 Morgan Spurlock is back...but his hiatus may have been longer than you've realized (more on that in a bit). But this is one example where you should try separating the message from the messenger, because there is a lot of important, eye-opening stuff to swallow here in his latest doc.
 Greenwich Entertainment, 2019. What a talent, what a voice. In this new celebratory music doc, you have two choices: You can fall in love with Linda Ronstadt all over again, or you can fall in love with her for the first time.
 STXfilm, 2019. Jennifer Lopez gives a career-defining performance, and Constance Wu cements herself as a leading lady in this layered, hot-and-confident female tour de force.
 Warner Bros. Pictures, 2019. The 2013 novel, "The Goldfinch" by Donna Tartt is considered a modern literary classic...it was even awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. But this film adaptation doesn't seem to give the story its due justice, as it gets bogged down with melodrama and a few instances of bad casting.
 Entertainment One, IFC Films, 2019. It's the true story of Katharine Gunn (Keira Knightley), a British Whistleblower who leaked an important memo to the press, in the build-up to the America-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
 Warner Bros. Pictures, 2019. Pennywise the Clown (Bill Skarsgard) is back - 27 years after the events of the first film - looking to prey on some more innocent victims in the town of Derry, Maine...but this overblown and messy follow-up to 2017's "It" movie is really no laughing matter.
Review: 'Power of Grayskull: The Definitive History of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe'9/3/2019  High Octane Pictures, 2019. To anyone who grew up in the 80s, this new He-Man doc is a fun and insightful trip down memory lane.
 IFC Films, 2019. Deeply disturbing and at times excruciatingly painful to watch, this brutal revenge film is a nuanced, unflinching shock to the system.
 Blumhouse Pictures, 2019. Despite an interesting sci-fi premise, this action-thriller just can't establish a strong enough connection.
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