The Edge of Seventeen (2016)
Directed by: Kelly Fremon Craig
Starring: Hailee Steinfeld, Haley Lu Richardson, Blake Jenner, Kyra Sedgwick, Woody Harrelson, Hayden Szeto
Rated: R for Sexual Content, Language and Some Drinking- All Involving Teens
Running Time: 1 h 44 m
TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5
STRENGTHS: Writing, Acting, Humor
WEAKNESSES: A Few Cheesy Moments
Life gets more complicated for a high school student after her best friend starts dating her brother.
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Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
Directed by: Martin McDonagh
Starring: Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Caleb Landry Jones, Abbie Cornish, Lucas Hedges, Peter Dinklage, John Hawkes, Samara Weaving, Kathryn Newton
Rated: R for Violence, Language Throughout, and Some Sexual References
Running Time: 1 h 55 m
TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5
STRENGTHS: Writing, Characters, Acting, Unconventionality
WEAKNESSES: -
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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Zombieland (2009)
Directed by: Ruben Fleischer
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin
Rated: R for Horror Violence/Gore and Language
Running Time: 1h 28m
TMM Score: 3.5 Stars
STRENGTHS: Performances, Action, Hilarious
WEAKNESSES: Awful Character Decisions, Lazy Writing
Four people surviving the zombie apocalypse.
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The Glass Castle (2017)
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
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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No Country for Old Men (2007)
Directed by: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Starring:Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Kelly Macdonald, Woody Harrelson
Rated: R for Strong Graphic Violence and Some Language
Running Time: 2 h 3 m
TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5
STRENGTHS: Writing, Directing, Acting, Cinematography
WEAKNESSES: -
After a man stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong, he seizes the two million dollars left behind and runs, only to be pursued by a ruthless psychopath.
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Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
Directed by: Ron Howard
Starring: Alden Ehrenreich, Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke
Running Time: 2h 15m
Rated: PG-13
TMM Score: 3 stars out of 5 (I liked it)
STRENGTHS: Set Pieces, Some Characters
WEAKNESSES: Length, Pandering, Some Characters, Uncertain Tone, Cinematography
A young Han Solo goes on a series of adventures that were all set up in the O-G-Tril-O-Gee. How did Han meet Chewie? What EXACT hand in Sabaac won Han the Millennium Falcon? Did Han get his cool gun from some random dude? Get ready for answers to all the questions you assumed wouldn’t be very interesting.
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