Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire

Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAXDavenport IA

FilmScene, Iowa City IA

The Last Picture House, Davenport IA

Marcus Sycamore CinemaIowa City IA

Putnam Museum & Science Center, Davenport IA

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.

The Ark & the Darkness (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX: Monday, April 1, 7 p.m.) - IMDb listing.

Art Talent Show (not rated; FilmScene at the Chauncey) - IMDb listing.

Arthur the King (PG-13; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - Mark Wahlberg's aggressively obnoxious performance transforms what should've been a sweet, simple heartstring-tugger into an insufferable display of grandstanding. IMDb listing.

Asphalt City (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX) - IMDb listing.

The Best Man (R; FilmScene at the Chauncey: Saturday, March 30, 3:30 p.m., and Tuesday, April 2, 7 p.m.) - IMDb listing.

Bob Marley: One Love (PG-13; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX) - This reggae-themed musical bio-pic may not be a great movie, but it is a pretty great time. IMDb listing.

Cabrini (PG-13; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX; Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - Alejandro  Monteverde's presentation of Francesca Cabrini's day-to-day struggles is just low-key enough to be persuasive, and our heroine's portrayer Christiana Dell'Anna is a marvelous presence, precisely as steely and inwardly conflicted as you could want. IMDb listing.

The Chosen: Season 4, Episodes 4 - 8 (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.

Crew (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX) - IMDb listing.

Dino Dana: The Movie (PG; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - IMDb listing.

Dune: Part Two (PG-13; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, FilmScene at the Chauncey, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - A bit more redundant than Part One, but it's hard to imagine another offering this year matching or bettering this sci-fi sequel's levels of scale, scope, and bone-deep, only-in-the-movies satisfaction. 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.

Ghostbusters: Afterlife (PG-13; Voy 61 Drive In Theatre) - If you don't share a super-fan's bone-deep adoration for this franchise, Jason Reitman's love letter to all things ectoplasmic (and, by proxy, to his dad) might just leave you confused, and more than a little depressed. IMDb listing.

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (PG-13; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, The Last Picture House, Voy 61 Drive In Theatre, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - I just sighed at the experience, and slumped into my seat further and further as the film continually struggled, and failed, to deliver anything approximating the zippy good times of Ivan Reitman's '80s blockbusters. IMDb listing.

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (PG-13; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, The Last Picture House, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.

Hate to Love: Nickelback (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX: Saturday, March 30, 7 p.m.) - IMDb listing.

Imaginary (PG-13; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX) - Blumhouse's latest chiller will remind you of M3GAN, Five Nights at Freddy's, The Black Phone, The Invisible Man … and make you wonder if there's a single original idea in the whole of the film's occasionally amusing, largely tiresome 100-plus minutes. IMDb listing.

Immaculate (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - Tis convent-horror film proves to be strong, scary stuff, and it's made immeasurably finer by Syndey Sweeney's absolute go-for-broke fearlessness. IMDb listing.

In the Land of Saints & Sinners (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX) - 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.

Jolly Roger (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - Putnam.org.

Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - This third animated sequel is hardly a debacle, but it's definitely a series low point, and all but indistinguishable from a 90-minute yawn. IMDb listing.

Late Night with the Devil (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX; FilmScene on the Ped Mall) - Amidst the considerable humor and edgy expectation of this horror-flick scenario, I most marveled at the perfectly calibrated performance of David Dastmalchian, whose Jack Delroy is as solid a calling card for potential leading-man duties as anyone could want. IMDb listing.

Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart (not rated; FilmScene at the Chauncey: Wednesday, April 3, 7 p.m.) - IMDb listing.

Love Lies Bleeding (R; FilmScene at the Chauncey, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - It's easy to have fun at Rose Glass' controlled, confident blend of period noir and modern A24 flourishes – at least for a while. IMDb listing.

Luca (PG; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.

Museum Alive! (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - Putnam.org.

National Parks Adventure (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - This expectedly gorgeous edu-doc is also unexpectedly, even thrillingly, varied in presentation: sensationally informative, joyfully inspiring, and even laugh-out-loud funny. IMDb listing.

Oceans (G; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - The movie's 85 minutes occasionally crawl by as deliberately as its sea-floor denizens, but it's hard to be too disappointed by a film that provides so many extraordinary sights. IMDb listing.

Problemista (R; FilmScene at the Chauncey) - IMDb listing.

Queens of Destruction: Cinema's First Nasty Women (not rated; FilmScene at the Chauncey: Friday, March 29, 6:30 p.m.) - ICFilmScene.org.

Robinson Crusoe (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - Putnam.org.

Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus (not rated; FilmScene on the Ped Mall) - IMDb listing.

Someone Like You (PG; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, Marcus Sycamore Cinema: Tuesday, April 2, through Thursday, April 4) - IMDb listing.

Superpower Dogs (G; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - We're given just enough information on how the heroic pups pull off their feats of derring-do to wholly appreciate them in practice, with the duties of the stunningly well-trained Ricochet proving especially moving. IMDb listing.

Terror Firmer (R; FilmScene at the Chauncey: Wednesday, April 3, 10 p.m.) - IMDb listing.

They Shot the Piano Player (PG-13; Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.

Tillu Square (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.

Tomb Racers (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - IMDb listing.

Tomboy (not rated; FilmScene at the Chauncey: Sunday, March 31, 4 p.m.) - IMDb listing.

Tremors (PG-13; FilmScene at the Chauncey: Saturday, March 30, 10 p.m.) - IMDb listing.

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