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.

h+1.jpg — Hook (1991)

**Directed By: Steven Spielberg**
**Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, Julia Roberts, Maggie Smith, Bob Hoskins**
**Rated: PG**
**Run Time: 2h 22m**
**TMM Score: 4 Stars**
**Strengths: Acting, Production Design**
**Weakness: Tinker Bell, Length**

Hook (1991)

August 16, 2019

Peter Banning is a your classic workaholic father. When he travels to England with his family to visit the woman who adopted him so many years ago his children are kidnapped by a magical pirate and Peter must face his past and destiny as the real Peter Pan the story-books were based upon.

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**Directed by: Warren Beatty**
**Starring: Warren Beatty, Charlie Korsmo, Glenne Headly, Al Pacino, Madonna, Dustin Hoffman, Mandy Patinkin, Kathy Bates, Dick Van Dyke, James Caan**
**Rated: PG**
**Running Time: 1 h 45 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Style, Direction, Makeup and Production Design, Acting, Fun**
**WEAKNESSES: Not For Everyone**

Dick Tracy (1990)

April 22, 2019

A comic strip detective finds his life increasingly complicated as he investigates the notorious Big Boy Caprice’s mob.

MV5BNTgwZmIzMmYtZjE3Yy00NzgzLTgxNmUtNjlmZDlkMzlhOTJkXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjUwNzk3NDc@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,657,1000_AL_.jpg — Midnight Cowboy (1969)

**Directed by: John Schlesinger**
**Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 1 h 53 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Acting, Writing, Creative Dream/Fantasy Sequences**
**WEAKNESSES: Failed to Engage Me Emotionally**

Midnight Cowboy (1969)

August 21, 2018

A naïve self-proclaimed hustler from Texas travels to New York, but finds he’s unable to do so. Instead he teams up with a streetwise lowlife, and the two form an unlikely friendship.

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**Directed by: Sam Peckinpah**
**Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughn**
**Rated: R for Strong Brutal Violence Including a Sexual Attack, Menace, Some Sexual Content, and Pervasive Language**
**Running Time: 1 h 58 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Pacing, Acting, Directing, Editing, Characters**
**WEAKNESSES: Uncomfortable Controversial Material**

Straw Dogs (1971)

August 14, 2018

A young American and his English wife move to the wife’s hometown, only to face harassment from the locals.

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