MV5BY2NkZjEzMDgtN2RjYy00YzM1LWI4ZmQtMjIwYjFjNmI3ZGEwXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzkwMjQ5NzM@._V1_.jpg — Goodfellas (1990)

Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Robert De Niro
Rated: R for Strong Brutal Violence, Pervasive Strong Language, Drug Use, and Some Sexuality
Running Time: 2h 28m
TMM Score: 5 Stars
STRENGTHS: Direction, Performances, Best of the Genre
WEAKNESSES: -

Goodfellas (1990)

November 26, 2019

As far back as I can remember, I’ve always wanted to be a gangster…

Mean Streets (1973)

November 26, 2019

Johnny Boy gets in over his head with a loan shark…

91PQwBtV43L._SL1500_.jpg — The Bloodstained Butterfly (1971)

**Directed by: Duccio Tessari**
**Starring: Helmut Berger, Giancarlo Sbragia, Evelyn Steart, Silvano Tranquilli, Wendy D’Olive**
**Rated: NR (Suggested R for A Scene of Sexuality, Some Violence and Thematic Elements)**
**Running Time: 1 h 39 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Story, Perspective, Twist, Cinematography**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Pacing, Some Melodrama**

The Bloodstained Butterfly (1971)

November 25, 2019

After a young girl is murdered in a park, a television anchor is arrested for her murder, but murders of a similar style soon follow.

MV5BMjIxMjgxNTk0MF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNjIyOTg2MDE@._V1_.jpg — The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

**Directed by: Martin Scorsese**
**Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Matthew McConaughey, Kyle Chandler, Rob Reiner, Jon Bernthal, Jon Favrea, Jean Dujardin, Shea Whigham, Cristin Milioti**
**Rated: R for Sequences of Strong Sexual Content, Graphic Nudity, Drug Use and Language Throughout, and For Some Violence**
**Running Time: 3 h**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Directing, Acting, General Insanity, Themes**
**WEAKNESSES:**

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

November 25, 2019

The rise and fall of Jordan Belfort, a criminal Wall Street stocker broker.

Paycheck (2003)

November 22, 2019

A reverse engineer whom has had his memory wiped finds himself in a deadly chase. Using an envelope of clues, he tries to puzzle together who is after him and why.

MV5BNjRjNWIxMWMtNzcxYi00NDYyLWFmMzAtZTRiZWZhZDMwZmVkXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjExMDE1MzQ@._V1_.jpg — The Professor and the Madman (2019)

**Directed by: Farhad Safinia**
**Starring: Mel Gibson, Sean Penn, Eddie Marsan, Natalie Dormer, Steve Coogan, Ioan Gruffud**
**Rated: NR (Suggested PG-13 for Some Violence and Thematic Elements)**
**Running Time: 2 h 4 m**
**TMM Score: 2 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Story, Acting**
**WEAKNESSES: Pacing, Melodrama, Length, Undeveloped Themes**

The Professor and the Madman (2019)

November 22, 2019

A Professor at Oxford University starts to compile a dictionary and finds enormous help from a man who has been imprisoned at a madhouse for murder.

jjr 1.jpg — Jojo Rabbit (2019)

**Directed By: Taika Waititi**
**Starring: Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie, Scarlett Johansson, Taika Waititi, Sam Rockwell, Rebel Wilson, Alfie Allen, Stephen Merchant, Archie Yates**
**Rated: PG-13**
**Run Time: 1h 48m**
**TMM Score: 3 Stars**
**Strengths: Characters, Humor, Touching Moments**
**Weakness: Cohesive Integrity, Slight**

Jojo Rabbit (2019)

November 22, 2019

Toward the end of WW2, a young boy, Jojo, a member of the Hitler Youth whose imaginary friend is also Adolf Hitler, discovers a Jew hiding in the crawlspace of his home in Berlin.

pain and glory.jpg — Pain & Glory (2019)

**Directed By: Pedro Almodovar**
**Starring: Antonio Banderas, Asier Etxeandia, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Penelope Cruz**
**Rated: R**
**Run Time: 1h 53m**
**TMM Score: 5 Stars**
**Strengths: Performances, Color, Subtlety**
**Weakness: Perhaps Length, perhaps...**

Pain & Glory (2019)

November 21, 2019

An aging filmmaker, who has taken a years long hiatus from directing, re-examines his life as he reconnects with the people and memories that are dredged up from his past when his old breakout film is given a 30 year remastering and special screening.

The American Friend (1977)

November 20, 2019

Jonathan, a man dying of cancer, wanting nothing more than to provide for his family is given a job to kill a man for a lot of money. But Jonathan is no gunman…

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.

MV5BMTcxOWYzNDYtYmM4YS00N2NkLTk0NTAtNjg1ODgwZjAxYzI3XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNTA4NzY1MzY@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,666,1000_AL_.jpg — Casino (1995)

**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.