hl 1.jpg — A Hidden Life (2019)

**Directed By: Terrence Malick**
**Starring: August Diehl, Valerie Pachner, Maria Simon**
**Rated: PG-13**
**Run Time: 2h 54m**
**TMM Score: 5 Stars**
**Strengths: Acting, Themes**
**Weakness: Length, Pacing**

A Hidden Life (2019)

January 14, 2020

An Austrian who refuses to swear allegiance to Adolf Hitler during WW2 has his faith, his wife, his family, and his community put through the ultimate crucible as he faces the death penalty for treason.

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**Directed by: Sam Mendes**
**Starring: George MacKay, Dean-Charles Chapman, Colin Firth, Andrew Scott, Mark Strong, Benedict Cumberbatch**
**Rated: R for Violence, Some Disturbing Images, and Language**
**Running Time: 1 h 59 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Direction, Cinematography, Production Design, Experience, Characters, Soundtrack**
**WEAKNESSES: Thin Story**

1917 (2019)

January 13, 2020

Two British soldiers must deliver a message deep in enemy territory that will halt an attack and possibly save the lives of 1,600 of their fellow soldiers.

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**Directed by: Paul Downs Colaizzo**
**Starring: Jillian Bell, Michaela Watkins, Jennifer Dundas, Micah Stock**
**Rated: R For Language Throughout, Sexuality and Some Drug Material**
**Running Time: 1 h 44 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Themes, Humor, Acting, Characters**
**WEAKNESSES: Ending**

Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019)

January 13, 2020

A young woman decides to make a change in her life by training for the New York City Marathon.

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**Directed by: Ang Lee**
**Starring: Will Smith, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Clive Owen, Benedict Wong**
**Rated: PG-13 for Violence and Action Throughout, and Brief Strong Language**
**Running Time: 1 h 57 m**
**TMM Score: 1 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Nothing**
**WEAKNESSES: Boring, Frame Rate, Acting, Dialogue**

Gemini Man (2019)

January 13, 2020

An aging hitman faces off against a younger clone of himself.

81VGrHnBddL._RI_.jpg — Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)

**Directed by: Tom Tykwer**
**Starring: Ben Winshaw, Dustin Hoffman, Alan Rickman**
**Rated: R for Aberrant Behavior Involving Nudity, Violence, Sexuality, and Disturbing Images**
**Running Time: 2 h 27 m**
**TMM Score: 3 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Direction, Acting, Production Design, Story, Concept**
**WEAKNESSES: Length, Ending**

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)

January 10, 2020

A perfumer with an incredible sense of smell has a deadly obsession with his pursuit of trying capture the scent of women.

tp 1.jpg — The Two Popes (2019)

**Directed By: Fernando Meirelles**
**Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Jonathan Pryce, Juan Minujín**
**Rated: PG-13**
**Run Time: 2h 5m**
**TMM Score: 4 Stars**
**Strengths: Acting, Themes**
**Weakness: Drags Slightly (in certain moments), Jarring Music Choices**

The Two Popes (2019)

January 9, 2020

The true story of how Pope Benedict and future Pope Francis conversed over a few days together to discuss the future of the Catholic Church.

Brimstone (2016)

January 8, 2020

A young mute woman is tracked by a mysterious preacher.

Hero (2002)

January 8, 2020

One “Nameless” Hero Assassin is called before the great conqueror King to relay his account of defeating the three greatest assassins and threats to his Imperial Rule.

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Directed by: Riley Stearns
Starring: Jessie Eisenberg, Alessandro Nivola, Imogen Poots, Steve Terada, Phillip Andre Botello
Rated: R for Violence, Sexual Content, Graphic Nudity and Language
Running Time: 1 h 44 m
TMM Score: 4.5 Stars
STRENGTHS: Black Humor, Story, Acting
WEAKNESSES: -

The Art of Self Defense (2019)

January 7, 2020

After being brutally mugged, Casey Davies enrolls in a Karate course taught by an eccentric sensei.

Cats (2019)

January 7, 2020

Once a year, the Jellicle Cats gather to send one to a place of heavenly reward, if the evil Macavity doesn’t get his way instead.

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**Directed by: Nicolas Pesce**
**Starring: Andrea Riseborough, Demian Bichir, John Cho, William Sadler, Jackie Weaver, Betty Gilpin**
**Rated: R for Disturbing Violence and Bloody Images, Terror and Some Language**
**Running Time: 1 h 33 m**
**TMM Score: 1 star out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: -**
**WEAKNESSES: Boring, Predictable, Acting, Jump Scares**

The Grudge (2020)

January 6, 2020

A house is haunted by a vengeful ghost.

The Forest of Love (2019)

January 6, 2020

Japanese cult director Sion Sono’s take on the Kitakysushu serial murder incident.

Che: Part Two (2008)

January 3, 2020

In 1967, Che leads a small army against the Bolivian government.

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**Directed by: Steven Soderbergh**
**Starring: Benicio Del Toro, Demian Bichir, Julia Ormond, Oscar Isaac, Edgar Ramirez**
**Rated: NR (Suggested R for Violence and Language)**
**Running Time: 2 h 14 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Story, Directing, Acting, Perspective**
**WEAKNESSES: Depiction of a Controversial Figure**

Che: Part One (2008)

January 2, 2020

Ernesto Che Guevara and a band of Fidel Castro-led Cubans mobilize to topple the regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.

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**Directed by: Casey Affleck**
**Starring: Casey Affleck, Anna Pniowsky, Elisabeth Moss, Tom Bower**
**Rated: R for Some Violence**
**Running Time: 1 h 59 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Directing, Writing, Acting**
**WEAKNESSES: Mild Pacing, Predictable**

Light of My Life (2019)

January 1, 2020

After a plague wipes out most of the female population, a father must fight to keep his immune eleven-year-old daughter safe from the men who might wish her harm.

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)

December 31, 2019

Christmas with the Griswalds!

Uncut Gems (2019)

December 31, 2019

Howard Ratner, a New York City jeweler and compulsive gambling addict, makes a series of high stakes bets in an attempt to score a huge win, while simultaneously avoiding his bookies, and balancing his wife, kids and his mistress.

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**Directed by: Jay Roach**
**Starring: Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie, John Lithgow, Kate McKinnon, Connie Britton, Malcolm McDowell, Allison Janney, Mark Duplass, Liv Hewson**
**Rated: R for Sexual Material and Language Throughout**
**Running Time: 1 h 49 m**
**TMM Score: 3 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Themes, Story, Acting**
**WEAKNESSES: Heavy-Handedness, Overall Execution**

Bombshell (2019)

December 30, 2019

Fox News, and in particular executive Roger Ailes, faces scrutiny after a group of women come forward with sexual harassment allegations.

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**Directed by: Greta Gerwig**
**Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh, Emma Watson, Eliza Scanlen, Laura Dern, Timpthee Chalamet, Tracy Letts, Bob Odenkirk, Louis Garrel, James Norton, Chris Cooper, Meryl Streep**
**Rated: PG for Thematic Elements and Brief Smoking**
**Running Time: 2 h 14 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Story Structure, Acting, Directing, Themes Cinematography, Production Design**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

Little Women (2019)

December 30, 2019

Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel about the everyday adventures of the four March sisters.

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**Directed by: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger**
**Starring: Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring**
**Rated: NR (Suggested PG for Mild Thematic Elements)**
**Running Time: 2 h 15 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Story, Cinematography, Production Design, Music, Characters**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

The Red Shoes (1948)

December 27, 2019

A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina.

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