Wuthering Heights
Aledo Opera House, Aledo IL
Blue Grass Drive-in, Blue Grass IA
Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, Davenport IA
FilmScene, Iowa City IA
The Last Picture House, Davenport IA
Marcus Sycamore Cinema, Iowa City IA
Putnam Museum & Science Center, Davenport IA
VIP Cinemas, Moline IL
Voy 61 Drive In Theatre, Delmar 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 American President (PG-13; The Last Picture House: Wednesday, February 18, 8:45 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
The Apocalypse of St. John (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema: Sunday, February 15, and Tuesday, February 17) - IMDb listing.
Avatar: Fire & Ash (PG-13; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas) - The sci-fi wonders are disappointingly familiar, and not just because we only had to wait three years for a new Pandora adventure, as opposed to the 13 that passed between 2009's original Avatar and 2022's The Way of Water. IMDb listing.
Blonde Ambition (not rated; FilmScene at the Chauncey: Friday, February 13, 9:30 p.m.) - ICFilmScene.org.
Chase Atlantic: Lost in Heaven (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX: Wednesday, February 18, 6 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
Cold Storage (R; VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
Crazy, Stupid, Love. (PG-13; Aledo Opera House: Friday, February 13, through Sunday, February 15, 6 p.m.) - Nimbly directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa and smartly written by Dan Fogelman, it's a movie about people well aware of how uncharacteristic and asinine their behavior is, yet also helpless to change that behavior. IMDb listing.
Crime 101 (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
Dracula (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - Luc Besson's adaptation is two-plus hours of gorgeously designed, nearly operatic excess that's certainly one of the nervier takes on Bram Stoker's material yet produced. IMDb listing.
Elephants: Giants of the Desert (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - IMDb listing.
Eric Church: Evangeline vs. the Machine Comes Alive (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX: Saturday, February 14 7 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
Evil Dead (R; FilmScene at the Chauncey: Wednesday, February 18, 10 p.m.) - Despite the frequently - and, in one instance, literally - jaw-dropping makeup, there's nothing to suggest that Fede Alvarez is going for any degree of humor in his gruesome set pieces; he's going for scare-the-bejeezus-out-of-you shock, a sensation he never quite pulls off. IMDb listing.
Flight of the Butterflies (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - A bit pokey, but the slow, unspeakably beautiful explosion that is the butterflies' mass exodus is enough to make you believe in God - or, at the very least, in the gods of nature docs. IMDb listing.
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (R; FilmScene at the Chauncey: Friday, February 13, 10 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
Funky (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX) - IMDb listing.
GOAT (PG; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
Hamnet (PG-13; FilmScene at the Chauncey) - Although the film is anchored by a ferocious Jessie Buckley and a frequently moving Paul Mescal, it might be impossible, after seeing director/co-writer Chloé Zhao's historical fiction, to reflect on the movie without the face of its titular portrayer coming instantly to mind. IMDb listing.
The Housemaid (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX) - For close to its entire first hour, Paul Feig's psychological thriller is all kinds of fun, primarily because, over the course of those 60ish minutes, Amanda Seyfried seems to embody 60ish types of crazy. IMDb listing.
I Can Only Imagine 2: Early-Access Screening (PG; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
Inside Out 2 (PG; FilmScene at the Chauncey: Tuesday, February 17, 10 a.m. & 1 p.m.) - Easily Pixar's most satisfying entertainment of the decade, it's imaginative, thoughtful, and touching, and if nothing here rips your heart out in the manner of Bing Bong (thank God), you might find yourself laughing even harder than you did during the 2015 classic. IMDb listing.
Iron Lung (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, FilmScene at the Chauncey, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - Hands down, the most staggeringly inept video-game adaptation I've ever seen, as no one beyond those familiar with creator David Szymanski's 2022 game could possibly know what's happening on even the most simplistic narrative levels. IMDb listing.
Jurassic Park (PG-13; VIP Cinemas: Sunday, February 15, 1 & 7 p.m., and Wednesday, February 18, 2 & 7:20 p.m.) - A movie whose visuals and sound design still hold up remarkably well, and a film that pretty much wipes the floor with the relative posers of Chris Pratt's Jurassic World offerings. IMDb listing.
Jury of Her Peers (not rated; FilmScene at the Chauncey: Sunday, February 15, 4 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
The Love That Remains (not rated; FilmScene on the Ped Mall) - IMDb listing.
The Lovers on the Bridge (R; FilmScene at the Bridge: Saturday, February 14, 10 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
Me Before You (PG-13; Voy 61 Drive In Theatre: Friday, February 13, and Saturday, February 14, 6:30 p.m.) - This 2016 rom-com must certainly have been the break Emilia Clarke needed – even if, during the film’s more cloying passages and insufferable pop ballads, I’ve rarely so longed for the appearance of a dragon. IMDb listing.
Melania (PG; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas) - IMDb listing.
Mercy (PG-13; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX) - By the finale, this mildly futuristic thriller is practically sucking up to AI. The sucking beforehand was more general. IMDb listing.
The Met Opera: Cinderella Encore (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, Marcus Sycamore Cinema: Saturday, February 14, 1 p.m., and Wednesday, February 18, 1 & 6:30 p.m.) - FathomEntertainment.com.
The Moment (R; The Last Picture House, FilmScene on the Ped Mall, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie (R; FilmScene at the Chauncey) - IMDb listing.
O'Romeo (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX) - IMDb listing.
A Poet (not rated; FilmScene at the Chauncey) - IMDb listing.
Pretty in Pink: 40th Anniversary (PG-13; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
Roman Holiday (not rated; Aledo Opera House: Saturday, February 14, and Sunday, February 15, 3 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
Send Help (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas. Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - Sam Raimi's survival thriller is the ultimate “revenge on a horrible boss” comedy, and far nastier and funnier than Horrible Bosses itself. IMDb listing.
Smurfs (PG; Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - I was content enough to let this formulaic, friskily voiced family throwaway do its job. IMDb listing.
Solo Mio (PG; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants (PG; VIP Cinemas) - IMDb listing.
The Strangers: Chapter 3 (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - What can I say? At least it's over, and at least it's ending with the least offensive of its three parts. IMDb listing.
Stray Kids: The dominATE Experience (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
Superpower Dogs (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - 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.
Suzhou River (not rated; FilmScene on the Ped Mall: Saturday, February 14, 4 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
T. Rex (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - IMDb listing.
TCB: The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing (not rated; Monday, February 16, 7 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
Time Hoppers: The Silk Road (not rated; Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
The Untamed (not rated; FilmScene on the Ped Mall: Thursday, February 19, 7 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
West Side Story (not rated; Aledo Opera House: Thursday, February 19, 6 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
Wild Rescue (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - IMDb listing.
Wuthering Heights (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, The Last Picture House, FilmScene at the Chauncey, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
Zootopia 2 (PG; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema)) - Disney's sequel is almost as great as 2016's original Zootopia, which makes it almost one of the sharpest, wittiest, funniest comedies of its decade. IMDb listing.
