c 1.jpg — Clemency (2019)

**Directed By: Chinonye Chukwu**
**Starring: Alfre Woodard, Aldis Hodge, Richard Schiff, Wendell Pierce**
**Rated: R**
**Run Time: 1h 52m**
**TMM Score: 4 Stars**
**Strengths: Acting, Themes, Atmosphere**
**Weakness: None**

Clemency (2019)

February 21, 2020

Bernadine, a Warden at a death row penitentiary, finds herself searching her mind and heart for meaning as she prepares for another condemned man’s final sentence.

Waves (2019)

February 7, 2020

A well off family struggling for love, meaning, hope, happiness, and wealth are met with a devastating tragedy which leaves them reeling.

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**Directed by: Edward Norton**
**Starring: Edward Norton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Alec Baldwin, Bobby Cannavale, Willem Dafoe, Bruce Willis, Ethan Suplee, Michael Kenneth Williams, Leslie Mann**
**Rated: R for Language Throughout Including Some Sexual References, Brief Drug Use, and Violence**
**Running Time: 2 h 24 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Acting, Story, Writing**
**WEAKNESSES: Length, Pacing**

Motherless Brooklyn (2019)

February 5, 2020

A private detective with Tourette’s syndrome in 1950s New York tries to solve the murder of his mentor and friend.

h 1.jpg — Harriet (2019)

**Directed By: Kasi Lemmons**
**Starring: Cynthia Erivo, Leslie Odom Jr., Joe Alwyn, Clarke Peters, Janelle Monáe**
**Rated: PG-13**
**Run Time: 2h 5m**
**TMM Score: 2 Stars**
**Strengths: Star Power, High Production Value**
**Weakness: Simplistic, Writing**

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.

coos 7.jpg — Color Out of Space (2019)

**Directed By: Richard Stanley**
**Starring: Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson, Madeleine Arthur, Elliot Knight, Tommy Chong , Brendan Meyer, Julian Hilliard, Josh C. Waller, Q'orianka Kilcher**
**Rated: R**
**Run Time: 1h 51m**
**TMM Score: 5 Stars**
**Strengths: Lighting and Color, Nic Cage, Cosmic Dread**
**Weakness: Some CGI and Acting Moments**

Color Out of Space (2019)

January 24, 2020

When a meteor crash lands near their home in the New England woods, one family is given a glimpse of the universe outside their capacity to grasp without insanity inducing effect.

Ford-v-Ferrari(109).jpg — Ford v Ferrari (2019)

**Directed by: James Mangold**
**Starring: Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Jon Bernthal, Caitriona Balfe, Josh Lucas, Noah Jupe, Tracy Letts**
**Rated: PG-13 for Some Language and Peril**
**Running Time: 2 h 32 m**
**TMM Score: 5 Stars**
**STRENGTHS: Acting, Writing, Technicality, Extremely Entertaining**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

Ford v Ferrari (2019)

January 23, 2020

Carroll Shelby and Ken Miles attempt to build a car that can outrace Ferrari at the La Mons race.

mf 1.jpg — Midnight Family (2019)

**Directed By: Luke Lorentzen**
**Starring: Fer Ochoa, Josue Ochoa, Juan Ochoa**
**Rated: NR**
**Run Time: 1h 20m**
**TMM Score: 3 Stars**
**Strengths: Immersion, Cinematography**
**Weakness: Lack of Subtextual Themes**

Midnight Family (2019)

January 23, 2020

The Ochoa family operates a private ambulance in corrupt, poor, and under-serviced Mexico City districts.

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: 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.

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.

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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: 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.

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.

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.

o 1.jpg — Overcomer (2019)

**Directed By: Alex Kendrick**
**Starring: Alex Kendrick, Shari Rigby, Aryn Wright-Thompson**
**Rated: PG**
**Run Time: 1h 59m**
**TMM Score: 2 Stars**
**Strengths: Main Story Beats**
**Weakness: Heavy Handedness**

Overcomer (2019)

December 24, 2019

A High School Basketball coach at a struggling private Christian high school is forced to coach the Cross Country team as well as adjust his understanding of success, meaning, and faith.

ros 1.jpg — Star Wars: Episode IX - Rise of Skywalker (2019)

**Directed By: J.J. Abrams**
**Starring: Mark Hamill, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Anthony Daniels, Naomi Ackie, Domhnall Gleeson, Richard E. Grant, Keri Russell, Joonas Suotamo, Ian McDiarmid**
**Rated: PG-13**
**Run Time: 2h 21m**
**TMM Score: 3 Stars**
**Strengths: Humor, Broad Story Strokes**
**Weakness: CGI, Scene Execution, Predictability**

Star Wars: Episode IX - Rise of Skywalker (2019)

December 20, 2019

With Emperor Palpatine’s presence now looming, Kylo Ren is hunting him down in a power mad frenzy, Rey is drawn to attempting to save Ren, and the entire resistance must band together to defeat an ancient foe, one last time.

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**Directed by: Mike Flanagan**
**Starring: Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, Kyliegh Curran, Emily Alyn Lind, Alex Essoe, Jacob Tremblay, Danny Lloyd**
**Rated: R for Disturbing Violent Content, Some Bloody Images, Language, Nudity and Drug Use**
**Running Time: 2 h 32 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Melding of Kubrick and King’s Worlds, Story, Acting, Ingenuity**
**WEAKNESSES: Pacing (Particularly in First Act), Length**

Doctor Sleep (2019)

December 20, 2019

Years after the events of “The Shining”, Dan Torrance fights to protect a girl who possesses the same psychic ability as him.

Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)

December 17, 2019

Once again, people are sucked into the world of Jumanji, and they must fight to escape.

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