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**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.

cw 1.jpg — Cold War (2018)

**Directed by: Pawel Pawlikowski**
**Starring: Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 1h 29m**
**TMM Score: 4 Stars**
**STRENGTHS: Cinematography**
**WEAKNESSES: Lack of Emotional Connection**

Cold War (2018)

February 21, 2019

A talented music director and his star performer fall in love but frustrated by Communist controlled Poland’s “requirements” for his art, he and his lover disagree about leaving Poland.

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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: Abellatif Kechiche**
**Starring: Adele Exarchopoulos, Lea Seydoux, Salim Kechiouche**
**Rated: NC-17 for Explicit Sexual Content**
**Running Time: 3 h**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Directing, Story, Acting**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

Blue is the Warmest Color (2013)

February 14, 2019

Adele, a young schoolteacher in France, has a life altering awakening when she meets Emma, an artist with blue hair.

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: Julian Schnabel**
**Starring: Willem Dafoe, Mads Mikkelsen, Oscar Isaac, Rupert Friend, Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Rupert Friend**
**Rated: PG-13 for Soem Thematic Elements**
**Running Time: 1 h 51 m**
**TMM Score: 4 Stars**
**STRENGTHS: Performances, Cinematography, Writing**
**WEAKNESSES: Overly Ambitious**

At Eternity's Gate (2018)

February 13, 2019

A portrait of Vincent Van Gogh in his final, spiraling years.

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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.

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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: 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.

Take Shelter (2011)

January 30, 2019

Plagued by visions which foretell of an apocalyptic storm, Curtis struggles to convince his family and the community around them, that he isn’t going insane as he sinks everything into building a storm shelter.

Suspiria (2018)

January 28, 2019

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

Roma (2018)

January 25, 2019

A year in the life of a maid living in Mexico City during the 1970s.

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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.

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**Directed by: Ted Kotcheff**
**Starring: Gary Bond, Donald Pleasence, Sylvia Kay**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 1 h 49 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Setting, Writing, Directing**
**WEAKNESSES: Extended Sequence of Animal Cruelty**

Wake in Fright (1971)

January 18, 2019

A schoolteacher in the remote reaches of the Australian Outback tries to escape the wilderness during his holiday, but the outback has other plans for him.

The Lobster (2015)

January 16, 2019

In an alternate and twisted modern/future society, single men and women have 45 days in a singles hotel to find a mate whilst attending mixers, dances, and hunts. If they fail, they are transformed into an animal of their choosing.

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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.

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