MV5BOTU2YjVhNjMtMGQ4ZC00ZmUyLWJlZjAtNTgyZjhjZmQwNWUwXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMDA4NzMyOA@@._V1_SY1000_SX675_AL_.jpg — Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)

**Directed by: David Yates**
**Starring: Eddie Redmanyne, Johnny Depp, Zoe Krzvitz,Ezra Miller, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Jude Law, Brontis Jodorowsky**
**Rated: PG-13 for Some Sequences of Fantasy Action**
**Running Time: 2 h 14 m**
**TMM Score: 2.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Production Design, Special Effects, Some Acting**
**WEAKNESSES: Jumbled Story, Fan Service Over Substance**

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)

March 11, 2019

Wizard Newt Scamander finds himself wrapped up in an adventure that pits him and his friends against the evil Grindelwald.

Mortal Engines (2018)

March 11, 2019

In a post apocalyptic steampunk world where cities are mobile and consume smaller cities to survive, two people try to stop a conspiracy.

bb 1.jpg — The Blues Brothers (1980)

Directed By: John Landis
Starring: John Belushi, Dan Akroyd, Carrie Fisher, Aretha Franklin, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, James Brown
Rated: R
Run Time: 2h 13m
TMM Score: 5 Stars
Strengths: Performances
Weakness: Nothing

The Blues Brothers (1980)

March 6, 2019

When Jake Blues is released from prison, he and his brother Elwood are set on a mission from God, to save the orphanage they grew up in without tainting any of the money through illicit means.

Vox Lux (2018)

March 4, 2019

An unusual set of circumstances bring success to a pop star.

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**Directed by: Josie Rourke**
**Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, Jack Lowden, Guy Pearce**
**Rated: R for Some Violence and Sexuality**
**Running Time: 2 h 4 m**
**TMM Score: 2 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Acting, Costumes**
**WEAKNESSES: Pacing, Writing, Directing, Out of Place Themes**

Mary Queen of Scots (2018)

March 1, 2019

An account of Mary Stuart’s relationship with Elizabeth I, Queen of England.

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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.

MV5BMTUyMjQ1MTY5OV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNzY5NjExMw@@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,711,1000_AL_.jpg — A Prophet (2009)

**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.

There Will Be Blood (2007)

February 5, 2019

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

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.

MV5BNzA2NmYxMWUtNzBlMC00MWM2LTkwNmQtYTFlZjQwODNhOWE0XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNTIzOTk5ODM@._V1_.jpg — The Great Escape (1963)

**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: 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.

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.

81nKPIXzkUL._RI_.jpg — Dragonslayer (1981)

**Directed by: Matthew Robbins**
**Starring: Peter MacNicol, Caitlin Clarke, John Hallam**
**Rated: PG**
**Running Time: 1 h 49 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Story, Production Design, Tone**
**WEAKNESSES: Annoying Protagonist, Predictability (?)**

Dragonslayer (1981)

December 20, 2018

A young sorcerer’s apprentice is recruited by knights from a distant land to slay a dragon.

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: Terrence Malick**
**Starring: Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain, Hunter McCracken, Tye Sheridan, Sean Penn**
**Rated: PG-13 for Some Thematic Material**
**Running Time: 2 h 19 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Cinematography, Visual Storytelling, Directing, Acting**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

The Tree of Life (2011)

December 14, 2018

A young boy comes of age in Texas during the 1950s. His parents have two conflicting ways of looking at life.

alex-tsoucas-the-man-who-fell-to-earth-poster-variant-arts.jpg — The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)

**Directed by: Nicolas Roeg**
**Starring: David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 2 h 19 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Directing, Writing, Editing, Cinematography, Acting, Unconventionality**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)

December 10, 2018

An alien poses as a human in an attempt to return to his dying planet, but the distractions of a human woman and the greed of man continually complicate things.

MV5BODM3MjA3NDM3M15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMDc1NjUwMjI@._V1_.jpg — Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)

**Directed by: Kevin Reynolds**
**Starring: Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Alan Rickman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Christian Slater, Brian Blessed, Nick Brimble, Sean Connery**
**Rated: PG-13**
**Running Time: 2 h 35 m**
**TMM Score: 3 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Fun, Story, Cinematography, Alan Rickman**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Acting, Some Cheesy/ Farfetched Moments**

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)

November 26, 2018

A retelling of the legend of Robin Hood.

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)

November 21, 2018

A dying thief reveals where he hid a stolen fortune to a group of passing travelers only to set off a chain of crazy events as everyone races towards the riches.

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