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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.

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**Directed by: Mel Gibson**
**Starring: Andrew Garfield, Hugo Weaving, Rachel Griffiths, Teresa Palmer, Vince Vaughn, Sam Worthington**
**Rated: R for Intense Prolonged Realistically Graphic Sequences of War Violence Including Grisly Bloody Images**
**Running Time: 2 h 19 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Directing, Story, Themes, Acting, Writing**
**WEAKNESSES: Pacing in First Half**

Hacksaw Ridge (2016)

August 12, 2019

The true story of Desmond Doss, a soldier who helped to save wounded at the Battle of Okinawa without ever firing a shot at the enemy.

PotC 1.jpg — The Passion of The Christ (2004)

**Directed By: Mel Gibson**
**Starring: Jim Caviezel, Monica Bellucci, Maia Morgenstern**
**Rated: R**
**Run Time: 2h 7m**
**TMM Score: 4 Stars**
**Strengths: Visual Storytelling,**
**Weakness: Certain Shots, The Marketing**

The Passion of The Christ (2004)

April 19, 2019

The story of Jesus of Nazareth’s 12-Hour Passion modeled after the 12 Stations of the Cross.

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**Directed by: S. Craig Zahler**
**Starring: Mel Gibson, Vince Vaughn, Michael Jai White, Jennifer Carpenter, Don Johnson, Laurie Holden, Thomas Kretschmann, Udo Kier, Fred Melamed**
**Rated: R for Strong Violence, Grisly Images, Language, and Some Sexuality/Nudity**
**Running Time: 2 h 39 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Acting**
**WEAKNESSES: Length, Some Unnecessary Backstory**

Dragged Across Concrete (2018)

March 25, 2019

After two cops are put on administrative leave, they turn to the underworld in order to make ends meet.

Signs (2002)

July 5, 2018

Graham (Mel Gibson), an ex-reverend, and his family, still reeling after his wife’s death, are faced with the unexplained as crop circles and shadowy figures start frequenting their farm. As fears rise, will Graham's faith begin to regrow or die for good.

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