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**Directed by: Abner Pastoll**
**Starring: Sarah Bolger, Edward Hogg, Andrew Simpson**
**Rated: NR (Suggested R for Some Strong Bloody Violence and Gory Images)**
**Running Time: 1 h 37 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Directing, Acting, Themes**
**WEAKNESSES: Mild Pacing Issues, Coincidental Moments**

A Good Woman is Hard to Find (2019)

February 3, 2020

An impoverished, recently widowed mother of two gets sucked into the world of crime that dwells right outside her door, and must fight to protect her children.

tmwktm 1.jpg — The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)

**Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock**
**Starring: Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre**
**Rated: NR**
**Run Time: 1h 15m**
**TMM Score: 3 Stars**
**Strengths: Clever Plot, Brevity**
**Weakness: Slight**

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)

January 31, 2020

When an American Family, vacationing abroad, gets mixed up in an assassination plot, the couple must choose between stopping an international coup or saving their kidnapped daughter.

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**Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock**
**Starring: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter**
**Rated: PG**
**Running Time: 1 h 52 m**
**TMM Score: 4 Stars**
**STRENGTHS: Style, Intense, Fun**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Dated Material**

Rear Window (1954)

January 30, 2020

A wheelchair-bound photographer and his girlfriend believe they might’ve stumbled upon a murder.

mwktm 1.jpg — The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

**Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock**
**Starring: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda de Banzie , Bernard Miles**
**Rated: PG**
**Run Time: 2h**
**TMM Score: 4 Stars**
**Strengths: Sense of Impending Tragedy, Tension**
**Weakness: Child Acting, Annoying Song**

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

January 29, 2020

When American family, travelling abroad, the McKenna’s, meet a friendly but mysterious Frenchman, they are caught up in an international assassination plot with more than just the life of the Prime Minister at stake.

Vertigo (1958)

January 29, 2020

At the request of a friend, a former detective investigates an acquaintance’s wife, whom has been acting mysterious. As he does, he finds himself falling in love with the woman.

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**Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock**
**Starring: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger**
**Rated: Approved**
**Running Time: 1 h 20 m**
**TMM Score: 4.5 Stars**
**STRENGTHS: Humor, Technical Aspects, Writing, Suspense**
**WEAKNESSES: Obvious Cuts**

Rope (1948)

January 28, 2020

Two men try to prove they’ve committed a perfect crime by hosting a dinner party after strangling their former classmate.

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**Directed by: Guy Ritchie**
**Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Michelle Dockery, Hugh Grant, Jeremy Strong, Colin Ferrell, Henry Goulding, Eddie Marsan**
**Rated: R for Violence, Language Throughout, Sexual References and Drug Content**
**Running Time: 1 h 53 m**
**TMM Score: 2.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Story, Some Writing, Some Acting**
**WEAKNESSES: Thinks It’s More Clever Than It Is, Pacing, Some Acting**

The Gentlemen (2019)

January 27, 2020

A drug lord tries to sell his empire to a billionaire, but things get complicated.

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**Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock**
**Starring: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 1 h 49 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Directing, Writing, Acting, Soundtrack, Editing, Cinematography, Subversion of Expectations**
**WEAKNESSES: Psychiatrist Monologue**

Psycho (1960)

January 27, 2020

A secretary steals forty thousand dollars and absconds from Phoenix, but things take a turn for the worse after she checks into a motel run by a peculiar young man and his domineering mother.

71T+hc-NRaL._RI_.jpg — Ride with the Devil (1999)

**Directed by: Ang Lee**
**Starring: Tobey McGuire, Jewel Kilcher, Skeet Ulrich, Jeffrey Wright, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Tom Wilkinson, Margo Martindale, Jim Caviezel, Mark Ruffalo**
**Rated: R for Graphic War Violence**
**Running Time: 2 h 28 m**
**TMM Score: 2.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Production Design, Cinematography, Action**
**WEAKNESSES: Length, Pacing, Some Acting**

Ride with the Devil (1999)

January 24, 2020

During the American Civil War, two friends join a band of Confederate guerrilla fighters known as the Bushwackers.

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**Directed by: Helene Cattet, Bruno Forzani**
**Starring: Elina Lowensohn, Stephane Ferrara, Bernie Bonvoisin, Michelangelo Marchese, Marc Barbe, Pierre Nisse**
**Rated: Unrated (Suggested R for Graphic Nudity and Strong Violence)**
**Running Time: 1 h 32 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Style, Cinematography, Pacing, Editing, Ennio Morricone, Sound Design**
**WEAKNESSES: Style Over Substance, Sometimes Difficult to Tell What’s Going On, Also Editing**

Let the Corpses Tan (2017)

January 22, 2020

Thieves with a trunkful of gold bullion hide out at an old mission where they encounter a bohemian artist and his muse. As cops arrive at the mission, bullets begin to fly.

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**Directed by: Bernardo Bertolucci**
**Starring: Robert DeNiro, Gerard Depardieu, Dominique Sandra, Donald Sutherland**
**Rated: NR (Suggested NC-17 for Explicit Sexual Content, and Violence Including Animal Cruelty)**
**Running Time: 5 h 17 m**
**TMM Score: 2 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Cinematography, Acting, Some Amazing Sequences, Directing**
**WEAKNESSES: Animal Cruelty, Length, Themes, Also Directing**

1900 (1976)

January 17, 2020

An epic tale of class struggle in Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends- one wealthy, one poor.

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**Directed by: Takashi Miike**
**Starring: Kenji Sawada, Keiko Matsuzaka, Shinji Takeda, Naomi Nishida, Tesuro Tanba, Tamaki Miyazaki**
**Rated: R for Violent Images and Some Sexual Content**
**Running Time: 1 h 53 m**
**TMM Score: 4.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Absurdity, Themes, Story, Fun, Innovation**
**WEAKNESSES: Also Absurdity**

The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)

January 15, 2020

A dark comedy concerning a family that opens an inn in a remote mountain region, only to have the arriving customers die in mysterious ways.

81VGrHnBddL._RI_.jpg — Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)

**Directed by: Tom Tykwer**
**Starring: Ben Winshaw, Dustin Hoffman, Alan Rickman**
**Rated: R for Aberrant Behavior Involving Nudity, Violence, Sexuality, and Disturbing Images**
**Running Time: 2 h 27 m**
**TMM Score: 3 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Direction, Acting, Production Design, Story, Concept**
**WEAKNESSES: Length, Ending**

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)

January 10, 2020

A perfumer with an incredible sense of smell has a deadly obsession with his pursuit of trying capture the scent of women.

Brimstone (2016)

January 8, 2020

A young mute woman is tracked by a mysterious preacher.

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Directed by: Riley Stearns
Starring: Jessie Eisenberg, Alessandro Nivola, Imogen Poots, Steve Terada, Phillip Andre Botello
Rated: R for Violence, Sexual Content, Graphic Nudity and Language
Running Time: 1 h 44 m
TMM Score: 4.5 Stars
STRENGTHS: Black Humor, Story, Acting
WEAKNESSES: -

The Art of Self Defense (2019)

January 7, 2020

After being brutally mugged, Casey Davies enrolls in a Karate course taught by an eccentric sensei.

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**Directed by: Nicolas Pesce**
**Starring: Andrea Riseborough, Demian Bichir, John Cho, William Sadler, Jackie Weaver, Betty Gilpin**
**Rated: R for Disturbing Violence and Bloody Images, Terror and Some Language**
**Running Time: 1 h 33 m**
**TMM Score: 1 star out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: -**
**WEAKNESSES: Boring, Predictable, Acting, Jump Scares**

The Grudge (2020)

January 6, 2020

A house is haunted by a vengeful ghost.

The Forest of Love (2019)

January 6, 2020

Japanese cult director Sion Sono’s take on the Kitakysushu serial murder incident.

Che: Part Two (2008)

January 3, 2020

In 1967, Che leads a small army against the Bolivian government.

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**Directed by: Steven Soderbergh**
**Starring: Benicio Del Toro, Demian Bichir, Julia Ormond, Oscar Isaac, Edgar Ramirez**
**Rated: NR (Suggested R for Violence and Language)**
**Running Time: 2 h 14 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Story, Directing, Acting, Perspective**
**WEAKNESSES: Depiction of a Controversial Figure**

Che: Part One (2008)

January 2, 2020

Ernesto Che Guevara and a band of Fidel Castro-led Cubans mobilize to topple the regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.

Uncut Gems (2019)

December 31, 2019

Howard Ratner, a New York City jeweler and compulsive gambling addict, makes a series of high stakes bets in an attempt to score a huge win, while simultaneously avoiding his bookies, and balancing his wife, kids and his mistress.

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