One Battle After Another
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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All of You (R; FilmScene at the Chauney) - IMDb listing.
Animation Mixtape (not rated; FilmScene at the Chauncey) - IMDb listing.
The Bad Guys 2 (PG; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinema) - More often than not, this animated sequel is quite funny. Better yet, it's smart funny. IMDb listing.
Bernadette of Lourdes: The Musical (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema: Sunday, September 28, and Monday, September 29) - IMDb listing.
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, The Last Picture House, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - With Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell trying their best under awfully trying circumstances, director Kogonada's and screenwriter Seth Reiss' romantic fantasy is even more of a godawful embarrassment than it otherwise may have been. IMDb listing.
BTS 2016 Live the Most Beautiful Moment in Life on Stage: Epilogue Remastered (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX: Sunday, September 28, 12:50 p.m.) - Cinemark.com.
BTS 2017 Live Trilogy Episode III The Wings Tour The Final Remastered (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX: Sunday, September 28, 3:10 p.m.) - Cinemark.com.
BTS 2019 World Tour "Love Yourself" Speak Yourself" London (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX: Wednesday, October 1, 7:05 p.m.) - Cinemark.com.
BTS 2021 Muster Sowoozoo Remastered (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX: Thursday, October 2, 7:05 p.m.) - Cinemark.com.
Caught Stealing (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX) - Messy and not as funny as it should be, but it's a pleasure to report that a Darren Aronofsky outing is sleek and exciting again. IMDb listing.
The Conjuring: Last Rites (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Blue Grass Drive-in, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - Michael Chaves' purportedly final horror installment is largely silly, aggressively schmaltzy, and only randomly scary, but satisfying enough to earn its many callbacks and leave fans with a smile. IMDb listing.
Creature from the Black Lagoon (G; FilmScene at the Chauncey: Saturday, September 27, 10 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
Dead of Winter (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX) - IMDb listing.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Castle (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
The Devil & Miss Jones (not rated; FilmScene at the Chauncey: Monday, September 29, and Thursday, October 2, 7 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (PG; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, FilmScene at the Chauncey, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - This purportedly final installment is gorgeous, amusing, moderately touching, and agreeable as hell. It just isn't in any way interesting. IMDb listing.
Dude Perfect: The Hero Tour (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore) - IMDb listing.
Eleanor the Great (PG-13; VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
Elephants: Giants of the Desert (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - IMDb listing.
The Fantastic Four: First Steps (PG; VIP Cinemas) - 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.
Field of Dreams (PG; Voy 61 Drive In Theatre) - Phil Alden Robinson's irrationally effective charmer earned a bunch of money, a Best Picture nomination, and the souls of untold numbers of guys who'll tell you they never cry at movies but bawl like infants at this one. IMDb listing.
Freakier Friday (PG; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, 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.
Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie (G; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
Get Out (R; The Last Picture House Rooftop: Thursday, October 2, 7 p.m.) - Jordan Peele’s achievement is so thrillingly scary-funny, and so deeply satisfying, that it might take you hours or days to also recognize it as one of the angriest genre entertainments ever made. IMDb listing.
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (PG; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX) - IMDb listing.
Good Boy: Early-Access Screening (PG-13; Wednesday, October 1, 7:30 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
Hamilton (PG-13; VIP Cinemas) - As a record of filmed theatre – especially considering that Lin-Manuel Miranda's achievement is probably the greatest musical-theatre offering of the last 20 years – this piece of filmed live theatre might have exactly zero peers. IMDb listing.
Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire (PG-13; Marcus Sycamore Cinema: Sunday, September 28, 3:30 p.m., and Monday, September 29, 7 p.m.) - A very literal-minded, and therefore deeply unsurprising, adaptation, "magical" in subject matter but not in execution. IMDb listing.
Heavy Traffic (R; FilmScene at the Chauncey: Wednesday, October 1, 10 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
Him (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, FilmScene on the Ped Mall, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - Justin Tipping's bloody, joyless offering is one hyperactive perils-of-football-worship montage after another, and astute and timely subject matter is forgotten in pursuit of thrills that never emerge. IMDb listing.
The History of Sound (R; FilmScene on the Ped Mall) - This isn't the next great, epically scaled, big-screen gay romance, but for those of us who are still pining for one nearly two decades after Brokeback Mountain, there's still enough here to satisfy. IMDb listing.
Idly Kadai (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX: Tuesday, September 30, 8 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
Journey to Space (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - Says narrator Patrick Stewart of the genial scientists on-screen, "It's all about getting the job done and having a little fun" - an apt description for this edu-doc itself. IMDb listing.
Jurassic World Rebirth (PG-13; 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.
Kantara a Legend: Chapter 1 (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX: opens Wednesday, October 1) - IMDb listing.
Kygo: Back at the Bowl (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX: Tuesday, September 30, 7:25 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
A League of Their Own (PG; Voy 61 Drive In Theatre) - IMDb listing.
Lilo & Stitch (PG; Blue Grass Drive-in) - 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 Long Walk (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - For a thriller whose very premise hardly promises fun, this Stephen King adaptation gets less and less fun as it progresses, and when the end credits finally rolled after 108 increasingly harsh minutes, I wasn't cathartically wiped out so much as deeply relieved. IMDb listing.
The Lost Bus (R; Putnam Museum & Science Center: Friday, September 26, and Thursday, October 2, 7 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
Megadoc (not rated; FilmScene at the Chauncey) - IMDb listing.
Monty Python & the Holy Grail (PG; The Last Picture House Rooftop: Friday, September 26, and Saturday, September 27, 7 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
Museum Alive! (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - Putnam.org.
National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire (not rated; FilmScene at the Chauncey: Saturday, September 27, noon) - IMDb listing.
NOAH Live (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
One Battle After Another (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, The Last Picture House, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
One Hand Don't Clap (not rated; Tuesday, September 30, 7 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: 50th Anniversary (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX) - IMDb listing.
Satisfied (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
The Senior (PG; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX) - My eyes throughout this inspirational sports drama remained as dry as the Sahara, given that few movies of this type have ever seemed quite so blatantly, and agonizingly, weaponized for cheap emotion. IMDb listing.
Spider-Man (PG-13; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Syacmore Cinema: Friday, September 26) - Though occasionally overscaled and often overwritten, Sam Raimi's trilogy-starter remains a zippy, entertaining spectacle. IMDb listing.
Spider-Man 2.1 (PG-13; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Syacmore Cinema: Saturday, September 27) - Sam Raimi's superhero followup is almost ridiculously enjoyable, a rare sequel that manages to leave you craving even more. IMDb listing.
Spider-Man 3 (PG-13; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Syacmore Cinema: Sunday, September 28) - It's only the occasional inspirations that keep you from bolting from the auditorium during the hellishly bad ones. IMDb listing.
The Strangers: Chapter 2 (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
The Summer Book (not rated; FilmScene at the Chauncey) - 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.
They Call Him OG (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, Marcus Sycamore Cinema: opens Wednesday, September 24) - IMDb listing.
Toy Story: 30th Anniversary (G; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Blue Grass Drive-in) - IMDb listing.
Triumph of the Heart (not rated; VIP Cinemas) - IMDb listing.
Weapons (R; Blue Grass Drive-in) - 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.
Wings of Desire (PG-13; FilmScene in the Park: Sunday, September 28, 7:30 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
Young Frankenstein (PG; VIP Cinemas: Sunday, September 28, and Wednesday, October 1: 1 & 7 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
