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**Directed by: Joe Johnston**
**Starring: Billy Campbell, Jennifer Connelly, Alan Arkin,Timothy Dalton, Paul Sorvino, Terry O’Quinn**
**Rated: PG**
**Running Time: 1 h 48 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Nostalgic Tone, Story, Some Acting, Ending**
**WEAKNESSES: Billy Campbell**

The Rocketeer (1991)

April 5, 2019

A young pilot finds a jetpack that allows him to be a masked hero.

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**Directed by: Travis Knight**
**Starring: Hailee Steinfeld, John Cena, Jorge Lendeborg Jr.**
**Rated: PG-13 for Sequences of Sci-Fi Action Violence**
**Running Time: 1 h 54 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Simplicity, Humor, Hailee Steinfeld, Lack of Michael Bay**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Dialogue, Predictable**

Bumblebee (2018)

April 1, 2019

Eighteen-year-old Charlie finds out her new car is actually a robot alien fugitive.

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Directed by: Ethan & Joel Coen
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, John Goodman
Rated: PG-13
Running Time: 1h 34m
TMM Score: 4.5 out of 5
STRENGTHS: Acting, Characters, Story, Aesthetic
WEAKNESSES: Pacing

Raising Arizona (1987)

March 28, 2019

An “against-the-odds” couple kidnap one of the Arizona Quintet babies when they learn they are unable to conceive a child themselves.

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**Directed by: Jeff Tremaine**
**Starring: Colson Baker, Douglas Booth, Daniel Webber, Iwan Rheon, David Costabile**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 1 h 48 m**
**TMM Score: 3 Stars**
**STRENGTHS: Good Music, Solid Performances, Very Entertaining**
**WEAKNESSES: Messy Story, Clunky Dialogue, Sloppy Direction, Not Enough Grit**

The Dirt (2019)

March 27, 2019

The rise of the notorious 80s rock band, Motley Crue.

dt 1.jpg — The Dark Tower (2017)

**Directed by: Nikolaj Arcel**
**Starring: Idris Elba, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Taylor**
**Rated: PG-13**
**Running Time: 1h 35m**
**TMM Score: 1.5 out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Idris Elba**
**WEAKNESSES: Everything Else**

The Dark Tower (2017)

March 14, 2019

When an evil force threatens the safety of all worlds, a young boy, who dreams of monsters and men, travels to a mysterious world where, with the help of a gunslinger, decides to take matters into his own hands.

Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)

**Directed by: James Cameron**
**Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Edward Furlong, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 2 h 36m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Acting, Action, Story, Special Effects**
**WEAKNESSES: Longer Than Most Action Movies**

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

March 12, 2019

A young John Connor must survive with the help of a Terminator if he is to lead the revolution in the future.

ah+1.jpg — Animal House (1978)

Directed By: John Landis
Starring: John Belushi, Stephen Furst, Karen Allen, Mark Metcalf, Donald Sutherland
Rated: R
Run Time: 1h 49m
TMM Score: 4 Stars
Strengths: Performances
Weakness: Taste in Humor Has Changed

Animal House (1978)

March 7, 2019

The College Dean has had enough. He’s going to expel every member of the raucous, crass, and rebellious Delta House but this is no group of guys to take things lying down.

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**Directed by: Brady Corbet**
**Starring: Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Stacy Martin, Raffey Cassidy, Logan Riley Bruner, Willem Dafoe**
**Rated: R for Language, Some Strong Violence, and Drug Content**
**Running Time: 1 h 54 m**
**TMM Score: 4.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Acting, Writing, Directing, Story, Music**
**WEAKNESSES: Tough Subject Matter, Increasingly Unlikable Protagonist**

Vox Lux (2018)

March 4, 2019

An unusual set of circumstances bring success to a pop star.

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**Directed by: Hirokazu Koreeda**
**Starring: Lily Franky, Sakura Ando, Kirin Kiki, Mayu Matsuoka, Jyo Kairi, Miyu Sasaki**
**Rated: R for Some Sexual Content and Nudity**
**Running Time: 2 h 1 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Story, Acting, Themes**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

Shoplifters (2018)

February 25, 2019

A ragtag group of shoplifters take in a little girl they find outside in the cold.

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**Directed by: Ali Abbasi**
**Starring: Eva Melander, Eero Milonoff, Jorgen Thorsson**
**Rated: R for Some Sexual Content, Graphic Nudity, A Bloody Violent Image, and Language**
**Running Time: 1 h 50 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Original Story, Makeup, Writing**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

Border (2018)

February 22, 2019

While aiding the police in an investigation, a customs officer who can smell fear develops an unusual attraction to a strange man.

Alita: Battle Angel (2019)

February 15, 2019

A cyborg without memory searches for herself and her place in a violent and chaotic world.

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**Directed by: Abellatif Kechiche**
**Starring: Adele Exarchopoulos, Lea Seydoux, Salim Kechiouche**
**Rated: NC-17 for Explicit Sexual Content**
**Running Time: 3 h**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Directing, Story, Acting**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

Blue is the Warmest Color (2013)

February 14, 2019

Adele, a young schoolteacher in France, has a life altering awakening when she meets Emma, an artist with blue hair.

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**Directed by: Jacques Audiard**
**Starring: Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif, Leila Bekhti**
**Rated: R for Strong Violence, Sexual Content, Nudity, Language and Drug Material**
**Running Time: 2 h 35 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Directing, Story, Acting**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

A Prophet (2009)

February 11, 2019

A directionless young Franco-Arab man is sent to a French prison where he is taken under the wing of a Corsican Mafioso.

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**Directed by: Chang-dong Lee**
**Starring: Ah-in Yoo, Steven Yeun, Jong-seo Jun**
**Rated: NR (Suggested R for Some Sexuality and Nudity, and Brief Drug Use and Violence)**
**Running Time: 2 h 28 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Directing, Themes, Atmosphere**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

Burning (2018)

February 1, 2019

A man runs into a woman that he used to know by chance and they form a tenuous friendship. After the woman returns from a trip, she introduces him to her new mysterious friend.

Suspiria (2018)

January 28, 2019

An American dancer travels to Berlin to join a mysterious dance troupe.

Roma (2018)

January 25, 2019

A year in the life of a maid living in Mexico City during the 1970s.

koasd 1.jpeg — The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)

**Directed by: Yorgos Lanthimos**
**Starring: Colin Farrell, Barry Keoghan, Nicole Kidman, Sunny Suljic**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 2h 1m**
**TMM Score: 5 Stars**
**STRENGTHS: Acting, Concept, Themes**
**WEAKNESSES: Story, Slow**

The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)

January 23, 2019

When a confident and in-control surgeon, Steven’s young mentee, Martin, informs him that Steven’s son’s mysterious illness can only be stopped by a horrifying act, he must make the hardest choice he has ever had to make.

mid 1.jpg — mid90s (2018)

**Directed by: Jonah Hill**
**Starring: Sunny Suljic, Katherine Waterston, Lucas Hedges**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 1h 25m**
**TMM Score: 4 Stars**
**STRENGTHS: Acting, Authenticity**
**WEAKNESSES: An Unmotivated Sequence Toward the End**

mid90s (2018)

January 9, 2019

Stevie is 13 and ready to grow up. When he starts hanging out with a group of older skateboarders he finds a new family full of its own dis-functions and love.

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**Directed by: Felix van Groeningen**
**Starring: Steve Carell, Timothee Chalamet, Maura Tierney, Amy Ryan, Kaitlin Dever**
**Rated: R for Drug Content Throughout, Language, and Brief Sexual Material**
**Running Time: 2 h**
**TMM Score: 3 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Acting, Story**
**WEAKNESSES: Directing, Some Cheesy Writing, Soundtrack**

Beautiful Boy (2018)

January 7, 2019

Based on a pair of best-selling memoirs from father and son David and Nic Sheff. Nic struggled for years with methamphetamine addiction.

Brazil (1985)

November 5, 2018

An everyman of an oppressively bureaucratic future becomes entangled in a conspiracy after a clerical error.

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