Predator: Badlands
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 the President's Men (PG; FilmScene at the Chauncey: Wednesday, November 12, 6:30 p.m.) - Seeing Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford gradually amass the information necessary to end Richard Nixon's presidency is about as engrossing as cinema gets, and practically a how-to manual on performing seemingly impossible tasks with diligence, tirelessness, and conviction. IMDb listing.
Back to the Future: 40th Anniversary (PG; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX) - IMDb listing.
Black Phone 2 (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - Because the presentation is so confident and the film's look so distinctive, it might take a while to realize just how bad this supernatural-horror sequel actually is. IMDb listing.
Blue Moon (R; FilmScene at the Chauncey) - Perhaps the stagiest big-screen entertainment not based on a theatre piece since Fran Kranz's 2021 Mass. I thought I'd died and gone to Heaven. IMDb listing.
Bugonia (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, FilmScene on the Ped Mall, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - Yorgos Lanthimos' wickedly entertaining oddity is much like his other films, and also not at all. IMDb listing.
Chainsaw Man: The Movie - Reze Arc (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
Chicken Run: 25th Anniversary (PG; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX: Saturday, November 8, 12:30 p.m., and Sunday, November 9, 2:20 p.m.) - To discuss the numerous, simple joys of this Aardman animation is to risk ruining what's great about the film; how beautifully it's underplayed, and how sly and gentle its considerable streak of humor is. IMDb listing.
Christy (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Castle (R; VIP Cinemas) - IMDb listing.
Die My Love (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, FilmScene at the Chauncey, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
Earth's Greatest Enemy (not rated; FilmScene at the Chauncey: Tuesday, November 11, 6:30 p.m.) - ICFilmScene.org.
Elephants: Giants of the Desert (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - IMDb listing.
Extreme Weather (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - IMDb listing.
Frankenstein (R; The Last Picture House) - IMDb listing.
Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie (G; VIP Cinemas) - IMDb listing.
Good Boy (PG-13; VIP Cinemas) - The premise for director/co-writer Ben Leonberg's brisk, scary, subtly overpowering indie is so ingenious yet so simple that I'm frankly amazed no one ever attempted this perspective before: It's a haunted-house movie told entirely from the perspective of the dog. IMDb listing.
Grand Prix of Europe (PG; VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (PG-13; VIP Cinemas: Sunday, November 9, 1 & 7 p.m., and Wednesday, November 12, 1:40 & 7 p.m.) - Is there any cinematic sight more precious, and more unbearable, than watching two movie stars attempt to out-cute one another? IMDb listing.
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (R; FilmScene at the Chauncey: Friday, November 7, 9:45 p.m.) - Our proximity to Rose Byrne's protagonist Linda is so suffocatingly tight that we don't feel we know her so much as we are her, and as the actor's incandescent, intensely brave portrayal reveals, that's an unsettling person to be. IMDb listing.
In a Lonely Place (not rated; FilmScene at the Chauncey: Saturday, November 8, 4 p.m., and Monday, November 10, 6:30 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
It Was Just an Accident (PG-13; FilmScene on the Ped Mall) - IMDb listing.
j-jope Tour: Hope on the Stage - The Movie (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX: Wednesday, November 12, 6 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
Jaari 2: Song of Chyabrung (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
Karen Kingsbury's The Christmas Ring (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
The Last to Fall from Hero Street (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center: Saturday, November 8, 2 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
The Met Opera: La Boheme (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, Marcus Sycamore Cinema: Saturday, November 8, noon, and Wednesday, November 12, 1 & 6:30 p.m.) - MetOpera.org.
Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaoahs (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - This edu-doc ries to do too much in too little a time and engages in too much chronological leap-frogging, but it's never less than interesting, and those mega-screen vistas of Egypt are truly stunning. IMDb listing.
Nouvelle Vague (R; FilmScene at the Chauncey) - IMDb listing.
Nuremberg (PG-13; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, FilmScene at the Chauncey, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
Predator: Badlands (PG-13; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, The Last Picture House, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
Regretting You (PG-13; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - As adapted by screenwriter Susan McMartin, this Colleen Hoover soap opera is terrible, so relentless about not staying sad (or happy) for too long that it comes off as rather deranged. IMDb listing.
Rocky IV: Rocky vs. Drago - The Ultimate Director's Cut (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema: Sunday, November 9.) - IMDb listing.
Roofman (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas) - With Channing Tatum and Kirsten Dunst headlining, I had a great time at this funny, touching, rekarkably based-on-true-events tale, and that's not something I can say in regard to any of director Derek Cianfrance's previous projects. IMDb listing.
Sarah's Oil (PG; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
Self-Help (R; Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
Shelby Oaks (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX) - A resoundingly meh horror yarn that's at least a wonderful reminder of the perks that superior actors can bring to a sub-optimal project. IMDb listing.
Slap Shot (R; FilmScene at the Chauncey: Wednesday, November 12, 10 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
Somewhere (R; FilmScene at the Chauncey: Saturday, November 8, 10 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (PG-13; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - Scott Cooper's musical bio-pic is chiefly about the birth of 1982's Nebraska, and I was fascinated with the “how” behind its creation. Sadly, though, I was given little reason to care about the “why.” IMDb listing.
Stitch Head (PG; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas) - IMDb listing.
The Strike (not rated; FilmScene at the Chauncey: Thursday, November 13, 7 p.m.) - ICFilmScene.org.
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.
Top Gun (PG; Voy 61 Drive In Theatre) - To this day, Tom Cruise's square, silly military adventure features plenty of guilty pleasures, plus a few legitimate pleasures IMDb listing.
Top Gun: Maverick (PG-13; Voy 61 Drive In Theatre) - Had the movie and its star actually embraced Tom Cruise's human fallibility, this corny, retrograde, occasionally quite-entertaining outing might've really been something. IMDb listing.
Train Dreams (PG-13; The Last Picture House) - IMDb listing.
Tron: Ares (PG-13; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX) - Disney's franchise extender may not be the neo-futurist, über-relevant opus you sense it aiming to be, but “diverting” and “watchable,” in this context, certainly suffice. IMDb listing.
Twin Peaks: Episodes 2 & 3 (not rated; FilmScene at the Chauncey: Monday, November 10, 9 p.m., and Wednesday, November 12, 9:30 p.m.) - Watch David Lynch's series, then view his insanely underrated 1992 film sequel Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, then the 18 maddening/glorious hours of Showtime's Twin Peaks: The Return, then repeat the process endlessly … and then you'll finally be as crazy as I am. IMDb listing.
Virgin Punk: Clockwork Girl (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema: Tuesday, November 11, and Thursday, November 13) - IMDb listing.
Wild Rescue (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - IMDb listing.
