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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.

s 1.jpg — **Synecdoche New York (2008)**

**Directed By: Charlie Kaufman**
**Starring: Philip Seymore Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener, Tom Noonan, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Diane Wiest**
**Rated: R**
**Run Time: 2h 4m**
**TMM Score: 5 Stars**
**Strengths: Acting, Emotional Connection, Surrealism**
**Weakness: Challenging Tone**

Synecdoche New York (2008)

April 3, 2019

Caden Cotard is a depressed and sick individual. As a theater director, his introspection often takes the form of a play but as his introspection grows, so does his depression, loneliness, and the scale of his experimental new play.

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**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**

Bumblebee (2018)

April 1, 2019

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

MV5BMTY1NjM0MzgxMV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNDc4NTY0NjM@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,640,1000_AL_.jpg — Vice (2018)

**Directed by: Adam McKay**
**Starring: Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Steve Carell, Sam Rockwell, Justin Kirk, Jesse Plemons, Shea Whigham, Tyler Perry, Alfred Molina, Naomi Watts**
**Rated: R for Language and Some Violent Images**
**Running Time: 2 h 12 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Acting, Directing, Some Writing**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Writing, Ending, Heavy-Handedness**

Vice (2018)

March 29, 2019

The story of Dick Cheney, the most powerful Vice President in American History, and the way he forever changed the Global political landscape.

O Brother, Where Art Thou (2000)

March 28, 2019

Everett, Pete, and Delmar aren’t just down on their luck during the Great Depression. They are chained together in a chain gang, till they break free in an attempt to find buried treasure that is.

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**Directed by: Jeff Tremaine**
**Starring: Colson Baker, Douglas Booth, Daniel Webber, Iwan Rheon, David Costabile**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 1 h 48 m**
**TMM Score: 3 Stars**
**STRENGTHS: Good Music, Solid Performances, Very Entertaining**
**WEAKNESSES: Messy Story, Clunky Dialogue, Sloppy Direction, Not Enough Grit**

The Dirt (2019)

March 27, 2019

The rise of the notorious 80s rock band, Motley Crue.

91hTLjwhdrL._SY606_.jpg — **Barton Fink (1991)**

**Directed by: Joel Coen**
**Starring: John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis**
**Rated: R for Language, and Some Scenes of Violence**
**Running Time: 1 h 56 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Acting, Dark Humor, Mysterious**
**WEAKNESSES: None**

Barton Fink (1991)

March 27, 2019

Barton has hit the big time after his hit play lands him a big Hollywood writing contract but is the Hollywood dream everything an artist could ever hope for?

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**Directed by: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen**
**Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Sari Lennick, Fred Melamed, Aaron Wolff**
**Rated: R for Language, Some Sexuality/Nudity and Brief Violence**
**Running Time: 1 h 46 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Acting, Writing, Directing, Themes, Ending**
**WEAKNESSES:-**

A Serious Man (2009)

March 26, 2019

A college physics teacher tries to find meaning in his life while it unravels before his eyes.

The Big Lebowski (1998)

March 25, 2019

Slacker ‘The Dude’ navigates LA trying to untangle a mess of a conspiracy.

ah+1.jpg — Animal House (1978)

Directed By: John Landis
Starring: John Belushi, Stephen Furst, Karen Allen, Mark Metcalf, Donald Sutherland
Rated: R
Run Time: 1h 49m
TMM Score: 4 Stars
Strengths: Performances
Weakness: Taste in Humor Has Changed

Animal House (1978)

March 7, 2019

The College Dean has had enough. He’s going to expel every member of the raucous, crass, and rebellious Delta House but this is no group of guys to take things lying down.

bb 1.jpg — The Blues Brothers (1980)

Directed By: John Landis
Starring: John Belushi, Dan Akroyd, Carrie Fisher, Aretha Franklin, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, James Brown
Rated: R
Run Time: 2h 13m
TMM Score: 5 Stars
Strengths: Performances
Weakness: Nothing

The Blues Brothers (1980)

March 6, 2019

When Jake Blues is released from prison, he and his brother Elwood are set on a mission from God, to save the orphanage they grew up in without tainting any of the money through illicit means.

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**Directed by: Steven Knight**
**Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Diane Lane, Jason Clarke, Djimon Hounsou**
**Rated: R for Language throughout, Sexual Content, and Some Bloody Images**
**Running Time: 1 h 46 m**
**TMM Score: 2 Stars**
**STRENGTHS: So Bad It’s Good**
**WEAKNESSES: Laughable Dialogue, Confusing Direction, Obscure Characters, Absurd Twists, Bizarre Writing**

Serenity (2019)

March 5, 2019

A lonely fisherman takes a peculiar job from a mysterious woman.

v 1.jpg — Viridiana (1961)

**Directed by: Luis Bunuel**
**Starring: Silvia Pinal, Francisco Rabal**
**Rated: Not Rated**
**Running Time: 1h 30m**
**TMM Score: 3 Stars**
**STRENGTHS: Themes**
**WEAKNESSES: Dark Point of View**

Viridiana (1961)

March 1, 2019

When Viridiana, a nun on the verge of taking her final vows, is sent home to visit a widowed uncle, he falls in love with her and schemes how he might win her affections. Or force them if need be.

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**Directed by: Peter Farrelly**
**Starring: Viggo Mortnesen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cadellini**
**Rated: PG-13 for Thematic Content, Including Racial Epithets, Smoking, Some Violence and Suggestive Material**
**Running Time: 2 h 10 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Acting, Writing**
**WEAKNESSES: Familiar Themes, Familiar Storyline, Familiar Character Arcs, White Savior Ending**

Green Book (2018)

February 26, 2019

An Italian-American bouncer becomes a driver for an African American classical pianist through the 1960s American South.

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**Directed by: Hirokazu Koreeda**
**Starring: Lily Franky, Sakura Ando, Kirin Kiki, Mayu Matsuoka, Jyo Kairi, Miyu Sasaki**
**Rated: R for Some Sexual Content and Nudity**
**Running Time: 2 h 1 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Story, Acting, Themes**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

Shoplifters (2018)

February 25, 2019

A ragtag group of shoplifters take in a little girl they find outside in the cold.

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**Directed by: Dan Gilroy**
**Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Zawe Ashton, Toni Collette, Natalia Dyer, Daveed Diggs, John Malkovich**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 1 h 53 m**
**TMM Score: 2.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Acting, Theme**
**WEAKNESSES: Unlikeable Characters, Finding a Tone**

Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)

February 8, 2019

After a series of paintings by a recently deceased unknown artist are discovered, a group of artists try to get rich off the artist’s work, only to find the artwork fighting back.

sb 2.jpg — The Sisters Brothers (2018)

**Directed by: Jaques Audiard**
**Starring: John C. Reilly, Joaquin Phoenix, Jake Gyllenhaal, Riz Ahmed**
**Rated: R Rated**
**Running Time: 2h 1m**
**TMM Score: 3 Stars**
**STRENGTHS: Acting**
**WEAKNESSES: Unfocused Story and Tone**

The Sisters Brothers (2018)

February 6, 2019

The Gold Rush is one but for famous bounty hunter brothers, Charlie and Eli Sisters, that means less prospecting and more tracking down a chemist with a gold revealing formula.

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**Directed by: Marielle Heller**
**Starring: Melissa McCarthy, Richard E Grant, Ben Falcone**
**Rated: R for Language Including Some Sexual References, and Brief Drug Use**
**Running Time: 1 h 46 m**
**TMM Score: 4.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Acting, Story**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)

February 4, 2019

Based on the true story of Lee Israel, a best selling author that became a literary forger when her work fell out of style.

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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.

MV5BMTg1NzQwMDQxNV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNDg2NDYyNjM@._V1_.jpg — The Favourite (2018)

**Directed by: Yorgos Lanthimos**
**Starring: Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz, Nicolas Hoult**
**Rated: R for Strong Sexual Content, Nudity, and Language**
**Running Time: 1 h 59 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Directing, Characters, Unique Cinematography, Production Design, Acting, Pacing**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

The Favourite (2018)

December 24, 2018

The frail Queen Anne takes advice from her confidant and secret lover Lady Sarah, whom effectively runs the kingdom, until an outsider named Abigail challenges the relationship of the Queen and Lady Sarah, testing it’s strength for her own benefit.

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