Moana
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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Arctic: Our Frozen Planet (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - IMDb listing.
Backrooms:Everything Must Go Edition w/ Bonus Footage (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, FilmScene at the Chauncey) - Twenty-year-old director Kane Parson's visual sense is so stunning, and his compositions so foreboding, that you could easily mistake images here for those of much-older masters, past and present. IMDb listing.
The Breadwinner (PG; VIP Cinemas) - It's like a pile-of-poo emoji with a smiley face attached -- not remotely human, but dammit, you get it, and it occasionally makes you giggle. IMDb listing.
Bugs! (not rated;; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - The 3D effects make the film's creepy-crawly world pop in enjoyable fashion, and the bugs' life-and-death struggle makes for endlessly intriguing viewing IMDb listing.
Dhamaal 4 (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX) - IMDb listing.
Disclosure Day (PG-13; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas) - I found myself raising a cocked eyebrow at Steven Spielberg's sci-fi thriller in the first five minutes, and the last five minutes, and during many of the 130 minutes in between. IMDb listing.
Dog Man (PG; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX: Monday, July 13, through Thursday, July 16) - My young pal ate this animated slapstick up with a spoon. So did the guy who paid for the tickets. IMDb listing.
Dream Big: Engineering Our World (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - IMDb listing.
Elephants: Giants of the Desert (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - IMDb listing.
Evil Dead Burn (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Blue Grass Drive-in, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
Extreme Weather (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - 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.
Frankenstein (not rated; FilmScene at the Chauncey: Wednesday, July 15, 10 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
Gail Daughtry & the Celebrity Sex Pass (R; VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
Hidden Universe (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - IMDb listing.
How to Train Your Dragon (PG; VIP CinemasL Tuesday, July 14, 10 a.m.) - This live-action remake boasts lot of terrific visuals, certainly, but also a scope made run-of-the-mill through too many similar fantasies of its type and figures and narrative beats that now, ironically, appear distractingly cartoonish. IMDb listing.
Into America's Wild (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - IMDb listing.
The Invite (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, The Last Picture House, FilmScene at the Chauncey) - IMDb listing.
The Isolate Thief (bot rated; VIP Cinemas) - IMDb listing.
Jackass: Best & Last (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas) - An ecstatic, collective middle finger to aging and chronic pain and death - not a world I want to live in, but one I'm always delighted to visit. IMDb listing.
Jerusalem (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - This visually spectacular, 45-minute edu-tainment on Israel's "cradle of civilization" is really quite a glorious piece of work. IMDb listing.
Jurassic Park (PG-13; The Last Picture House Rooftop: Thursday, July 16, 8:30 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.
Lake Mungo (R; FilmScene at the Chauncey: Monday, July 13, 7 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
Leviticus (R; FilmScene on the Ped Mall) - I sincerely hope that some enterprising grad-school students write thesis papers on this clever, surprisingly sweet freakout, because good lord is this thing rife with thematic elements deserving of in-depth exploration. IMDb listing.
Mamma Mia! (PG-13; VIP Cinemas: Sunday, July 12, 1 & 6:50 p.m., and Wednesday, July 15, 1:15 & 6:10 p.m.) - No movie featuring a wall-to-wall soundtrack of ABBA tunes can be all bad, even when they're as (occasionally) poorly sung and (frequently) poorly staged as they are here. IMDb listing.
Masters of the Universe (PG-13; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - This sword/slorcery/sci-fi is quick-witted, fast-paced, blessedly inconsequential, and awfully damned funny – so funny, in truth, that the eventual, traditionally dreaded sentimentality and schmaltz proves legitimately affecting. IMDb listing.
Michael (PG-13; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX) - Jaafar Jackson and the concert scenes are, for the most part, genuinely thrilling, but when this Jackson bio-book moves off the stage, it's oftentimes painfully terrible. IMDb listing.
Minions & Monsters (PG; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, The Last Picture House, Voy 61 Drive In Theatre, Blue Grass Drive-in, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - It's hard to think of a more ticklish recent ode to cinema than thios animated sequel, which would've been just about perfect if its monsters were ditched entirely. IMDb listing.
Moana (PG; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Voy 61 Drive In Theatre, Blue Grass Drive-in, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - This edu-doc tries to do too much in too little a time, but it's never less than interesting, and those mega-screen vistas of Egypt are truly stunning. IMDb listing.
My Neighbor Totoro (G; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
Mysteries of the Unseen World (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - One of the fastest-moving, most visually resplendent edu-tainments the Putnam has ever housed. 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.
Notting Hill (PG-13; The Last Picture House Rooftop: Friday, July 10, and Saturday, July 11, 8:45 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
Obsession (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Blue Grass Dtive-in) - This is Curry Barker's chance to give Gen Z a Fatal Attraction of its very own, and if his movie doesn't wholly succeed … . Well, Adrian Lyne's 1987 smash had major problems, too. IMDb listing.
Oceans (G; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - IMDb listing.
Pride & Prejudice (PG; FilmScene in the Park: Saturday, July 11, 8:45 p.m.) - This Jane Austein adaptation is blissfully assured, and director Joe Wright manages to keep the light comedy intact while also lending the material more emotional resonance than you might be prepared for. IMDb listing.
Scary Movie (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas) - This comic spoof is frequently thisclose to being timely without ever really getting there. IMDb listing.
Selena (PG; The Last Picture House: Wednesday, July 15, 6 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants (PG; Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
Star Wars: The Mandalorian & Grogu (PG-13; VIP Cinemas) - At one point, employing the powers of the Force, Grogu levitates a Hutt the size of a Kia Sorento. It's neither his first nor last act of heavy lifting here. IMDb listing.
Supergirl (PG-13; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - Given how bored I've been at so many cinematic superhero origin stories over the decades, I feel silly for wishing that Craig Gillespie's adventure had merely been a superhero origin story. 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.
T. Rex (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - IMDb listing.
Time & Water (PG; FilmScene at the Chauncey) - IMDb listing.
Top Gun (PG; Blue Grass Drive-in) - This squarem silly Tom Cruise smash still features plenty of guilty pleasures, plus a few legitimate pleasures. IMDb listing.
Top Gun: Maverick (PG-13; Blue Grass Drive-in) - Had the film and its star actually embraced Tom Cruise's human fallibility, this corny, retrograde, occasionally quite-entertaining outing might've really been something. IMDb listing.
The Town That Takes (not rated; VIP Cinemas) - IMDb listing.
Toy Story 5 (PG; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Blue Grass Drive-in, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - To not have fun at this movie, I think you'd have to actively try to have a bad time – which isn't to say that we didn't deserve a better one. IMDb listing.
Virgin Machine (R; FilmScene at the Chauncey: Tuesday, July 14, 7 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
Wild Rescue (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - IMDb listing.
Young Washington (PG-13; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Blue Grass Drive-in, Aledo Opera House, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - For all of the film's squareness and late-in-the-day silliness, writer/director Jon Erwin, his subtly magnetic lead, and his deeply impressive supporting ensemble delivera true American hero to root for. IMDb listing.
