Rampage (2018)

April 16, 2018

When three animals become infected with an experimental pathogen, a primatologist and a geneticist join together to stop them from destroying Chicago.

Tampopo (1985)

April 13, 2018

In this delightfully delectable comedy, a truck driver stops at a noodle shop and decides to stay to help the owner, a young widow, improve her cooking.

God's Not Dead: A Light in the Darkness (2018)

April 12, 2018

When Pastor Dave's church is burned, the University with which it is associated is convinced that they should shut it down. Will Pastor Dave's dedication to his church win over all the critics or will St. James Church be torn down as sacrifice to the secular god's of political correctness.

Chappaquiddick

**Directed by: John Curan**
**Starring: Jason Clarke, Ed Helms, Jim Gaffigan, Kate Mara**
**Running Time: 1h 46m**
**TMM Score: 3 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Acting**
**WEAKNESSES: Wrong Protagonist**

Chappaquiddick (2017)

April 11, 2018

In 1969, Ted Kennedy was involved in a scandal where a young woman was drowned. What would be the aftermath of this incident, for his family, political aspirations, and the country?

A Quiet Place (2018)

April 9, 2018

In a post-apocalyptic world, creatures that hunt by sound stalk a family that hides in farmhouse.

Dead Man Walking (1995)

April 5, 2018

A nun becomes a spiritual advisor to a convicted man during his last days on death row.

Ready Player One (2018)

April 2, 2018

Wade Watts, a teenager living in 2045, when the majority of life takes place inside the virtual world of Oasis, competes in a contest that could grant him untold riches and reshape the landscape of the digital world forever.

I Can Only Imagine (2018)

March 29, 2018

The true story behind MercyMe's chart topping single, I Can Only Imagine, focusing primarily on Bart Millard's relationship with his abusive father.

Paul, Apostle of Christ

**Directed by: Andrew Hyatt**
**Starring: James Faulkner, Jim Caviezel, Olivier Martinez**
**Rated: PG-13**
**Running Time: 1h 48m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Acting, Dialogue, Message**
**WEAKNESSES: Pacing**

Paul, Apostle of Christ (2018)

March 28, 2018

Luke, newly arrived in Rome, where Christians are being hunted down and executed, seeks to bring the Apostle Paul’s story to the struggling church. One problem, Paul is imprisoned in a Roman Jail and suspicions of every Christian in the city are on the rise.

Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)

March 27, 2018

The Kaiju are back, and once again it's up to the men and women in Jaegars to fight them off, and save the planet once more.

Tomb Raider

**Directed by: Roar Uthaug**
**Starring: Alicia Vikander, Dominic West, Walton Goggins**
**Rated: PG-13**
**Running Time: 1h 58m**
**TMM Score: 2 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Acting, Humor?**
**WEAKNESSES: Dialogue, Script, VFX**

TOMB RAIDER (2018)

March 26, 2018

Her father, obsessed by his wife's death and a search for immortality, disappeared years ago. Now a young aimless drifter, Lara Croft discovers a clue to her father's whereabouts and seeks to recover him no matter who, whether international arms cartel or ancient sorceress queen, tries to stop her.

The Death of Stalin

March 22, 2018

After Stalin's death, the Soviet Union is thrust into disarray while the remaining leaders struggle to maintain some semblance of order.

A Wrinkle In Time

**Directed by: Ava DuVernay**
**Starring: Storm Reid, Deric McCabe, Levi Miller, Reese Witherspoon**
**Rated: PG**
**Running Time: 1h 49m**
**TMM Score: 2 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Storm Reid's Performance**
**WEAKNESSES: Everything Else**

A Wrinkle In Time (2018)

March 20, 2018

When Middle Schooler Meg's scientist Father went missing, it ruined her life, but upon meeting Charles Wallace, her brother's, new other-worldly friends, she is offered the chance to find her Father and heal her broken family, all while saving the universe?

The Outsider (2018)

March 19, 2018

An American living in post-war Japan joins the Yakuza and rises through their ranks.

Derren Brown: The Push

**Directed by: Jon Richards**
**Starring: Ben Adams, Darren Brown, Tom Carter**
**Rated: TV-MA**
**Running Time: 1h 8m**
**TMM Score: 2 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Tension Building**
**WEAKNESSES: Underlying Moral, Drawn Out**

Derren Brown: The Push (2016)

March 15, 2018

In this special reality TV presentation, one man is put through an elaborate series of social pressures all designed to see if a normal, everyday guy can be pushed to kill.

Gringo (2018)

March 13, 2018

A law abiding citizen is pulled into dealing with the Mexican cartels after his sleazy business partners screw over a gangster named "The Black Panther."

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**Directed by: Cory Finley**
**Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Olivia Cooke, Anton Yelchin**
**Rated: R for Disturbing Behavior, Bloody Images, Sexual References and Some Drug Content**
**Running Time: 1 h 32 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Acting**
**WEAKNESSES: Underlying Message**

Thoroughbreds (2017)

March 12, 2018

Lily and Amanda, two wealthy, troubled teenage girls living in suburban Connecticut, bond over the banality of their lives, their disdain Lily’s step dad, and toying with the idea of murder.

A Separation

**Directed by: Asghar Farhadi**
**Starring: Payman Maadi, Leila Hatami, Sareh Bayet**
**Rated: PG13**
**Running Time: 2h 3m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Mystery, Complicated Characters, Cultural Immersion, Acting, Deliberate Direction**
**WEAKNESSES: None**

A Separation (2011)

March 9, 2018

As an Iranian couple flirt with divorce they are accused of assault. As the mystery of what happened is revealed, so is who they truly are.

Cold in July

**Directed by: Jim Mickle**
**Starring: Michael C. Hall, Sam Shepard, Don Johnson**
**Rated: R for Disturbing Bloody Violence, Language and Some Sexuality/ Nudity**
**Running Time: 1 h 49 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Pacing**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Acting**

Cold in July (2014)

March 8, 2018

After killing a home invader, Richard Dane and his family are terrorized by the dead intruder’s father, a violent ex con. But everything changes when the two men discover something unexpected.

last men poster.jpg — Last Men in Aleppo

**Directed by: Feris Fayyad**
**Starring: Khaled Umar Harah, Batul, Mahmoud**
**Rated: NR**
**Running Time: 1h 44m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Characters, Cinema Veritae**
**WEAKNESSES: Narrow Appeal**

Last Men in Aleppo (2017)

March 6, 2018

This Best Documentary Feature Nominee follows several members of the “White Helmets,” a group of civilians in Syria’s Aleppo, who race to dig out survivor’s and the bodies of those who were killed in the targeted bombing of civilians during the Syrian civil war.

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