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**Directed by: Richard Curtis**
**Starring: Domhnhall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy, Tom Hollander, Margot Robbie, Lindsay Duncan, Lydia Wilson**
**Rated: R for Language and Some Sexual Content**
**Running Time: 2 h 3 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Intent, Some Writing, Acting**
**WEAKNESSES: Unacknowledged Implications and Consequences**

About Time (2013)

April 11, 2019

A young man discovers he can time travel and decides to use his newfound power to help land him a girlfriend.

ap 1.jpg — The Apple (1980)

**Directed By: Menahem Golan**
**Starring: Catherine Mary Stewart, Geourge Gilmour, Grace Kennedy**
**Rated: PG**
**Run Time: 1h 30m**
**TMM Score: 3 Stars**
**Strengths: Campy, Weird, and Just How Poorly Done It Is**
**Weakness: Everything**

The Apple (1980)

April 10, 2019

In the future of 1994, the world is dominated by celebrity, rock status, and the winner of an American Idol style battle of the bands where Mr. Boogaloo, the producer of the show and agent/manager for the winning band tugs the strings of everyone except Alphie, a folk singer who sees through his lies. Oh, it’s also a retelling of the story of Adam & Eve.

Holmes and Watson (2018)

April 9, 2019

The beloved literary characters of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson take on their silliest mission yet.

Tombstone (1993)

April 9, 2019

Wyatt Earp and his gang put there holsters back on to protect their new town of Tombstone, Arizona.

MV5BMjUyNjg1ODIwMl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNjMyOTYzNzM@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,640,1000_AL_.jpg — Pet Sematary (2019)

**Directed by: Kevin Kolsch, Dennis Widmyer**
**Starring: Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz, John Lithgow, Jete Laurence, Obssa Ahmed**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 1 h 41 m**
**TMM Score: 1.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Some Acting**
**WEAKNESSES: Pacing, Tone, Writing, Production Design, Mishandling of Story**

Pet Sematary (2019)

April 8, 2019

After a doctor buries his daughter’s dead cat in a mysterious plot of land, it comes back to life and strange incidents begin to occur.

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**Directed by: David F. Sandberg**
**Starring: Zachary Levi, Djimon Hounsou, Mark Strong, Jack Dylan Grazer, Asher Angel, Marta Milans, Adam Brody**
**Rated: PG-13 for Intense Sequences of Action, Language, and Suggestive Material**
**Running Time: 2 h 12 m**
**TMM Score: 3 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Acting, Humor, Themes**
**WEAKNESSES: Never Breaks From Superhero Formula, Length**

Shazam! (2019)

April 8, 2019

A fourteen-year-old foster kid is granted new powers that allow him to turn into a superhero.

MV5BMTY1OTA2MjI5OV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNzkxMjU4NjM@._V1_.jpg — Glass (2019)

**Directed by: M. Night Shyamalan**
**Starring: James McAvoy, Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Anya Taylor-joy, Sarah Paulson, Spencer Treat Clark**
**Rated: PG-13 for Violence and Some Bloody Images, Thematic Elements, and Language**
**Running Time: 2 h 9 m**
**TMM Score: 2 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Some Acting**
**WEAKNESSES: Writing, Directing, Themes**

Glass (2019)

April 8, 2019

Security guard David Dunn uses his super powers to track a psychotic man with multiple personalities who calls himself “The Horde.” Simultaneously, criminal mastermind Elijah Price aka Mr. Glass hatches a new plan.

MV5BN2ZiMjkwNWYtZWRjNy00YTYxLWI1ZWYtODI0NTA5YTg4ZDIxXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNDA5ODIzMDk@._V1_.jpg — The Rocketeer (1991)

**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: Norman Jewison**
**Starring: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates**
**Rated: NR (Suggested PG-13 for Thematic Material, Mild Language and Violence)**
**Running Time: 1 h 50 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Message, Acting, Story**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Side Acting by Side Characters, Familiar Message**

In the Heat of the Night (1967)

April 4, 2019

An African-American police detective is asked to assist in the investigation of a murder in Sparta, Mississippi, where the police chief and many of the officers are racist.

s 1.jpg — **Synecdoche New York (2008)**

**Directed By: Charlie Kaufman**
**Starring: Philip Seymore Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener, Tom Noonan, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Diane Wiest**
**Rated: R**
**Run Time: 2h 4m**
**TMM Score: 5 Stars**
**Strengths: Acting, Emotional Connection, Surrealism**
**Weakness: Challenging Tone**

Synecdoche New York (2008)

April 3, 2019

Caden Cotard is a depressed and sick individual. As a theater director, his introspection often takes the form of a play but as his introspection grows, so does his depression, loneliness, and the scale of his experimental new play.

917vVjnt-dL._SL1500_.jpg — The Social Network (2010)

**Directed by: David Fincher**
**Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Armie Hammer, Justin Timberlake, Rashida Jones**
**Rated: PG-13 for Sexual Content, Drug and Alcohol Use and Language**
**Running Time: 2h 1m**
**TMM Score: 5 Stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Acting, Direction, Writing, Cinematography, Score**
**WEAKNESSES: None**

The Social Network (2010)

April 2, 2019

The rise of Facebook.

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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.

MV5BMTc1OTc5NzA4OF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwOTAzMzE2NjM@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,674,1000_AL_.jpg — The Mule (2018)

**Directed by: Clint Eastwood**
**Starring: Clint Eastwood, Bradley Cooper, Michael Pena, Taissa Farminga, Laurence Fishburne, Andy Garcia, Dianne Wiest**
**Rated: R for Language Throughout and Brief Sexuality/Nudity**
**Running Time: 1 h 56 m**
**TMM Score: 3 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Some Acting, Story**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Acting, Themes**

The Mule (2018)

April 1, 2019

A 90-year-old Korean War vet is roped into being a drug mule for a Mexican cartel.

MV5BMTY1NjM0MzgxMV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNDc4NTY0NjM@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,640,1000_AL_.jpg — Vice (2018)

**Directed by: Adam McKay**
**Starring: Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Steve Carell, Sam Rockwell, Justin Kirk, Jesse Plemons, Shea Whigham, Tyler Perry, Alfred Molina, Naomi Watts**
**Rated: R for Language and Some Violent Images**
**Running Time: 2 h 12 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Acting, Directing, Some Writing**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Writing, Ending, Heavy-Handedness**

Vice (2018)

March 29, 2019

The story of Dick Cheney, the most powerful Vice President in American History, and the way he forever changed the Global political landscape.

No Country for Old Men (2007)

March 29, 2019

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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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.

MV5BNzUyODk4OTkxNF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMzY0MDgzNTM@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,674,1000_AL_.jpg — Mile 22 (2019)

**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.

O Brother, Where Art Thou (2000)

March 28, 2019

Everett, Pete, and Delmar aren’t just down on their luck during the Great Depression. They are chained together in a chain gang, till they break free in an attempt to find buried treasure that is.

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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.

91hTLjwhdrL._SY606_.jpg — **Barton Fink (1991)**

**Directed by: Joel Coen**
**Starring: John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis**
**Rated: R for Language, and Some Scenes of Violence**
**Running Time: 1 h 56 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Acting, Dark Humor, Mysterious**
**WEAKNESSES: None**

Barton Fink (1991)

March 27, 2019

Barton has hit the big time after his hit play lands him a big Hollywood writing contract but is the Hollywood dream everything an artist could ever hope for?

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