919ItOAU36L._AC_SL1500_.jpg — For Your Consideration (2006)

**Directed by: Christopher Guest**
**Starring: Catherine O’Hara, Harry Shearer, Parker Posey, Christopher Guest, Eugene Leavy, Christopher Moynihan, John Michael Higgins**
**Rated: PG-13 for Sexual References and Brief Language**
**Running Time: 1 h 26 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Acting, Satire, Structure**
**WEAKNESSES: Inside Jokes Won’t Work For Everyone**

For Your Consideration (2006)

February 7, 2020

An indie film production explodes into mania after it’s rumored one of the actors might be nominated for an Oscar.

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**Directed by: Oliver Stone**
**Starring: Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Jennifer Lopez, Billy Bob Thornton, Powers Boothe, Claire Danes, Jon Voight, Joaquin Phoenix, Liv Tyler**
**Rated: R for Strong Violence, Sexuality and Language**
**Running Time: 2 h 5 m**
**TMM Score: 2.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Story, Some Acting**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Acting, Directing, Editing**

U Turn (1997)

February 5, 2020

A man heading to Vegas to pay off his gambling debt is waylaid in a strange Arizona town where everything goes wrong.

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**Directed by: Edward Norton**
**Starring: Edward Norton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Alec Baldwin, Bobby Cannavale, Willem Dafoe, Bruce Willis, Ethan Suplee, Michael Kenneth Williams, Leslie Mann**
**Rated: R for Language Throughout Including Some Sexual References, Brief Drug Use, and Violence**
**Running Time: 2 h 24 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Acting, Story, Writing**
**WEAKNESSES: Length, Pacing**

Motherless Brooklyn (2019)

February 5, 2020

A private detective with Tourette’s syndrome in 1950s New York tries to solve the murder of his mentor and friend.

h 1.jpg — Harriet (2019)

**Directed By: Kasi Lemmons**
**Starring: Cynthia Erivo, Leslie Odom Jr., Joe Alwyn, Clarke Peters, Janelle Monáe**
**Rated: PG-13**
**Run Time: 2h 5m**
**TMM Score: 2 Stars**
**Strengths: Star Power, High Production Value**
**Weakness: Simplistic, Writing**

Harriet (2019)

February 4, 2020

Minty is a married slave who runs away when she suspects her master is going to sell her down south from where slaves don’t ever return. When she manages to make her escape to the Free North she changes her name to Harriet Tubman and dedicates herself to freeing as many slaves as possible.

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**Directed by: Abner Pastoll**
**Starring: Sarah Bolger, Edward Hogg, Andrew Simpson**
**Rated: NR (Suggested R for Some Strong Bloody Violence and Gory Images)**
**Running Time: 1 h 37 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Directing, Acting, Themes**
**WEAKNESSES: Mild Pacing Issues, Coincidental Moments**

A Good Woman is Hard to Find (2019)

February 3, 2020

An impoverished, recently widowed mother of two gets sucked into the world of crime that dwells right outside her door, and must fight to protect her children.

MV5BMTAxNDA1ODc5MDleQTJeQWpwZ15BbWU4MDg2MDA4OTEx._V1_.jpg — The Birds (1963)

**Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock**
**Starring: Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Veronica Cartwright, Suzanne Pleshette**
**Rated: PG-13**
**Running Time: 1 h 59 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Directing, Writing, Characters, Story, Sound Mixing, Effects**
**WEAKNESSES: Slightly Schlocky, Some Character Choices**

The Birds (1963)

January 31, 2020

A wealthy woman from San Francisco takes a trip to a Northern Californian town where she and the residents are inexplicably attacked by flocks of birds.

fc 1.jpg — Foreign Correspondent (1940)

**Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock**
**Starring: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall**
**Rated: NR**
**Run Time: 2h**
**TMM Score: 3 Stars**
**Strengths: Cinematography, Execution of Some Sequences.**
**Weakness: Seems Slight, Dated Sentimentality, Weak Love Story**

Foreign Correspondent (1940)

January 31, 2020

John Jones is tasked with drumming up the news of what is going on in Europe during the lead up to WW2. As he probes for information he witnesses an assassination, falls in love with the daughter of a peace broker, and even avoids assassination himself. Whatever it takes to get the scoop.

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**Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock**
**Starring: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter**
**Rated: PG**
**Running Time: 1 h 52 m**
**TMM Score: 4 Stars**
**STRENGTHS: Style, Intense, Fun**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Dated Material**

Rear Window (1954)

January 30, 2020

A wheelchair-bound photographer and his girlfriend believe they might’ve stumbled upon a murder.

mwktm 1.jpg — The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

**Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock**
**Starring: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda de Banzie , Bernard Miles**
**Rated: PG**
**Run Time: 2h**
**TMM Score: 4 Stars**
**Strengths: Sense of Impending Tragedy, Tension**
**Weakness: Child Acting, Annoying Song**

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

January 29, 2020

When American family, travelling abroad, the McKenna’s, meet a friendly but mysterious Frenchman, they are caught up in an international assassination plot with more than just the life of the Prime Minister at stake.

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.

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**Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock**
**Starring: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger**
**Rated: Approved**
**Running Time: 1 h 20 m**
**TMM Score: 4.5 Stars**
**STRENGTHS: Humor, Technical Aspects, Writing, Suspense**
**WEAKNESSES: Obvious Cuts**

Rope (1948)

January 28, 2020

Two men try to prove they’ve committed a perfect crime by hosting a dinner party after strangling their former classmate.

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**Directed by: Guy Ritchie**
**Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Michelle Dockery, Hugh Grant, Jeremy Strong, Colin Ferrell, Henry Goulding, Eddie Marsan**
**Rated: R for Violence, Language Throughout, Sexual References and Drug Content**
**Running Time: 1 h 53 m**
**TMM Score: 2.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Story, Some Writing, Some Acting**
**WEAKNESSES: Thinks It’s More Clever Than It Is, Pacing, Some Acting**

The Gentlemen (2019)

January 27, 2020

A drug lord tries to sell his empire to a billionaire, but things get complicated.

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**Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock**
**Starring: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 1 h 49 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Directing, Writing, Acting, Soundtrack, Editing, Cinematography, Subversion of Expectations**
**WEAKNESSES: Psychiatrist Monologue**

Psycho (1960)

January 27, 2020

A secretary steals forty thousand dollars and absconds from Phoenix, but things take a turn for the worse after she checks into a motel run by a peculiar young man and his domineering mother.

71T+hc-NRaL._RI_.jpg — Ride with the Devil (1999)

**Directed by: Ang Lee**
**Starring: Tobey McGuire, Jewel Kilcher, Skeet Ulrich, Jeffrey Wright, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Tom Wilkinson, Margo Martindale, Jim Caviezel, Mark Ruffalo**
**Rated: R for Graphic War Violence**
**Running Time: 2 h 28 m**
**TMM Score: 2.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Production Design, Cinematography, Action**
**WEAKNESSES: Length, Pacing, Some Acting**

Ride with the Devil (1999)

January 24, 2020

During the American Civil War, two friends join a band of Confederate guerrilla fighters known as the Bushwackers.

dj 1.jpg — Don Jon (2013)

**Directed By: Joseph Gordon-Levitt**
**Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Scarlett Johansson, Julianne Moore, Tony Danza, Brie Larson**
**Rated: R**
**Run Time: 1h 30m**
**TMM Score: 4 Stars**
**Strengths: Realistic Depictions of Subject Matter**
**Weakness: Uninspired Cinematography**

Don Jon (2013)

January 21, 2020

Jon is a New Jersey dream son and friend. He values work, family, and church, but, unbeknownst to his new girlfriend Barbara, pornography has shaped much of how he views relationships and women and he’s only beginning to realize what those effects are.

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**Directed by: Bernardo Bertolucci**
**Starring: Robert DeNiro, Gerard Depardieu, Dominique Sandra, Donald Sutherland**
**Rated: NR (Suggested NC-17 for Explicit Sexual Content, and Violence Including Animal Cruelty)**
**Running Time: 5 h 17 m**
**TMM Score: 2 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Cinematography, Acting, Some Amazing Sequences, Directing**
**WEAKNESSES: Animal Cruelty, Length, Themes, Also Directing**

1900 (1976)

January 17, 2020

An epic tale of class struggle in Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends- one wealthy, one poor.

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**Directed by: Jeremy Clapin**
**Starring: Hakim Faris, Victoire Du Bois, Patrick d’Assumcao**
**Rated: TV-MA**
**Running Time: 1 h 21 m**
**TMM Score: 4 Stars**
**STRENGTHS: Animation, Unique, Score, Overall Positive Message**
**WEAKNESSES: Cliche at Times**

I Lost My Body (2019)

January 16, 2020

A hand searches for its lost body, while a young man falls in love with a woman.

jn 1.jpg — Jesus of Nazareth (1977)

**Directed By: Franco Zeffirelli**
Starring: Robert Powell, Olivia Hussey, Laurence Olivier, James Mason, Anne Bancroft, Ernest Borgnine, James Farentino, Ian McShane, Christopher Plummer, Michael York, Anthony Quinn, Rod Steiger, Ian Holm, James Earl Jones, Stacy Keach, Donald Pleasence, Peter Ustinov
**Rated: TV-G**
**Run Time: 6h 22m**
**TMM Score: 5 Stars**
**Strengths: Epic Scale, Respectful Treatment of Material**
**Weakness: Length, Certain Performances, Racial Representation**

Jesus of Nazareth (1977)

January 16, 2020

The story of the life of Jesus Christ.

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**Directed by: Takashi Miike**
**Starring: Kenji Sawada, Keiko Matsuzaka, Shinji Takeda, Naomi Nishida, Tesuro Tanba, Tamaki Miyazaki**
**Rated: R for Violent Images and Some Sexual Content**
**Running Time: 1 h 53 m**
**TMM Score: 4.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Absurdity, Themes, Story, Fun, Innovation**
**WEAKNESSES: Also Absurdity**

The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)

January 15, 2020

A dark comedy concerning a family that opens an inn in a remote mountain region, only to have the arriving customers die in mysterious ways.

hl 1.jpg — A Hidden Life (2019)

**Directed By: Terrence Malick**
**Starring: August Diehl, Valerie Pachner, Maria Simon**
**Rated: PG-13**
**Run Time: 2h 54m**
**TMM Score: 5 Stars**
**Strengths: Acting, Themes**
**Weakness: Length, Pacing**

A Hidden Life (2019)

January 14, 2020

An Austrian who refuses to swear allegiance to Adolf Hitler during WW2 has his faith, his wife, his family, and his community put through the ultimate crucible as he faces the death penalty for treason.

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