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**Directed by: David Lynch**
**Starring: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux, Robert Forster, Patrick Fischler**
**Rated: R for Violence, Language and Some Strong Sexuality**
**Running Time: 2 h 27 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Directing, Cinematography, Themes, Symbolism**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

Mulholland Drive (2001)

July 19, 2019

After a car wreck leaves a woman without memory, she and cheerful aspiring actress embark on a trip across Hollywood searching for clues.

PS 1.jpg — Police Story (1985)

**Directed By: Jackie Chan, Chi-Hwa Chen**
**Starring: Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Kwok-Hung Lam, Bill Tung, Yuen Chor**
**Rated: PG-13**
**Run Time: 1h 40m**
**TMM Score: 4 Stars**
**Strengths: Martial Arts, Comedy, Set Pieces**
**Weakness: Emotional Connection**

Police Story (1985)

July 18, 2019

When a Hong Kong Hero Police Officer is tasked with protecting a witness and girlfriend of a powerful gangster he must navigate the dicey waters of his own personal relationship, the police precinct’s bureaucracy, and clear his name from being framed for killing a fellow cop.

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**Directed by: Robert Altman**
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Julianne Moore, Mathew Modine, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Chris Penn, Robert Downey Jr., Madeleine Stowe, Tim Robins, Lily Tomlin, Tom Waits, Frances McDormand, Peter Gallagher, Annie Ross, Lori Singer, Huey Lewis
**Rated: R for Graphic Sexual Language, and for Nudity**
**Running Time: 3 h 8 m**
**TMM Score: 4.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Directing, Acting, Story, World Building**
**WEAKNESSES: Pacing, Length**

Short Cuts (1993)

July 17, 2019

An anthology film concerning the interconnecting lives of Los Angeles residents.

8173nTPEhfL._SL1500_.jpg — Blue Velvet (1986)

**Directed by: David Lynch**
**Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Frances Bay, Dean Stockwell, Jack Nance, Hope Lange, George Dickerson**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 2 h**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Directing, Style, Story**
**WEAKNESSES: Pacing, Lynchian-lite**

Blue Velvet (1986)

July 15, 2019

A young man discovers a severed human ear which leads him on an investigation that could uncover a dark underworld that dwells beneath the seemingly perfect streets of Lumberton.

John Carter (2012)

July 15, 2019

A civil war vet is transported to Mars where he discovers factions on the edge of war.

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**Directed by: Rainer Werner Fassbinder**
**Starring: Klaus Lowitsch, Barbara Valentin, Mascha Rabben**
**Rated: NR (Suggested R for Some Nudity)**
**Running Time: 3 h 32 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Directing, World Building, Cinematography, Themes**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Acting, Some Pacing**

World on a Wire (1973)

July 12, 2019

Set in the near future. After one of his colleagues dies mysteriously, a scientist named Fred Stiller decides to investigate further. He uncovers a conspiracy that could alter the fabric of reality as he knows it.

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**Directed by: Agnieszka Holland**
**Starring: Marco Hofschneider, Andre Wilms, Julie Delpy**
**Rated: R for Mature Treatment of Holocaust Issues**
**Running Time: 1 h 52 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Themes, Story**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Acting, Melodrama, Coincidence**

Europa Europa (1990)

July 11, 2019

A young Jewish boy joins Hitler’s Youth Army in an attempt to conceal his identity.

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**Directed by: Roman Polanski**
**Starring: Jon Finch, Francesca Annis, Martin Shaw, Terence Bayler, Nicholas Selby, Stephan Chase**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 2 h 20 m**
**TMM Score: 4.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Story, Direction, Cinematography, Production Design**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Pacing**

Macbeth (1971)

July 10, 2019

With the help of his wife, a Scottish lord murders his king and ascends to the throne, only to be driven mad by his guilt.

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**Directed by: John Waters**
**Starring: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Cookie Mueller, Edith Massey, George Figgs**
**Rated: NR (Suggested R for Strong Sexual and Violent Content, Comic Disturbing Behavior and Language)**
**Running Time: 1 h 37 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Directing, Some Acting, Themes**
**WEAKNESSES: Overall Technical Aspects**

Multiple Maniacs (1970)

July 9, 2019

The Lady Divine becomes enraged after her boyfriend cheats on her, and descends into a life of murder and deviousness.

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**Directed by: Neil Marshall**
**Starring: David Harbour, Milla Jovovich, Ian McShane, Sasha Lane, Daniel Dae Kim**
**Rated: R for Strong Bloody Violence and Gore Throughout, and Language**
**Running Time: 2 h**
**TMM Score: 2 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Some Acting, Creature Design, Some Action**
**WEAKNESSES: Jumbled Storyline, Needless Characters, Ridiculous Climax**

Hellboy (2019)

July 8, 2019

Hellboy battles an ancient sorceress bent on destroying the human race.

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**Directed by: Ari Aster**
**Starring: Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper, Will Poulter, Anders Back, Ellora Torchia**
**Rated: R for Disturbing Ritualistic Violence and Grisly Images, Strong Sexual Content, Graphic Nudity, Drug Use and Language**
**Running Time: 2 h 27 m**
**TMM Score: 4.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Directing, World Building, Themes, Cinematography, Acting**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Pacing**

Midsommar (2019)

July 4, 2019

A couple whose relationship is on the fritz travels to Sweden for a midsummer festival which, they soon learn, finds its roots in pagan ritual.

The Lives of Others.jpg — The Lives of Others (2006)

**Directed by: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck**
**Starring: Ulrich Muhe, Sebastian Koch, Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Tukur**
**Rated: R for Some Sexuality/Nudity**
**Running Time: 2 h 17 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Directing, Acting, Message**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

The Lives of Others (2006)

June 28, 2019

In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover finds himself becoming absorbed into their lives.