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**Directed by: Peter Callow**
**Starring: Eva-Marie Kung, Ross Noble, Colin Burnicle, Griffin Stevens, Sesselia Olafs, Edward Baker-Duly**
**Rated: NR (Suggested R for Some Violence Including Disturbing Images and for Language)**
**Running Time: 1 h 33 m**
**TMM Score: 2 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Atmosphere, Concept, World Building**
**WEAKNESSES: Effects, Acting, Unlikeable Characters**

The Circle (2017)

October 7, 2020

A group of archaeology students travel to a remote Scottish island where they stumble upon a mysterious site, and soon, unusual phenomenon begin.

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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.

o 1.jpeg — Okja (2017)

**Directed By: Bong Joon-ho**
**Starring: Seo-hyun Ahn, Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano, Giancarlo Esposito, Jake Gyllenhaal, Steven Yeun, Lily Collins, Shirley Henderson**
**Rated: TV-MA**
**Run Time: 2h**
**TMM Score: 4 Stars**
**Strengths: Characters, Themes, World Building**
**Weakness: Pacing, Wildly Uneven Tone**

Okja (2017)

February 27, 2020

When international food conglomerate, Mirando, genetically engineers a food source called Super Pigs, one little peasant girl is given one as part of a publicity stunt. Ten years later Mirando wants it back but Mija isn’t giving up on her friend, without a fight.

November (2017)

February 12, 2020

A poor village in Estonia tries to survive the winter by using magic, and a young girl among the villagers attempts to woo a young man.

br 1.jpg — Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

**Directed By: Denis Villeneuve**
**Starring: Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, Ana de Armas, Robin Wright**
**Rated: R**
**Run Time: 2h 44m**
**TMM Score: 5 Stars**
**Strengths: Cinematography, Atmosphere**
**Weakness: Certain Characters, On The Nose Dialogue, Action Sequence**

Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

September 25, 2019

Years have passed since the events of “Blade Runner” and K, a replicant blade runner, is on the trail of a replicant who may hold the key to replicants becoming a true race.

Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

August 5, 2019

After her daughter is raped and killed, a mother in a small town puts up three billboards asking the police department why they haven’t found the killer.

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**Directed by: Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molina**
**Starring: Anthony Gonzalez, Gael Garcia Bernal, Benjamin Bratt, Alanna Ubach**
**Rated: PG for Thematic Elements**
**Running Time: 1 h 45 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Production Design, Themes**
**WEAKNESSES: Pacing**

Coco (2017)

June 17, 2019

An aspiring musician enters the Land of the Dead to find his great-great-grandfather, a legendary singer, to receive his blessing.

Ω.jpg — The Disaster Artist (2017)

**Directed by: James Franco**
**Starring: James Franco, Dave Franco, Alison Brie, Jacki Weaver, Paul Scheer, Seth Rogen, Zac Efron, Josh Hutcherson, Ari Graynor, Megan Mullally, Jason Mantzoukas**
**Rated: R for Language Throughout and Some Sexuality/Nudity**
**Running Time: 1 h 44 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Acting, Writing, Story**
**WEAKNESSES: Weak Ending, Narrow Audience for Some Jokes**

The Disaster Artist (2017)

June 14, 2019

The true story of Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero, the team behind the infamously bad movie The Room.

2017 1.jpg — Ghost in the Shell (2017)

Directed By: Rupert Sanders
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Pilou Asbæk, Takeshi Kitano
Rated: PG-13 for Intense Sequences of Sci-Fi Violence, Suggestive Content, and Some Disturbing Images
Run Time: 1h 47m
TMM Score: 2 Stars
Strengths: Action Sequences, Some Production Design Elements
Weakness: Story, Acting, Characterizations

Ghost in the Shell (2017)

May 28, 2019

Major Mira Killian will stop at nothing to track down Section 9’s greatest enemy, a cyber terrorist, callsign: The Puppetmaster. As she unravels the mystery behind him, will she unravel herself in a miasma of blocked memories and identity? Are these all just byproducts of being a cyborg?

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**Directed by: Jordan Vogt-Roberts**
**Starring: Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, Brie Larson, John C Reilly, John Goodman, Shea Whigham, Thomas Mann, Tian Jing, Jason Mitchell, Richard Jenkins**
**Rated: PG-13 for Intense Sequences of Sci-Fi Violence and Action, and for Brief Strong Language**
**Running Time: 1 h 58 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: It’s Dumb B-Movie Fun, Surprising Amount of Humor, Production Design, World Building**
**WEAKNESSES: It’s Dumb B-Movie Fun**

Kong: Skull Island (2017)

May 24, 2019

Assisted by a military escort, a team of scientists travels to an uncharted island in the pacific in search of monsters.

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**Directed by: Destin Daniel Cretton**
**Starring: Woody Harrelson, Brie Larson, Naomi Watts, Ella Anderson, Sarah Snook, Max Greenfield**
**Rated: PG-13 for Mature Thematic Content Involving Family Dysfunction, and For Some Language and Smoking**
**Running Time: 2 h 7 m**
**TMM Score: 2 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Acting**
**WEAKNESSES: Overly Sentimental, Betrays the Spirit of the Memoir**

The Glass Castle (2017)

April 15, 2019

Based on the memoirs of Jeanette Walls, The Glass Castle tells the story of a family living in poverty and dysfunction.

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Directed by: Ethan & Joel Coen
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, John Goodman
Rated: PG-13
Running Time: 1h 34m
TMM Score: 4.5 out of 5
STRENGTHS: Acting, Characters, Story, Aesthetic
WEAKNESSES: Pacing

Raising Arizona (1987)

March 28, 2019

An “against-the-odds” couple kidnap one of the Arizona Quintet babies when they learn they are unable to conceive a child themselves.

dt 1.jpg — The Dark Tower (2017)

**Directed by: Nikolaj Arcel**
**Starring: Idris Elba, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Taylor**
**Rated: PG-13**
**Running Time: 1h 35m**
**TMM Score: 1.5 out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Idris Elba**
**WEAKNESSES: Everything Else**

The Dark Tower (2017)

March 14, 2019

When an evil force threatens the safety of all worlds, a young boy, who dreams of monsters and men, travels to a mysterious world where, with the help of a gunslinger, decides to take matters into his own hands.

koasd 1.jpeg — The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)

**Directed by: Yorgos Lanthimos**
**Starring: Colin Farrell, Barry Keoghan, Nicole Kidman, Sunny Suljic**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 2h 1m**
**TMM Score: 5 Stars**
**STRENGTHS: Acting, Concept, Themes**
**WEAKNESSES: Story, Slow**

The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)

January 23, 2019

When a confident and in-control surgeon, Steven’s young mentee, Martin, informs him that Steven’s son’s mysterious illness can only be stopped by a horrifying act, he must make the hardest choice he has ever had to make.

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**Directed by: Paul Urkijo Alijo**
**Starring: Kandido Urgana, Uma Bracaglia, Eneko Sargardoy**
**Rated: MA**
**Running Time: 1 h 38 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Story, Production Design, Make Up, Unexpected Humor**
**WEAKNESSES: Won’t Appeal to All Audiences**

Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil (2017)

October 27, 2018

A retelling of an ancient fable about a Blacksmith who captures a demon.

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**Directed by: Joachim Trier**
**Starring: Eili Harboe, Kaya Wilkins, Henrik Rafaelsen, Elle Dorrit Petersen**
**Rated: NR (Suggested R for Some Sexuality and Violence, and Disturbing Content)**
**Running Time: 1 h 56 m**
**TMM Score: 3 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Cinematography, Writing, Acting**
**WEAKNESSES: Pacing, Themes, Familiar Story**

Thelma (2017)

October 24, 2018

While away at college, a girl with oppressive religious parents falls in love with a female friend and tries to suppress the urges, only to arouse dormant telekentic powers.