ltoc 1.jpg — The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)

**Directed By: Martin Scorsese**
**Starring: Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey**
**Rated: R**
**Run Time: 2h 44m**
**TMM Score: 5 Stars**
**Strengths: Performance, Production Design, Themes**
**Weakness: NA**

The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)

November 20, 2019

An alternate telling of the life of Christ as he battles internally and externally with his destined role, his personal desire, and the dichotomy between soul and body.

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**Directed by: Martin Scorsese**
**Starring: Robert DeNiro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, James Woods, Don Rickles**
**Rated: R for Strong Brutal Violence, Pervasive Strong Language, Drug Use and Some Sexuality**
**Running Time: 2 h 58 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Directing, Acting, Cinematography**
**WEAKNESSES: Pacing, Length**

Casino (1995)

November 18, 2019

Adapted from the true story of Las Vegas mobsters Lefty Rosenthal and Tony Spilotro.

Do the Right Thing (1989)

November 15, 2019

Set on the hottest day of the year in Brooklyn. A snapshot of a neighborhood dealing with racial tensions.

MV5BNTk1NDkzNjI1NF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMzM4Njg3NjM@._V1_.jpg — Piercing (2018)

**Directed by: Nicolas Pesce**
**Starring: Christopher Abbott, Mia Wasikowska, Laia Costa**
**Rated: R for Aberrant Violent and Sexual Content, Nudity, and Language**
**Running Time: 1 h 21 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Directing, Writing, Creativity, Acting**
**WEAKNESSES: More Style than Substance, Minor Deux Ex Machina**

Piercing (2018)

November 14, 2019

A man with a growing inclination towards violence decides to murder a prostitute to get it out of his system.

Her (2013)

November 14, 2019

A writer, heartbroken over an old breakup, installs an OS with such advanced AI that it becomes actually sentient and, to him at least, an actual relationship.

Parasite (2019)

November 13, 2019

A family of unemployed con-artists and thieves find the perfect mark in a trusting and unsuspecting wealthy woman and her family whose casual indifference create unexpected and violent problems.

f 9.jpg — The Farewell (2019)

**Directed By: Lulu Wang**
**Starring: Shuzhen Zhao, Awkwafina, Tzi Ma, Diana Lin, Aoi Mizuhara**
**Rated: PG**
**Run Time: 98 min**
**TMM Score: 5 Stars**
**Strengths: Peformances, Thematic Exploration**
**Weakness: NA**

The Farewell (2019)

November 12, 2019

Billi, a Chinese immigrant raised in New York, returns home with her family to visit Nai Nai, her grandmother who has terminal cancer but, for cultural reasons, hasn’t been told about her diagnosis by their extended Chinese family.

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Directed by: Tyler Nilson, Michael Schwartz
Starring: Zack Gottsagen, Shia LaBeouf, Dakota Johnson, Bruce Dern, John Hawkes
Rated: PG-13 for Thematic Content, Language Throughout, Some Violence and Smoking
Running Time: 1h 37m
TMM Score: 5 Stars
STRENGTHS: Heartfelt, Poignant, Terrific Performances
WEAKNESSES: -

The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019)

November 12, 2019

Two very different people form a bond on an exciting journey…

The Pianist (2002)

November 11, 2019

A Polish Jewish pianist struggles to survive during the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto during World War II.

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**Directed by: Rainer Werner Fassbinder**
**Starring: Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Lowitsch, Ivan Desny, Gisela Uhlen, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Gottried John, George Eagles**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 2 h**
**TMM Score: 4.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Characters, Themes, Writing, Directing, Cinematography**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Pacing**

The Marriage of Maria Braun (1978)

November 8, 2019

Shortly after the end of World War II, a newly married woman in post-war Germany struggles to survive without her husband.

aa 1.jpg — Ad Astra (2019)

**Directed By: James Gray**
**Starring: Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Donald Sutherland**
**Rated: PG-13**
**Run Time: 2h 3m**
**TMM Score: 4 Stars**
**Strengths: Cinematic Language**
**Weakness: Voice Over**

Ad Astra (2019)

November 7, 2019

In the near future, Roy McBride is tapped by Space Command Brass to engage in a search for his father, a hero astronaut who disappeared years ago, in order to save the earth from a devastating phenomenon which is on the verge of destroying all human life.

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)

November 4, 2019

A German woman in her mid-sixties and a Moroccan migrant worker in his twenties fall in love.

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**Directed by: Peter Weir**
**Starring: Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, Josh Charles**
**Rated: PG**
**Running Time: 2 h 8 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Themes, Writing, Directing, Some Acting**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Melodrama, Knox Overstreet’s Character, Somewhat Predictable**

Dead Poets Society (1989)

November 1, 2019

An English teacher at a prestigious preparatory school inspires his students to look at the world in a different light.

Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later (1998)

October 31, 2019

Twenty years after Michael Myers terrorized Laurie Strode, he returns to do it again.

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**Directed by: William Friedkin**
**Starring: Linda Blair, Ellen Burstryn, Max von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb, Kitty Winn, Jack MacGowran, Jason Miller**
**Rated: R for Strong Language and Disturbing Images**
**Running Time: 2 h 12 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS:Themes, Acting, Story, Writing**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

The Exorcist (1973)

October 30, 2019

A teenage girl is possessed by a demon and two priests try to save her.

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**Directed by: John Boorman**
**Starring: Linda Blair, Richard Burton, Louise Fletcher, Max Von Sydow, Ned Beatty, James Earl Jones**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 1 h 57 m**
**TMM Score: 2 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: It’s Pretty Funny**
**WEAKNESSES: Everything**

Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)

October 30, 2019

The continuing misadventures of Regan MacNeil and her demon pal Pazuzu.

MV5BNjA4MTE4NTQzN15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMjM5MzkwMzE@._V1_.jpg — The Exorcist III: Legion (1990)

**Directed by: William Peter Blatty**
**Starring: George C. Scott, Brad Dourif, Ed Flanders, Jason Miller**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 1 h 50 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Brad Dourif, Story, Writing**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Heavy-Handedness, Some Acting**

The Exorcist III: Legion (1990)

October 30, 2019

A police lieutenant finds a series of murders are linked to a murders done by a famous serial killer more than fifteen years ago.

LIGOS_105_M3.1V2.1.jpg — The Lighthouse (2019)

**Directed by: Robert Eggers**
**Starring: Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe**
**Rated: R for Sexual Content, Nudity, Violence, Disturbing Images and Some Language**
**Running Time: 1 h 49 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Directing, Writing, Themes, Acting, Cinematography**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

The Lighthouse (2019)

October 29, 2019

Two wickies on a post far out at sea begin to experience unusual phenomena.

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**Directed by: Richard Donner**
**Starring: Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, Harvey Stephens, Billie Whitelaw**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 1 h 51 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Story, Writing**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Lack of Subtlety**

The Omen (1976)

October 29, 2019

After a series of mysterious deaths surrounding an American Ambassador, the Ambassador begins to suspect there might be something wrong with his young son.

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**Directed by: Graham Baker**
**Starring: Sam Neill, Rossona Brazzi, Don Gordon**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 1 h 48 m**
**TMM Score: 1 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Nothing**
**WEAKNESSES: Story, Writing, Acting**

The Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981)

October 29, 2019

The Antichrist plots his future moves while a cabal of monks try to assassinate him.

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