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**Directed by: Lukas Feigelfeld**
**Starring: Aleksandra Cwen, Celina Peter, Claudia Martini, Tanja Petrovsky**
**Rated: NR (Suggest R for Disturbing Violent Content)**
**Running Time: 1 h 42 m**
**TMM Score: 4.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Directing, Cinematography, Story, Sound Design**
**WEAKNESSES: Pacing, Small Target Audience**

Hagazussa (2017)

October 5, 2020

A woman living in isolation faces judgement and persecution from a group of nearby villagers, who believe the woman to be a witch.

Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922)

October 1, 2020

A silent era documentary concerning medieval beliefs about witchcraft.

ar 1.jpg — Andrei Rublev (1966)

**Directed By: Andrei Tarkovsky**
**Starring: Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolay Grinko**
**Rated: R**
**Run Time: 3h 25m**
**TMM Score: 5 Stars**
**Strengths: Cinematography, Thematic Coherence, Acting**
**Weakness: Length Maybe?**

Andrei Rublev (1966)

April 13, 2020

The life of the great Icon Writer, Andrei Rublev, is the backdrop for this exploration of Russia, its people, history, faith, atrocities, and glory, as only a true seeker of enlightenment can.

m 1.jpg — The Mirror (1975)

**Directed By: Andrei Tarkovsky**
**Starring: Margarita Terekhova, Filipp Yankovskiy, Ignat Daniltsev**
**Rated: G**
**Run Time: 1h 47m**
**TMM Score: 5 Stars**
**Strengths: Cinematography, High Concept, Lyrical Quality**
**Weakness: Confusing**

The Mirror (1975)

March 19, 2020

An aging poet remembers his life and the events which shaped Russia during it.

h 1.jpg — Hunger (2008)

**Directed By: Steve McQueen**
**Starring: Stuart Graham, Brian Milligan, Liam McMahon, Michael Fassbender**
**Rated: NR**
**Run Time: 1h 36m**
**TMM Score: 5 Stars**
**Strengths: Acting, Cinematography, Themes**
**Weakness: NA**

Hunger (2008)

March 5, 2020

A group of young Irish freedom fighters/terrorists commit to not washing until their demands for political status are met. After some appeasement, but not all, are made, one man commits to a hunger strike that will most likely cost him his life

Harriet (2019)

February 4, 2020

Minty is a married slave who runs away when she suspects her master is going to sell her down south from where slaves don’t ever return. When she manages to make her escape to the Free North she changes her name to Harriet Tubman and dedicates herself to freeing as many slaves as possible.

71T+hc-NRaL._RI_.jpg — Ride with the Devil (1999)

**Directed by: Ang Lee**
**Starring: Tobey McGuire, Jewel Kilcher, Skeet Ulrich, Jeffrey Wright, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Tom Wilkinson, Margo Martindale, Jim Caviezel, Mark Ruffalo**
**Rated: R for Graphic War Violence**
**Running Time: 2 h 28 m**
**TMM Score: 2.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Production Design, Cinematography, Action**
**WEAKNESSES: Length, Pacing, Some Acting**

Ride with the Devil (1999)

January 24, 2020

During the American Civil War, two friends join a band of Confederate guerrilla fighters known as the Bushwackers.

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**Directed by: Bernardo Bertolucci**
**Starring: Robert DeNiro, Gerard Depardieu, Dominique Sandra, Donald Sutherland**
**Rated: NR (Suggested NC-17 for Explicit Sexual Content, and Violence Including Animal Cruelty)**
**Running Time: 5 h 17 m**
**TMM Score: 2 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Cinematography, Acting, Some Amazing Sequences, Directing**
**WEAKNESSES: Animal Cruelty, Length, Themes, Also Directing**

1900 (1976)

January 17, 2020

An epic tale of class struggle in Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends- one wealthy, one poor.

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.

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.

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.

Che: Part Two (2008)

January 3, 2020

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

5c3d240942cd15273059929d_Che - Part One (The Argentine) (2008).jpg — Che: Part One (2008)

**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.

Richard Jewell (2019)

December 26, 2019

When security guard Richard Jewell spots and alerts authorities to a bomb at the Atlanta Olympic Games, he becomes the target of a media and FBI investigation desperate to find a culprit.

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**Directed by: Scott Z. Burns**
**Starring: Adam Driver, Annette Bening, Jon Hamm, Corey Stoll, Maura Tierney, Michael C Hall, Tim Blake Nelson**
**Rated: R for Some Scenes of Inhumane Treatment and Torture, and Language**
**Running Time: 1 h 59 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Story, Acting, Themes**
**WEAKNESSES: Pacing, Length**

The Report (2019)

December 11, 2019

A senate staffer is tasked to lead an investigation into the CIA’s ‘Enhanced Interrogation Techniques.”

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**Directed by: Martin Scorsese**
**Starring: Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel, Ray Romano, Bobby Cannavale, Anna Paquin, Stephanie Kurtzuba, Jesse Plemons**
**Rated: R for Pervasive Language and Strong Violence**
**Running Time: 3 h 29 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Directing, Writing, Production Design, Scope, World Building**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

The Irishman (2019)

December 2, 2019

A mob hitman recounts his possible involvement with the killing of Jimmy Hoffa.

k 1.jpg — Kundun (1997)

**Directed By: Martin Scorsese**
**Starring: Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong, Gyurme Tethong, Tulku Jamyang Kunga Tenzin**
**Rated: R**
**Run Time: 2h 14m**
**TMM Score: 4 Stars**
**Strengths: Production Design, Direction**
**Weaknesses: NA**

Kundun (1997)

November 28, 2019

The story of the Dalai Lama’s discovery, search for enlightenment, and eventual exile from Tibet.

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**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.

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.

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