s+1.jpg — **The Sacrifice (1986)**

**Directed By: Andrei Tarkovsky**
**Starring: Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Allan Edwall**
**Rated: PG**
**Run Time: 2h 29m**
**TMM Score: 5 Stars**
**Strengths: Understated Tone, Long Takes, Thematic Integrity, Cinematography**
**Weakness: Maybe Pacing**

The Sacrifice (1986)

March 31, 2020

When WWIII threatens to annihilate his family and who knows how much of the rest of humanity, a retired aesthetics journalist and lecturer contemplates what he may be able to do to avoid cataclysm.

mp 1.jpg — Monty Python and The Holy Grail (1975)

**Directed By: Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones**
**Starring: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Michael Palin**
**Rated: PG**
**Run Time: 1h 41m**
**TMM Score: 4 Stars**
**Strengths: Writing, Performances**
**Weakness: Sound**

Monty Python and The Holy Grail (1975)

March 12, 2020

King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table are given and take up a quest from God to retrieve the Holy Grail from wherever it may be.

Vertigo (1958)

January 29, 2020

At the request of a friend, a former detective investigates an acquaintance’s wife, whom has been acting mysterious. As he does, he finds himself falling in love with the woman.

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: Greta Gerwig**
**Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh, Emma Watson, Eliza Scanlen, Laura Dern, Timpthee Chalamet, Tracy Letts, Bob Odenkirk, Louis Garrel, James Norton, Chris Cooper, Meryl Streep**
**Rated: PG for Thematic Elements and Brief Smoking**
**Running Time: 2 h 14 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Story Structure, Acting, Directing, Themes Cinematography, Production Design**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

Little Women (2019)

December 30, 2019

Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel about the everyday adventures of the four March sisters.

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.

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Directed by: Richard Marquand
Starring: Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Billy Dee Williams
Rated: PG for Sci Fi Action Violence
Running Time: 2h 16m
TMM Score: 4.5 Stars
STRENGTHS: Satisfying Conclusion, VFX, Characters
WEAKNESSES: Story not as Strong as Predecessor

Star Wars: Episode VI: The Return of the Jedi (1983)

December 18, 2019

The epic conclusion of the original Star Wars trilogy…

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Directed by: Irvin Kershner
Starring: Mark Hamill, Carrie Fischer, Harrison Ford, Billy Dee Williams
Rated: PG for Sci-Fi Action Violence
Running Time: 2h 7m
TMM Score: 5 Stars
STRENGTHS: Expanding Universe, Characters, Story, Twist
WEAKNESSES: -

Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

December 18, 2019

The saga continues for Luke Skywalker…

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)

December 17, 2019

A Farmhand from a backwater planet is caught in the crossfire of an intergalactic battle between dark and light when he receives a distress call from a captured princess and decides to help.

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**Directed by: George Lucas**
**Starring: Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Lee, Samuel L Jackson, Frank Oz, Ian McDiarmid, Rose Byrne**
**Rated: PG for Sustained Sequences of Sci-Fi Action/Violence**
**Running Time: 2 h 22 m**
**TMM Score: 3 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Some Action, Ewan McGregor, Production Design, World Building**
**WEAKNESSES: Dialogue, Ubiquitous CGI, Hayden Christensen**

Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002)

December 16, 2019

Ten years after their initial meeting, Anakin Skywalker and Padme Amidala begin a forbidden romance, while Obi-Wan Kenobi investigates an assassination attempt on Amidala’s life.

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**Directed by: George Lucas**
**Starring: Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Jake Lloyd, Keira Knightley, Ian McDiarmid, Frank Oz, Terence Stamp, Ahmed Best, Warwick Davis, Samuel L. Jackson**
**Rated: PG**
**Running Time: 2 h 16 m**
**TMM Score: 3 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Ideas, World Building, Production Design, Action, Darth Maul, John Williams’ Score**
**WEAKNESSES: Dialogue, Cinematography, Pacing, Plot Holes, Acting, Jar Jar Binks**

Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999)

December 16, 2019

Two Jedi caught up in a violent trade dispute between the Federation and Naboo discover a boy that may bring balance to the force.

MV5BNjA4MTE4NTQzN15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMjM5MzkwMzE@._V1_.jpg — The Bear (1988)

**Directed by: Jean-Jacques Annaud**
**Starring: Jack Wallace, Tcheky Karyo, Youk the Bear, Bart the Bear**
**Rated: PG**
**Running Time: 1 h 36 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Cinematography, Story, Simplicity**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

The Bear (1988)

November 29, 2019

An orphaned bear cub teams up with an adult male and the pair try to dodge human hunters.

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**Directed by: Martin Scorsese**
**Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder, Miriam Margolyes, Richard E Grant, Geraldine Chaplin**
**Rated: PG for Thematic Elements and Some Mild Language**
**Running Time: 2 h 19 m**
**TMM Score: 4.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Production Design, Themes, Acting**
**WEAKNESSES: Pacing**

The Age of Innocence (1993)

November 28, 2019

A young lawyer in high society 1870s New York falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman’s cousin.

w 1.5.jpg — Willow (1988)

**Directed By: Ron Howard**
**Starring: Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Warwick Davis, Billy Barty**
**Rated: PG**
**Run Time: 2h 6m**
**TMM Score: 4 Stars**
**Strengths: Adventure, Story Structure, Characters**
**Weakness: A Little Slight**

Willow (1988)

November 8, 2019

A Dwarf is tasked with delivering a child, chosen to fulfill prophecy, to those who will protect it from the evil Queen Bavmorda.

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**Directed by: Peter Weir**
**Starring: Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, Josh Charles**
**Rated: PG**
**Running Time: 2 h 8 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Themes, Writing, Directing, Some Acting**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Melodrama, Knox Overstreet’s Character, Somewhat Predictable**

Dead Poets Society (1989)

November 1, 2019

An English teacher at a prestigious preparatory school inspires his students to look at the world in a different light.

Solaris (1972)

October 2, 2019

Dr. Kelvin is sent to a space station orbiting the planet Solaris to discover why everyone on board went insane.

3 Women (1977)

September 2, 2019

Two roommates and an artist share a bizarre relationship after a series of emotional traumas.

d 1.jpg — Danton (1983)

**Directed By: Andrzej Wajda**
**Starring: Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Anne Alvaro**
**Rated: PG**
**Run Time: 2h 16m**
**TMM Score: 4 Stars**
**Strengths: Acting, Production Design**
**Weakness: Length**

Danton (1983)

August 28, 2019

In France, under the reign of Terror, one of the most prominent leaders of the revolution, Georges Danton, attempts to lay bare the corruption of the Committee for Public Safety and its chair, Maximillian Robespierre.

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.

c 1.jpg — Casablanca (1942)

**Directed By: Michael Curtiz**
**Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Peter Lorre**
**Rated: PG**
**Run Time: 1h 42m**
**TMM Score: 5 Stars**
**Strengths: Cinematography, Acting, Lighting**
**Weakness: Nothing**

Casablanca (1942)

August 15, 2019

When Rick, the owner of a club in Casablanca, is given travel papers for safe keeping, he is unwittingly placed at the center of a love triangle, refugee escape plan, and Nazi manhunt.

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