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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.

The Ninth Configuration (1980)

December 23, 2019

An isolated institution in the Pacific Northwest tries a controversial experimental treatment on its primarily Vietnam veteran population.

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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**Directed by: Brian Henson**
**Starring: Michael Caine, Dave Goelz, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Steve Whitmire**
**Rated: G**
**Running Time: 1 h 25 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: This Movie Is Perfect**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)

December 13, 2019

A retelling of Charles Dickens’ classic novel featuring the Muppets.

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**Directed by: Rian Johnson**
**Starring: Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, Toni Collette, LaKeith Stanfeild, Christopher Plummer, Frank Oz, Riki Lindhome**
**Rated: PG-13 for Thematic Elements Including Brief Violence, Some Strong Language, Sexual References, and Drug Material**
**Running Time: 2 h 10 m**
**TMM Score: 4.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Subversion of Expectations, Writing, Directing, Acting, Humor, Themes**
**WEAKNESSES: Pacing in First Act**

Knives Out (2019)

December 10, 2019

A gentleman sleuth investigates the death of a patriarch of an rich and eccentric family.

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**Directed by: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett**
**Starring: Samara Weaving, Adam Brody, Mark O’Brien**
**Rated: R for Violence, Bloody Images, Language Throughout, and Some Drug Use**
**Running Time: 1 h 35 m**
**TMM Score: 3 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Good Balance of Horror and Humor**
**WEAKNESSES: Treads On Familiar Ground**

Ready or Not (2019)

December 6, 2019

A bride’s wedding night takes a horrific turn after her in-laws force her to participate in a game.

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**Directed by: Russ Meyer**
**Starring: Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom, John Lazar, Michael Blodgett, David Gurian**
**Rated: NC-17**
**Running Time: 1 h 49 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Characters, Themes, Story, Soundtrack, Editing, Overall Insanity**
**WEAKNESSES: Monologue at the End**

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)

December 5, 2019

Three girls in a band travel to Hollywood to make it big, but instead only find drugs, promiscuity, and a procession of insane characters.

Faster_pussycat_kill_kill_poster_(1).jpg — Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)

**Directed by: Russ Meyer**
**Starring: Tura Satana, Haji, Lori Williams, Ray Barlow, Sue Bernard, Dennis Busch, Stuart Lancaster, Paul Trinka**
**Rated: NR (Suggested R for Some Violence and Suggestive Content)**
**Running Time: 1 h 23 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Style, Story, Characters, Writing**
**WEAKNESSES: Exploitative Nature Won’t Appeal to Everyone**

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)

December 2, 2019

After three Go-Go dancers kill a man and kidnap a young girl, they come across an old man living with his two sons in the desert, and they plan to rob him of his fortune.

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**Directed by: Martin Scorsese**
**Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Matthew McConaughey, Kyle Chandler, Rob Reiner, Jon Bernthal, Jon Favrea, Jean Dujardin, Shea Whigham, Cristin Milioti**
**Rated: R for Sequences of Strong Sexual Content, Graphic Nudity, Drug Use and Language Throughout, and For Some Violence**
**Running Time: 3 h**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Directing, Acting, General Insanity, Themes**
**WEAKNESSES:**

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

November 25, 2019

The rise and fall of Jordan Belfort, a criminal Wall Street stocker broker.

Do the Right Thing (1989)

November 15, 2019

Set on the hottest day of the year in Brooklyn. A snapshot of a neighborhood dealing with racial tensions.

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**Directed by: Nicolas Pesce**
**Starring: Christopher Abbott, Mia Wasikowska, Laia Costa**
**Rated: R for Aberrant Violent and Sexual Content, Nudity, and Language**
**Running Time: 1 h 21 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Directing, Writing, Creativity, Acting**
**WEAKNESSES: More Style than Substance, Minor Deux Ex Machina**

Piercing (2018)

November 14, 2019

A man with a growing inclination towards violence decides to murder a prostitute to get it out of his system.

Her (2013)

November 14, 2019

A writer, heartbroken over an old breakup, installs an OS with such advanced AI that it becomes actually sentient and, to him at least, an actual relationship.

Parasite (2019)

November 13, 2019

A family of unemployed con-artists and thieves find the perfect mark in a trusting and unsuspecting wealthy woman and her family whose casual indifference create unexpected and violent problems.

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Directed by: Tyler Nilson, Michael Schwartz
Starring: Zack Gottsagen, Shia LaBeouf, Dakota Johnson, Bruce Dern, John Hawkes
Rated: PG-13 for Thematic Content, Language Throughout, Some Violence and Smoking
Running Time: 1h 37m
TMM Score: 5 Stars
STRENGTHS: Heartfelt, Poignant, Terrific Performances
WEAKNESSES: -

The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019)

November 12, 2019

Two very different people form a bond on an exciting journey…

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.

taof 1.jpg — Tel Aviv on Fire (2019)

**Directed By: Sameh Zoabi**
**Starring: Kais Nashif, Lubna Azabal, Yaniv Biton**
**Rated: NR**
**Run Time: 1h 40m**
**TMM Score: 4 Stars**
**Strengths: Humor, Performances**
**Weakness: Cultural Jokes May Elude Americans**

Tel Aviv on Fire (2019)

November 6, 2019

Summary

A PA on Israel’s most popular soap opera, “Tel Aviv on Fire,” gets his big break when he starts using material from his real life to impress the show’s producers.

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**Directed by: Charles Barton**
**Starring: Bud Abbot, Lou Costello, Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, Glenn Strange, Lenore Aubert, Jane Randolph**
**Rated: NR (TMM Suggested PG for Some Scary Images)**
**Running Time: 1 h 23 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Comedy, Production Design, Writing, Wide Appeal**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Jokes Go On Too Long**

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

October 27, 2019

Two freight handlers encounter Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, and the Wolf Man.

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**Directed by: Wes Craven**
**Starring: Heather Langenkamp, Miko Hughes, Wes Craven, Robert Englund**
**Rated: R for Explicit Horror Violence and Gore, and For Language**
**Running Time: 1 h 52 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Meta-Story, Atmosphere, Freddy Sequences**
**WEAKNESSES: Takes A While to Get Going**

New Nightmare (1994)

October 25, 2019

As Heather Langenkamp prepares for her role in the latest installment in the “Nightmare on Elm Street” series, she finds hers and her child’s dreams are being afflicted by Freddy.

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**Directed by: Rachel Talalay**
**Starring: Robert Englund, Lisa Zane, Shon Greenblatt, Yaphet Kotto, Johnny Depp, Roseanne Barr**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 1 h 29 m**
**TMM Score: 1.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Freddy’s Origin, One or Two Dream Sequences**
**WEAKNESSES: Everything Else**

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)

October 25, 2019

Ten years after the last “Nightmare”, Freddy has killed all but one of the remaining teens in Springwood and now must use the amnestic John Doe to lure more teens to him.

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**Directed by: Stephen Hopkins**
**Starring: Robert Englund, Lisa Wilcox, Whit Herford**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 1 h 29 m**
**TMM Score: 3 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Story, Dream Sequences, Freddy’s Return**
**WEAKNESSES: Climax, Doesn’t Work as a Standalone**

A Nightmare on Elm Street V: The Dream Child (1989)

October 25, 2019

Alice, the powerful dream warrior, finds herself beset by the nightmares of her unborn infant child.

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