John Wick (2014)

May 17, 2019

An ex-hit-man comes out of retirement to track down the mobsters that killed his dog and stole his car.

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**Directed by: Roman Polanski**
**Starring: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 2 h 10 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Directing, Acting, Story, Themes**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

Chinatown (1974)

May 13, 2019

A private eye in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit after being hired by a woman who is not who she seems.

Observe and Report (2009)

April 23, 2019

A bi-polar mall cop decides to be a police officer to take down a streaking menace.

the Passenger.jpg — The Passenger (1975)

**Directed by: Michelangelo Antonioni**
**Starring: Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre, Ian Hendry**
**Rated: PG-13 for Some Violence, Nudity and Language**
**Running Time: 2 h 6 m**
**TMM Score: 4.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Direction, Writing, Acting, Cinematography**
**WEAKNESSES: Pacing**

The Passenger (1975)

April 23, 2019

A war correspondent, frustrated with his work and unable to find the war he’s supposed to cover, takes up the identity of a dead man who looks similar to him, only to find his plan may have many flaws.

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**Directed by: Warren Beatty**
**Starring: Warren Beatty, Charlie Korsmo, Glenne Headly, Al Pacino, Madonna, Dustin Hoffman, Mandy Patinkin, Kathy Bates, Dick Van Dyke, James Caan**
**Rated: PG**
**Running Time: 1 h 45 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Style, Direction, Makeup and Production Design, Acting, Fun**
**WEAKNESSES: Not For Everyone**

Dick Tracy (1990)

April 22, 2019

A comic strip detective finds his life increasingly complicated as he investigates the notorious Big Boy Caprice’s mob.

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**Directed by: Guillermo Del Toro**
**Starring: Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, John Alexander, Seth MacFarlane, Anna Walton, Jeffrey Tambor, Luke Goss, John Hurt**
**Rated: PG-13 for Sequences of Sci-Fi Action and Violence, and Some Language**
**Running Time: 2 h**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Directing, Characters, Writing, Production Design, Expanded World**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Coincidental Moments**

Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)

April 18, 2019

The continuing adventures of Hellboy and his paranormal friends.

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**Directed by: Guillermo Del Toro**
**Starring: Ron Perlman, Doug Jones, Selma Blair, John Hurt, Jeffrey Tambor, Karel Roden**
**Rated: PG-13 for Sci-Fi Action Violence and Frightening Images**
**Running Time: 2 h 12 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Directing, Production Design, Worldbuilding, Writing, Action, Characters**
**WEAKNESSES: Climax, Some Dated Effects**

Hellboy (2004)

April 18, 2019

A demon that was brought from another dimension by Nazis is raised by a secret US organization to protect the world from darkness.

f 1.jpg — Fargo (1996)

**Directed By: Joel & Ethan Coen**
**Starring: William H. Macey, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare, Frances McDormand, John Caroll Lynch, Larry Brandenberg**
**Rated: R**
**Run Time: 1h 38m**
**TMM Score: 5 Stars**
**Strengths: Acting, Themes, Cinematography, Unique Setting**
**Weakness: None**

Fargo (1996)

April 17, 2019

When Jerry Lundegaard, tired of scrounging for scraps and grinding as a failed car/undercoat salesman, decides to stage a kidnap and ransom of his wife to gain access to his father-in-law’s money and the mild mannered mid-westerner ends ends up in league with a violently pragmatic criminal cohort.

A History of Violence (2005)

April 16, 2019

Tom Stall had the perfect life, until he became a hero.

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**Directed by: Joe Johnston**
**Starring: Billy Campbell, Jennifer Connelly, Alan Arkin,Timothy Dalton, Paul Sorvino, Terry O’Quinn**
**Rated: PG**
**Running Time: 1 h 48 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Nostalgic Tone, Story, Some Acting, Ending**
**WEAKNESSES: Billy Campbell**

The Rocketeer (1991)

April 5, 2019

A young pilot finds a jetpack that allows him to be a masked hero.

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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.

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.

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.

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**Directed by: S. Craig Zahler**
**Starring: Mel Gibson, Vince Vaughn, Michael Jai White, Jennifer Carpenter, Don Johnson, Laurie Holden, Thomas Kretschmann, Udo Kier, Fred Melamed**
**Rated: R for Strong Violence, Grisly Images, Language, and Some Sexuality/Nudity**
**Running Time: 2 h 39 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Acting**
**WEAKNESSES: Length, Some Unnecessary Backstory**

Dragged Across Concrete (2018)

March 25, 2019

After two cops are put on administrative leave, they turn to the underworld in order to make ends meet.

The Big Lebowski (1998)

March 25, 2019

Slacker ‘The Dude’ navigates LA trying to untangle a mess of a conspiracy.

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**Directed by: Sean Penn**
**Starring: Jack Nicholson, Aaron Eckhart, Benicio Del Toro, Patricia Clarkson, Helen Mirren, Robin Wright, Mickey Rourke, Sam Shepard, Harry Dean Stanton, Lois Smith, Vanessa Redgrave**
**Rated: R for Strong Violence and Language**
**Running Time: 2 h 4 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Unexpected Twist on a Familiar Storyline, Directing**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Overly Coincidental Moments, Some Dicey Acting**

The Pledge (2001)

March 15, 2019

A retiring police detective pledges to catch the killer of a young child.

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**Directed by: Steven Knight**
**Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Diane Lane, Jason Clarke, Djimon Hounsou**
**Rated: R for Language throughout, Sexual Content, and Some Bloody Images**
**Running Time: 1 h 46 m**
**TMM Score: 2 Stars**
**STRENGTHS: So Bad It’s Good**
**WEAKNESSES: Laughable Dialogue, Confusing Direction, Obscure Characters, Absurd Twists, Bizarre Writing**

Serenity (2019)

March 5, 2019

A lonely fisherman takes a peculiar job from a mysterious woman.

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.

ALphaville Poster.jpg — Alphaville (1965)

**Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard**
**Starring: Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff, Howard Vernon**
**Rated: NR**
**Running Time: 1h 39m**
**TMM Score: 2 out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Theme**
**WEAKNESSES: Direction, Editing, Budget**

Alphaville (1965)

January 10, 2019

A secret agent from The Outlands ventures into Alphaville on a three part mission that concludes in the destruction of Alphaville’s creator.

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**Directed by: Steve McQueen**
**Starring: Viola Davis, Liam Neeson, Daniel Kaluuya, Brian Tyree Henry, Colin Farrell, Robert Duvall, Elizabeth Debicki, Jacki Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez, Jon Bernthal, Cynthia Erivo, Lukas Haas**
**Rated: R for Violence, Language Throughout, and Some Sexual Content/Nudity**
**Running Time: 2 h 9 m**
**TMM Score: 4.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Directing, Editing, Acting**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

Widows (2018)

December 19, 2018

Four women with nothing in common except a debt left by their dead husbands’ criminal activities take fate into their own hands.

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