENGTHS: Dark Setting, Beautiful Animation, Good Message, Great Music**
**WEAKNESSES: Overly Silly Characters, Some Strange Writing Choices**

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)

May 9, 2019

The Disney adaptation of Victor Hugo’s classic novel.

sb+1.jpg — Sleeping Beauty (1959)

**Directed By: Clyde Geronimi**
**Starring: Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley**
**Rated: G**
**Run Time: 1h 15m**
**TMM Score: 4**
**Strengths: Gorgeous Animation**
**Weakness: Slow, Uneven Tone**

Sleeping Beauty (1959)

May 8, 2019

When Princess Aurora is born he is blessed by three fairies but also cursed by an evil sorceress. Will the prince, fairies, and forces of good triumph over evil? Of course. This is a Disney film.

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**Directed by: Tony Bancroft, Barry Cook**
**Starring: Ming-Na Wen, Eddie Murphy, BD Wong, Soon-Tek Oh, James Hong, Pat Morita, Miguel Ferrer**
**Rated: G**
**Running Time: 1 h 28 m**
**TMM Score: 4.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Story, Music, Animation Style, Song, Excitement, Themes**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

Mulan (1998)

May 7, 2019

Based on a Chinese legend, about a young girl whom disguises herself as a man to take her ailing father’s place in the army, and in doing so becomes one of China’s greatest heroes.

91wUdrJ0jZL._RI_.jpg — Arctic (2018)

**Directed by: Joe Penna**
**Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Maria Thelma Smáradóttir**
**Rated: PG-13**
**Running Time: 1h 38m**
**TMM Score: 4.5 Stars**
**STRENGTHS: Cinematography, Setting, Mads Mikkelsen**
**WEAKNESSES: Some implausibility**

Arctic (2018)

May 7, 2019

A man’s story of survival in the brutal arctic.

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**Directed by: Wolfgang Reitherman**
**Starring: Brian Bedford, Monica Evans, Phil Harris, Andy Devine, Peter Ustinov, Roger Miller**
**Rated: G**
**Running Time: 1 h 23 m**
**TMM Score: 3 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Some Fun Scenes, Likeable Characters**
**WEAKNESSES: Pacing, Reuses Animation**

Robin Hood (1973)

May 6, 2019

A retelling of the story of Robin Hood and his struggle against the Sherriff of Nottingham starring humanoid animals.

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**Directed by: Fernando Meirelles**
**Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Danny Huston, Bill Nighy, Donald Sumpter, Pete Postlethwaite**
**Rated: R for Language, Some Violent Images and Sexual Content/Nudity**
**Running Time: 2 h 9 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Story, Acting, Editing**
**WEAKNESSES: Pacing During First Half of Second Act**

The Constant Gardener (2005)

May 6, 2019

After his wife is murdered, a British Diplomat living in Africa embarks on a quest to find out why, along the way uncovering a conspiracy that could have deadly impact.

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.

Jabberwocky (1977)

May 1, 2019

Dennis is a young man during the Dark Ages and he is ready to set out on his own. Of course, he sets out to the nearest city only to find that they won’t let anyone in because there are no available jobs. To top it off, there is a monster running loose in the woods killing everyone it meets.

Uncommon Valor (1983)

April 29, 2019

Ten years after his son went MIA in Vietnam, a retired Colonel assembles a private rescue team to storm a POW camp in Laos, where he believes his son is being kept.

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**Directed by: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo**
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Josh Brolin, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Paul Rudd, Brie Larson, Karen Gillian, Tessa Thompson, Bradley Cooper
**Rated: PG-13 for Sequences of Science-Fi Violence and Action, and Some Language**
**Running Time: 3 h 1 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Subversion of Expectations, Character Development, Humor, Special Effects**
**WEAKNESSES: Length, Pacing, Fan Service**

Avengers: Endgame (2019)

April 26, 2019

The remaining Avengers fight to undo the events at the end of “Avengers: Infinity War”.

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**Directed by: Alan Smithee (David Lynch)**
**Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Virginia Madsen, Francesca Annis, Sting, Patrick Stewart, Max Von Sydow, Kenneth McMillan, Jurgen Prochow**
**Rated: PG-13**
**Running Time: 2 h 57 m**
**TMM Score: 2 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: A Valiant Effort**
**WEAKNESSES: Practically Everything**

Dune (Extended Cut) (1984)

April 26, 2019

After a Duke takes over a rich desert planet, forces around the galaxy descend in attempt to dethrone him. Meanwhile, a mysterious prophecy concerns the Duke’s son.

the Passenger.jpg — The Passenger (1975)

**Directed by: Michelangelo Antonioni**
**Starring: Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre, Ian Hendry**
**Rated: PG-13 for Some Violence, Nudity and Language**
**Running Time: 2 h 6 m**
**TMM Score: 4.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Direction, Writing, Acting, Cinematography**
**WEAKNESSES: Pacing**

The Passenger (1975)

April 23, 2019

A war correspondent, frustrated with his work and unable to find the war he’s supposed to cover, takes up the identity of a dead man who looks similar to him, only to find his plan may have many flaws.

Dick Tracy (1990)

April 22, 2019

A comic strip detective finds his life increasingly complicated as he investigates the notorious Big Boy Caprice’s mob.

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**Directed by: Guillermo Del Toro**
**Starring: Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, John Alexander, Seth MacFarlane, Anna Walton, Jeffrey Tambor, Luke Goss, John Hurt**
**Rated: PG-13 for Sequences of Sci-Fi Action and Violence, and Some Language**
**Running Time: 2 h**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Directing, Characters, Writing, Production Design, Expanded World**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Coincidental Moments**

Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)

April 18, 2019

The continuing adventures of Hellboy and his paranormal friends.

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**Directed by: Guillermo Del Toro**
**Starring: Ron Perlman, Doug Jones, Selma Blair, John Hurt, Jeffrey Tambor, Karel Roden**
**Rated: PG-13 for Sci-Fi Action Violence and Frightening Images**
**Running Time: 2 h 12 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Directing, Production Design, Worldbuilding, Writing, Action, Characters**
**WEAKNESSES: Climax, Some Dated Effects**

Hellboy (2004)

April 18, 2019

A demon that was brought from another dimension by Nazis is raised by a secret US organization to protect the world from darkness.

DbawL1rWAAAOZq8.jpg-large.jpg — Crazy Rich Asians (2018)

**Directed by: Jon M. Chu**
**Starring: Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh, Lisa Lu, Awkwafina, Ken Jeong**
**Rated: PG-13 for Suggestive Content and Language**
**Running Time: 2 h**
**TMM Score: 3 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Exploration of Culture, Attacks Classism**
**WEAKNESSES: Formulaic, Glorifies Materialism**

Crazy Rich Asians (2018)

April 15, 2019

An Asian-American economics professor travels to Singapore to meet her boyfriend’s family, and is surprised to find his family is extraordinarily wealthy and class oriented.

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**Directed by: David F. Sandberg**
**Starring: Zachary Levi, Djimon Hounsou, Mark Strong, Jack Dylan Grazer, Asher Angel, Marta Milans, Adam Brody**
**Rated: PG-13 for Intense Sequences of Action, Language, and Suggestive Material**
**Running Time: 2 h 12 m**
**TMM Score: 3 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Acting, Humor, Themes**
**WEAKNESSES: Never Breaks From Superhero Formula, Length**

Shazam! (2019)

April 8, 2019

A fourteen-year-old foster kid is granted new powers that allow him to turn into a superhero.

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**Directed by: Joe Johnston**
**Starring: Billy Campbell, Jennifer Connelly, Alan Arkin,Timothy Dalton, Paul Sorvino, Terry O’Quinn**
**Rated: PG**
**Running Time: 1 h 48 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Nostalgic Tone, Story, Some Acting, Ending**
**WEAKNESSES: Billy Campbell**

The Rocketeer (1991)

April 5, 2019

A young pilot finds a jetpack that allows him to be a masked hero.

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**Directed by: Norman Jewison**
**Starring: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates**
**Rated: NR (Suggested PG-13 for Thematic Material, Mild Language and Violence)**
**Running Time: 1 h 50 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Message, Acting, Story**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Side Acting by Side Characters, Familiar Message**

In the Heat of the Night (1967)

April 4, 2019

An African-American police detective is asked to assist in the investigation of a murder in Sparta, Mississippi, where the police chief and many of the officers are racist.

Bumblebee (2018)

April 1, 2019

Eighteen-year-old Charlie finds out her new car is actually a robot alien fugitive.

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