Uncommon Valor (1983)

April 29, 2019

Ten years after his son went MIA in Vietnam, a retired Colonel assembles a private rescue team to storm a POW camp in Laos, where he believes his son is being kept.

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**Directed by: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo**
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Josh Brolin, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Paul Rudd, Brie Larson, Karen Gillian, Tessa Thompson, Bradley Cooper
**Rated: PG-13 for Sequences of Science-Fi Violence and Action, and Some Language**
**Running Time: 3 h 1 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Subversion of Expectations, Character Development, Humor, Special Effects**
**WEAKNESSES: Length, Pacing, Fan Service**

Avengers: Endgame (2019)

April 26, 2019

The remaining Avengers fight to undo the events at the end of “Avengers: Infinity War”.

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: Peter Berg**
**Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Lauren Cohan, Iko Uwais, Ronda Rousey, John Malkovich**
**Rated: R for Strong Violence and Language Throughout**
**Running Time: 1 h 34 m**
**TMM Score: 2.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Iko Uwais, Action, Ending**
**WEAKNESSES: Writing, Acting, Length**

Mile 22 (2019)

March 28, 2019

An elite intelligence team tries to smuggle a mysterious police officer out of Indonesia.

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**Directed by: Josie Rourke**
**Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, Jack Lowden, Guy Pearce**
**Rated: R for Some Violence and Sexuality**
**Running Time: 2 h 4 m**
**TMM Score: 2 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Acting, Costumes**
**WEAKNESSES: Pacing, Writing, Directing, Out of Place Themes**

Mary Queen of Scots (2018)

March 1, 2019

An account of Mary Stuart’s relationship with Elizabeth I, Queen of England.

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**Directed by: Oliver Hirschbiegel**
**Starring: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Juliane Kohler, Thomas Kretchschmann**
**Rated: R for Strong Violence, Disturbing Images, and Some Nudity**
**Running Time: 2 h 36 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Acting, Directing, Writing, Perspective**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

Downfall (2004)

February 18, 2019

The final days of Adolf Hitler in his Berlin bunker as told from the perspective of Traudl Junge, his last secretary.

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: John Sturges**
**Starring: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence**
**Rated: NR (Suggested PG-13 for Some War Violence)**
**Running Time: 2 h 52 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Characters, Writing, Directing, Story, Acting**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

The Great Escape (1963)

January 21, 2019

Allied prisoners of war plan an escape from a German camp during World War II.

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**Directed by: Yorgos Lanthimos**
**Starring: Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz, Nicolas Hoult**
**Rated: R for Strong Sexual Content, Nudity, and Language**
**Running Time: 1 h 59 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Directing, Characters, Unique Cinematography, Production Design, Acting, Pacing**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

The Favourite (2018)

December 24, 2018

The frail Queen Anne takes advice from her confidant and secret lover Lady Sarah, whom effectively runs the kingdom, until an outsider named Abigail challenges the relationship of the Queen and Lady Sarah, testing it’s strength for her own benefit.

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**Directed by: David Lean**
**Starring: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin**
**Rated: PG-13**
**Running Time: 3h 17m**
**TMM Score: 3 Stars**
**STRENGTHS: Production**
**WEAKNESSES: Personal Connection**

Doctor Zhivago (1965)

November 6, 2018

Sprawling across the Russian landscape, this epic film follows Yuri, a doctor and poet, and Lara, a young woman with a scandalous past. As the turmoil which gripped Russia before and after WW1 tears Yuri and Lara apart, they continue to serendipitously cross paths over and over, harboring a secret love for each other.

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

September 21, 2018

A young military recruit, nicknamed Joker, got through bootcamp and then becomes a reporter for the Army’s newspaper, “The Stars and Stripes.” What he sees the military and war do to his fellow recruits is dehumanizing and thought provoking.

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**Directed by: Stanley Kubrick**
**Starring: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee**
**Rated: PG**
**Running Time: 3 h 5 m**
**TMM Score: 4.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Mise-En-Scene, Cinematography, Writing, Acting, Directing**
**WEAKNESSES: Length, Pacing During Second Act**

Barry Lyndon (1975)

September 19, 2018

An Irish scrapper slowly rises through the ranks of English aristocracy.

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**Directed by: Stanley Kubrick**
**Starring: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Slim Pickens**
**Rated: PG**
**Running Time: 1h 35m**
**TMM Score: 5 Stars**
**STRENGTHS: Acting, Script**
**WEAKNESSES: NA**

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

September 17, 2018

When a US General in the 1960s suffers a nervous breakdown, he orders an all out nuclear strike on Russia and the entire United States Military must try to stop him from starting World War III and the Apocalypse.

Paths of Glory (1957)

September 12, 2018

After failing to attack a well-fortified position, a general accuses soldiers of cowardice and a commanding officer steps in to defend them.

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**Directed by: Stanley Kubrick**
**Starring: Frank Silvera, Kenneth Harp, Paul Mazursky**
**Rated: NR**
**Running Time: 1h 2m**
**TMM Score: 2 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Cinematography**
**WEAKNESSES: It's not doing anything special.**

Fear and Desire (1953)

September 10, 2018

Four soldiers are stuck six miles behind enemy lines after a plane crash. As they make their way back to their camp they must face their own fears and decide which risks are worth taking when they run a cross a village girl who may turn them in.