Caught Stealing
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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Architecton (G; FilmScene at the Chauncey) - IMDb listing.
The Bad Guys 2 (PG; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Blue Grass Drive-in, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - More often than not, this animated sequel is quite funny. Better yet, it's smart funny. IMDb listing.
Caught Stealing (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, The Last Picture House, FilmScene at the Chauncey, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
Clue: 40th Anniversary (PG; Marcus Sycamore Cinema: Monday, September 1, and Wednesday, September 3, 7:45 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
Clueless (PG-13; The Last Picture House Rooftop: Thursday, September 4, 7:45 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
Dazed & Confused (R; FilmScene at the Chauncey: Saturday, August 30, 10 p.m.) - You could do loads worse than spend an hour-and-a-half with the jocks, cheerleaders, freaks, nerds, bullies, hangers-on, and unexplainable whack-jobs populating Richard Linklater's thrillingly verbal ode to the joys of doing absolutely nothing. IMDb listing.
East of Wall (R; FilmScene on the Ped Mall) - IMDb listing.
Eden (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - I giggled throughout director Ron Howard's survival thriller. I'm really hoping I was meant to. IMDb listing.
Elephants: Giants of the Desert (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - IMDb listing.
The Everything Pot (not rated; FilmScene at the Chauncey: Thursday, September 4, 7 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
FI: The Movie (PG-13; VIP Cinemas) - As an unequivocal Dad Movie, this big-screen spectacle is pretty solid and successful, even though I can barely muster any enthusiasm for it. IMDb listing.
The Fantastic Four: First Steps (PG; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Voy 61 Drive In Theatre, Blue Grass Drive-in, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - By the finale, nearly everything of early interest has succumbed to the same ol' visually indistinct, destruction-of-the-universe meaninglessness, with the added hangup of the action being almost insultingly stupid. 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.
Freakier Friday (PG; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Voy 61 Drive In Theatre, Blue Grass Drive-in, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - While this body-switching comedy is entertaining and certainly harmless enough, it's also one of the more confusing family comedies I've seen in a while – not because the four young-to-senior women switch personalities, but because they don't switch them enough. IMDb listing.
Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire (PG;-13; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX: Saturday, August 30, 2 p.m., and Monday, September 1, 4:45 p.m.) - A very literal-minded, and therefore deeply unsurprising, adaptation, "magical" in subject matter but not in execution. IMDb listing.
Highest 2 Lowest (R; FilmScene at the Chauncey) - IMDb listing.
Hridayapoorvam (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX) - IMDb listing.
Honey Don't! (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - This present-day comic noir is a slapdash series of comic gambits in search of a sustaining through-line, causing you to lose hope that the myriad plot points will coalesce in any meaningful, or even satisfying, manner. IMDb listing.
How to Train Your Dragon (PG; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas) - As a live-action re-creation, the movie is impressive, in its way, but boasts close to zero in the way of personality, and a true zero in terms of fresh personality. IMDb listing.
I Know What You Did Last Summer (R; Blue Grass Drive-in) - Between the obnoxiously vocalized exposition and the performers' maddening diction issues, this unnecessary horror sequel was annoying from the word go. IMDb listing.
International Screendance Festival 2025 (not rated; FilmScene at the Chauncey: Saturday, August 30, 6:30 p.m.) - ICFilmScene.org.
Jaws: 50th Anniversary (PG; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - Steven Spielberg never more-deftly interwove the hilarious with the horrifying the way he did here, and with so little fuss, to boot. IMDb listing.
Jurassic World Rebirth (PG-13; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas) - Gareth Edwards' direction kept me from hating this dino-sequel, but I did kind of hate the fact of its existence – some $180 million spent in service of something this profoundly, infuriatingly mediocre. IMDb listing.
Lilo & Stitch (PG; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - Given Disney's “live-action” track record of recent years, "perfectly decent" is it's own kind of upgrade, and what the film is missing in magic is more than made up for in off-the-charts cute. IMDb listing.
The Lost World (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - Putnam.org.
Maniac Cop 2 (R; FilmScene at the Chauncey: Wednesday, September 3, 10 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
Museum Alive (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - Putnam.org.
The Naked Gun (PG-13; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - Maybe the summer's most ideal cineplex destination, if only for the chance, for the first time in forever, to sit among a group of strangers and laugh your effing ass off. IMDb listing.
National Parks Adventure (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - This expectedly gorgeous edu-doc is unexpectedly, even thrillingly, varied in presentation: sensationally informative, joyfully inspiring, and even laugh-out-loud funny. IMDb listing.
Ne Zha II (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas) - IMDb listing.
Nobody 2 (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - It says something about Bob Odenkirk's nique charisma that I managed to like him in this comedic action thriller that falls apart in nearly every conceivable way. IMDb listing.
Nowhere (R; FilmScene on the Ped Mall: Sunday, August 31, 7:45 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
Odum Kuthira Chadum Kuthira (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX) - IMDb listing.
Param Sundari (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX) - IMDb listing.
Prince: Sign 'O' the Times (PG-13; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX) - IMDb listing.
Relay (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - Following a truly fantasatic hour-plus, the insanely stupid climactic twist turns David Mackenzie's thriller into a running, shooting, prototypically empty-headed action flick. IMDb listing.
Return to the Lost World (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - Putnam.org.
The Roses (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, FilmScene at the Chauncey, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
Salt of the Earth (not rated; FilmScene at the Chauncey: Monday, September 1, 7 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
Signs (PG-13; The Last Picture House Rooftop: Friday, August 29, and Saturday, August 30, 7:45 p.m.) - In his 2002 thriller, M. Night Shyamalan signals the film's future Plot Points - the glasses of water left lying around the house, the one-time minor-league baseball career of Graham's brother - with an obviousness that recalls Spielberg at his worst. IMDb listing.
Smurfs (PG; VIP Cinemas) - I was just happy that I managed to smile on more than a few occasions, and even find a bit of pleasure in elements I expected to loathe. IMDb listing.
Sundarakanda (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX) - IMDb listing.
Superman (PG-13; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Blue Grass Drive-in) - This problematic big swing is more fun than most generically solid comic-book movies, because it's a determinedly weird one, and largely held together by David Corenswet's devastating sincerity and well-employed comic chops. IMDb listing.
Superpower Dogs (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - Daniel Ferguson's edu-doc 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.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: 35th Anniversary (PG; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX) - IMDb listing.
Together (R; VIP Cinemas) - This supremely clever, enjoyably gross body-horror comedy primarily succeeds, hugely succeeds, because Alison Brie and Dave Franco are such a phenomenal screen team. IMDb listing.
The Toxic Avenger (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, The Last Picture House, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
Trust (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX) - IMDb listing.
Weapons (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Blue Grass Drive-in, FilmScene on the Ped Mall, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - Despite much to love in this horror comedy, writer/director Zach Cregger is almost too inventive, his apparent making-it-up-as-he-goes-along approach so reckless that it seems to stop mattering if what we're watching makes sense. IMDb listing.
Wild Rescue (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - IMDb listing.
Will (not rated; FilmScene at the Chauncey: Tuesday, September 2, 7 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
