MV5BZjhkNzVkYjAtMGMzMi00Y2JjLWFkMzgtNjQ3Mzk2YThhZWExXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjc5Mjg0NjU@._V1_SY1000_SX675_AL_.jpg — Border (2018)

**Directed by: Ali Abbasi**
**Starring: Eva Melander, Eero Milonoff, Jorgen Thorsson**
**Rated: R for Some Sexual Content, Graphic Nudity, A Bloody Violent Image, and Language**
**Running Time: 1 h 50 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Original Story, Makeup, Writing**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

Border (2018)

February 22, 2019

While aiding the police in an investigation, a customs officer who can smell fear develops an unusual attraction to a strange man.

Alita: Battle Angel (2019)

February 15, 2019

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

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: 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.

There Will Be Blood (2007)

February 5, 2019

A game of power between a millionaire oil man and a small town priest.

MV5BMjQzMzEzNDU2NV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMzQ4NTUwNTM@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,670,1000_AL_.jpg — Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)

**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: Chang-dong Lee**
**Starring: Ah-in Yoo, Steven Yeun, Jong-seo Jun**
**Rated: NR (Suggested R for Some Sexuality and Nudity, and Brief Drug Use and Violence)**
**Running Time: 2 h 28 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Directing, Themes, Atmosphere**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

Burning (2018)

February 1, 2019

A man runs into a woman that he used to know by chance and they form a tenuous friendship. After the woman returns from a trip, she introduces him to her new mysterious friend.

Suspiria (2018)

January 28, 2019

An American dancer travels to Berlin to join a mysterious dance troupe.

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**Directed by: Lars von Trier**
**Starring: Matt Dillon, Bruno Ganz, Uma Thurman, Riley Keough**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 2 h 32 m**
**TMM Score: 2 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Matt Dillon, Some Writing**
**WEAKNESSES: Direction, A Majority of the Writing**

The House that Jack Built (2018)

January 14, 2019

Serial killer Jack recounts twelve years of of his life.

MV5BMTg5MDA4MDk4MV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNTE4ODg3MQ@@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,675,1000_AL_.jpg — Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008)

**Directed by: Marina Zenovich**
**Starring: Roman Polanski, Samantha Geimer, Mia Farrow**
**Rated: NR (Suggested R for Thematic Elements and Sexual Dialogue)**
**Running Time: 1 h 39 m**
**TMM Score: 4.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Story, Presentation**
**WEAKNESSES:**

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008)

January 11, 2019

An examination of the life of Roman Polanski; his work, and the scandal that caused him to flee the United States and remain a fugitive for forty years.

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**Directed by: Felix van Groeningen**
**Starring: Steve Carell, Timothee Chalamet, Maura Tierney, Amy Ryan, Kaitlin Dever**
**Rated: R for Drug Content Throughout, Language, and Brief Sexual Material**
**Running Time: 2 h**
**TMM Score: 3 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Acting, Story**
**WEAKNESSES: Directing, Some Cheesy Writing, Soundtrack**

Beautiful Boy (2018)

January 7, 2019

Based on a pair of best-selling memoirs from father and son David and Nic Sheff. Nic struggled for years with methamphetamine addiction.

Tess (1979)

January 3, 2019

Tess Durbeyfield, a young and innocent farm girl, attempts to rise above her meager station by becoming a servant to a distant relation, when she arrives, circumstances much beyond her control drastically change her life.

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.

MV5BMjM3ODc5NDEyOF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMTI4MDcxNjM@._V1_.jpg — 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: -**

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.

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**Directed by: Federico Fellini**
**Starring: Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart**
**Rated: NR (Suggested PG-13 for Suggestive Content and Brief Violence)**
**Running Time: 1 h 48 m**
**TMM Score: 4.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Directing, Acting**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

La Strada (1954)

December 12, 2018

A jovial girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, and learns to endure life with all it’s ups and downs.

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**Directed by: Oliver Assayas**
**Starring: Virginie Ledoyen, Cyprien Fouquet, Laszlo Szabo**
**Rated: NR (Suggested R for Some Language and Brief Nudity)**
**Running Time: 1 h 32 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Characters, Directing, Acting, Cinematography, Soundtrack**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

Cold Water (1994)

December 7, 2018

A rebellious teenage couple finds out that the girl in the relationship is to be sent away, and they decide the only way to escape is to run from their problems.

focus_8c00_Poster France.jpg — Belle De Jour (1967)

**Directed by: Luis Bunuel**
**Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Genevieve Page**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 1 h 40 m**
**TMM Score: 4.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Directing, Acting, Cinematography**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

Belle De Jour (1967)

December 6, 2018

A young Parisian housewife spends her afternoons working as a prostitute in a brothel.

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