Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
Blue Grass Drive-in, Blue Grass IA
Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, Davenport IA
FilmScene, Iowa City IA
Marcus Sycamore Cinema, Iowa City IA
Putnam Museum & Science Center, Davenport IA
Regal Moline, Moline IL
Voy 61 Drive In Theatre, Maquoketa IA
(Hyperlinked titles take you to Reader reviews; IMDb hyperlinks take you to the films’ Internet Movie Database pages or other sites with film information.)
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The Angry Black Girl & Her Monster (R; Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
Arctic: Our Frozen Planet (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - IMDb listing.
The Blackening: Early Access Screening (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX: Wednesday, June 14, 6 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
The Boogeyman (PG-13; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, Regal Moline, Blue Grass Drive-in, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - What's initially fascinating about director Rob Savage's solid screen version of Stephen King's terrifying short story is that it's effectively an adaptation and a sequel at the same time. IMDb listing.
Caddyshack (R; Blue Grass Drive-in) - IMDb listing.
Dream Big: Engineering Our World (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - IMDb listing,
Extreme Weather (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - IMDb listing.
Falcon Lake (not rated; FilmScene on the Ped Mall) - IMDb listing.
Fast X (PG-13; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - After you've launched your car into outer space, I suppose there's nothing to do but wait for it to crash back down to Earth, and that's basically what happens in this latest franchise installment. IMDb listing,
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (PG-13; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, Regal Moline, Blue Grass Drive-in, Voy 61 Drive In Theatre, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - Most of the performers and comedic bits are winning, but in this end, this is a movie for those who hope that Marvel never, ever veers from its proven formula. IMDb listing.
Hairspray: 35th Anniversary (PG; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX: Sunday, June 11, 4 & 7 p.m., and Wednesday, June 14, 7 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
Into America's Wild (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - IMDb listing.
Isle of Dogs (PG-13; FilmScene in the Park: Saturday, June 10, 8:40 p.m.) - This is Wes Anderson's stop-motion-animated tale of a 12-year-old boy's search for his missing pooch, and somehow, against all logic, it feels like one of the least precious works on its writer/director's résumé. IMDb listing.
Kiki's Delivery Service (G; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
The Little Mermaid (PG; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, Regal Moline, Blue Grass Drive-in, Voy 61 Drive-in Theatre, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - Lead Halle Bailey is superb, and Rob Marshall's "live-action" update is sincere, reverent, safe. and What it isn't, and what the original continues to be, is a joyous blast. IMDb listing.
Long Story Short: Willie Nelson 90 (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, Regal Moline, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
The Machine (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX) - This showcase/confessional for standup Bert Kreischer is a wreck, but I frequently laughed like hell. IMDb listing.
Mending the Line (R; Regal Moline) - IMDb listing.
Moonrise Kingdom (PG-13; FilmScene at the Chauncey) - It has charm and laughs, but it's also the unfortunate answer to the question "When is Wes Anderson too much Wes Anderson?" IMDb listing.
Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - This edu-doc tries to do too much in too little time, yet it's ever less than interesting, and those mega-screen vistas of Egypt are truly stunning. IMDb listing.
National Lampoon's Vacation (R; Blue Grass Drive-in) - For everything cringe-y about this subversive, borderline-nasty slapstick, there are about a dozen things that make me either grin or laugh out loud. IMDb listing.
National Parks Adventure (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - This expectedly gorgeous endeavor is also unexpectedly, even thrillingly, varied in presentation: sensationally informative, joyfully inspiring, and even laugh-out-loud funny. IMDb listing.
Oceans (G; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - The movie's 85 minutes occasionally crawl by as deliberately as its sea-floor denizens, but it's hard to be too disappointed by a film that provides so many extraordinary sights. IMDb listing.
Poetic Justice (R; FilmScene at the Chauncey: Wednesday, June 14, 7 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
Sanctuary (R; FilmScene on the Ped Mall) - IMDb listing.
Shrek 2 (PG; Marcus Sycamore Cinema: Tuesday, June 13, and Wednesday, June 14, noon) - This animated comedy should easily satisfy the fan base that adored the original, but for the unconverted, the sequel - its moments of inspiration aside - will be just as irksome. IMDb listing.
Sing (PG; Regal Moline: Tuesday, June 13, and Wednesday, June 14, noon) - For most of its length, this animated comedy merely coasts along on “pleasant,” unless Tori Kelly is going to town on a number, at which point it’s more like “excruciating." IMDb listing.
Soul Doctor (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 +_ IMAX, Marcus Sycamore Cinema: Tuesday, June 13, 7 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (PG; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, Regal Moline, Blue Grass Drive-in, FilmScene at the Chauncey, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - A wholly satisfying standalone experience despite the planet-sized cliffhangers, delivering so much excitement, hilarity, narrative pleasure, eye-popping detail, and deep emotion that you feel you just might implode with happiness. IMDb listing.
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (PG; Regal Moline: Tuesday, June 13, and Wednesday, June 14, noon) - Despite the misguided superhero finale, this is an easygoing, acceptable-enough expansion of SpongeBob SquarePants' animated series. IMDb listing.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie (PG; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, Blue Grass Drive-in, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - This hyperactive outing that's basically a 90-minute commercial for its products is almost obscenely colorful and antic-driven, but I was sure hoping for more cleverness and laughs than I ever got. IMDb listing.
Superpower Dogs (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - Writer/director Daniel Ferguson provides enough globe-trotting action for a James Bond flick, treating us to first-rate training footage and re-created missions in locales ranging from the Canadian Rockies to the Italian coast to a debris-strewn site near New York's Ground Zero. IMDb listing.
Tangerine (R; FilmScene at the Chauncey: Thursday, June 16, 7 p.m.) - The movie's heart lies in the lovingly tetchy friendship between its leads, who make it easy to ignore the film's mechanical plotting and frequent aimlessness. IMDb listing.
Tiny Giants (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - Wee critters are given superhero treatment in this edu-doc, and all told, it would be nearly impossible not to have a great time at this thing. IMDb listing.
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (PG-13; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, Regal Moline, Blue Grass Drive-in, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
White Fire (R; FilmScene at the Chauncey: Wednesday, June 14, 10 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
Wild Africa (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - IMDb listing.
You Hurt My Feelings (R; Regal Moline, FilmScene at the Chauncey) - You'll likely laugh a lot at Nicole Holefcener's latest, but as with so much successful cringe comedy, you'll probably do so while simultaneously wincing. IMDb listing.
