MV5BMTY2Nzk0MDE3Nl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwOTI0ODc0MjI@._V1_.jpg — The Glass Castle (2017)

**Directed by: Destin Daniel Cretton**
**Starring: Woody Harrelson, Brie Larson, Naomi Watts, Ella Anderson, Sarah Snook, Max Greenfield**
**Rated: PG-13 for Mature Thematic Content Involving Family Dysfunction, and For Some Language and Smoking**
**Running Time: 2 h 7 m**
**TMM Score: 2 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Acting**
**WEAKNESSES: Overly Sentimental, Betrays the Spirit of the Memoir**

The Glass Castle (2017)

April 15, 2019

Based on the memoirs of Jeanette Walls, The Glass Castle tells the story of a family living in poverty and dysfunction.

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.

Glengary Glen Ross (1992)

**Directed by: James Foley**
**Starring: Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin, Alan Arkin, Ed Harris, Kevin Spacey, Jonathan Price, Bruce Altman**
**Rated: R for Language**
**Running Time: 1 h 40 m**
**TMM Score: 4.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Acting**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)

April 12, 2019

A brutal satire on the world of salesmanship.

MV5BMTA1ODUzMDA3NzFeQTJeQWpwZ15BbWU3MDgxMTYxNTk@._V1_.jpg — About Time (2013)

**Directed by: Richard Curtis**
**Starring: Domhnhall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy, Tom Hollander, Margot Robbie, Lindsay Duncan, Lydia Wilson**
**Rated: R for Language and Some Sexual Content**
**Running Time: 2 h 3 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Intent, Some Writing, Acting**
**WEAKNESSES: Unacknowledged Implications and Consequences**

About Time (2013)

April 11, 2019

A young man discovers he can time travel and decides to use his newfound power to help land him a girlfriend.

MV5BMjUyNjg1ODIwMl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNjMyOTYzNzM@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,640,1000_AL_.jpg — Pet Sematary (2019)

**Directed by: Kevin Kolsch, Dennis Widmyer**
**Starring: Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz, John Lithgow, Jete Laurence, Obssa Ahmed**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 1 h 41 m**
**TMM Score: 1.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Some Acting**
**WEAKNESSES: Pacing, Tone, Writing, Production Design, Mishandling of Story**

Pet Sematary (2019)

April 8, 2019

After a doctor buries his daughter’s dead cat in a mysterious plot of land, it comes back to life and strange incidents begin to occur.

MV5BYTE0Yjc1NzUtMjFjMC00Y2I3LTg3NGYtNGRlMGJhYThjMTJmXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNTI4MzE4MDU@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,674,1000_AL_.jpg — Shazam! (2019)

**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.

MV5BMTY1OTA2MjI5OV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNzkxMjU4NjM@._V1_.jpg — Glass (2019)

**Directed by: M. Night Shyamalan**
**Starring: James McAvoy, Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Anya Taylor-joy, Sarah Paulson, Spencer Treat Clark**
**Rated: PG-13 for Violence and Some Bloody Images, Thematic Elements, and Language**
**Running Time: 2 h 9 m**
**TMM Score: 2 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Some Acting**
**WEAKNESSES: Writing, Directing, Themes**

Glass (2019)

April 8, 2019

Security guard David Dunn uses his super powers to track a psychotic man with multiple personalities who calls himself “The Horde.” Simultaneously, criminal mastermind Elijah Price aka Mr. Glass hatches a new plan.

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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.

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.

917vVjnt-dL._SL1500_.jpg — The Social Network (2010)

**Directed by: David Fincher**
**Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Armie Hammer, Justin Timberlake, Rashida Jones**
**Rated: PG-13 for Sexual Content, Drug and Alcohol Use and Language**
**Running Time: 2h 1m**
**TMM Score: 5 Stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Acting, Direction, Writing, Cinematography, Score**
**WEAKNESSES: None**

The Social Network (2010)

April 2, 2019

The rise of Facebook.

MV5BZTliNWJhM2YtNDc1MC00YTk1LWE2MGYtZmE4M2Y5ODdlNzQzXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMzY0MTE3NzU@._V1_.jpg — Bumblebee (2018)

**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.

MV5BMTc1OTc5NzA4OF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwOTAzMzE2NjM@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,674,1000_AL_.jpg — The Mule (2018)

**Directed by: Clint Eastwood**
**Starring: Clint Eastwood, Bradley Cooper, Michael Pena, Taissa Farminga, Laurence Fishburne, Andy Garcia, Dianne Wiest**
**Rated: R for Language Throughout and Brief Sexuality/Nudity**
**Running Time: 1 h 56 m**
**TMM Score: 3 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Some Acting, Story**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Acting, Themes**

The Mule (2018)

April 1, 2019

A 90-year-old Korean War vet is roped into being a drug mule for a Mexican cartel.

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.

No Country for Old Men (2007)

March 29, 2019

After a man stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong, he seizes the two million dollars left behind and runs, only to be pursued by a ruthless psychopath.

MV5BNzUyODk4OTkxNF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMzY0MDgzNTM@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,674,1000_AL_.jpg — Mile 22 (2019)

**Directed by: Peter Berg**
**Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Lauren Cohan, Iko Uwais, Ronda Rousey, John Malkovich**
**Rated: R for Strong Violence and Language Throughout**
**Running Time: 1 h 34 m**
**TMM Score: 2.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Iko Uwais, Action, Ending**
**WEAKNESSES: Writing, Acting, Length**

Mile 22 (2019)

March 28, 2019

An elite intelligence team tries to smuggle a mysterious police officer out of Indonesia.

MV5BODhiMzkwYTctYzgwOC00MDM2LWExYjQtMzY4MDljZjQ3M2RmXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNDg4NjY5OTQ@._V1_.jpg — The Dirt (2019)

**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?

The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)

March 27, 2019

Ed Crane, a small town barber, has never made a splash in the world or even taken a big risk in his life but when a venture capitalist proposes a partnership he throws caution to the wind to blackmail his wife’s married lover to raise the money to finally get his slice of the pie.

MV5BMTY2Njk3MTAzM15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMTY5Mzk4NjE@._V1_.jpg — **Miller’s Crossing (1990)**

**Directed by: Joel Coen**
**Starring: Albert Finney, Gabriel Byrne, Marcia Gay Harden, John Turturro, Jon Polito**
**Rated: R for Graphic Violence**
**Running Time: 1 h 55 m**
**TMM Score: 4.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Acting, Setting, Action**
**WEAKNESSES: Stalls Towards the End**

Miller's Crossing (1990)

March 26, 2019

The Coen Brothers have always been top notch filmmakers, always creating memorable characters, and imaginative stories, whether it be dramatic, comedic, or a little of both, the Coen's have always had a gift for the craft, and Miller's Crossing is no exception.

MV5BNGZkODlhMjktNzhhMC00YjFiLWJmODMtNjQwOGMzZjMxNTZiXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTMxODk2OTU@._V1_.jpg — A Serious Man (2009)

**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.

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