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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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The Amateur (PG-13; Davenport Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
Avengers: Endgame (PG-13; Putnam Museum & Science Center: Thursday, April 17, 7 p.m.) - Directors Joe and Anthony Russo's Marvel finale is clever, funny, baffling, touching, and blissfully fan-centric. IMDb listing.
The Ballad of Wallis Island (PG-13, FilmScene at the Chauncey) - IMDb listing.
Basanta (not rated; Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
Beetlejuice (PG; Marcus Sycamore Cinema: Sunday, April 13, and Monday, April 14, 7 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
Bob Trevino Likes It (PG-13; FilmScene on the Ped Mall) - IMDb listing.
Captain America: Brave New World (PG-13; VIP Cinemas) - This 35th (!) entry in the MCU is a moderately diverting time-passer. IMDb listing.
The Chosen: The Last Supper, Part 1 (not rated; VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
The Chosen: The Last Supper, Part 2 (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas) - IMDb listing.
The Chosen: The Last Supper, Part 3 (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
Colorful Stage! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX: Thursday, April 17., 7:15 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
Dancer in the Dark (R; Friday, April 11, 9 p.m., and Wednesday, April 16, 6:30 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie (PG; Voy 61 Drive in Theatre) - A topnotch celebration of the joys of 2D animation, and particularly the hyperactive delights of its proudly un-PC heroes Daffy Duck and Porky Pig. IMDb listing.
Death of a Unicorn (R; VIP Cinemas, The Last Picture House, FilmScene at the Chauncey) - This gory comedy thriller is entertaining overall, yet it would've been far more so if it merely stuck with the silly and skimped on the soul. IMDb listing.
Dinosaurs Alive (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - Even young viewers may wind up disappointed that the 3D effects don't add much, while the rest of us might also be underwhelmed by the sub-Ray Harryhausen recreations and general blandness of the presentation. IMDb listing.
Dog Man (PG; VIP Cinemas) - Like its source-material predecessor, 2017's Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, this is is a nonstop barrage of delightful gags, puns, and visual slapstick. IMDb listing.
Drop (PG-13; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
The Encampments (not rated; FilmScene at the Chauncey) - IMDb listing.
Flight of the Butterflies (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - A bit pokey, hut 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.
Follow That Bird (G; FilmScene at the Chauncey) - IMDb listing.
Freaky Tales (R; FilmScene at the Chauncey) - IMDb listing.
The Friend (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - Scott McGehee's and David Siegel's engaging, affecting adaptation of Sigrid Nunez's National Book Award-winning bestseller won;'t require a box of Kleenex. One or two individual tissues would suffice. IMDb listing.
Good Bad Ugly (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
Grand Tour (not rated; FilmScene on the Ped Mall) - IMDb listing.
Hell of a Summer (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX) - While you won't get much from the experience as a fright flick, and probably won't find this horror comedy in any way artistically or even professionally rendered, it does have a more-than-decent cast, and you just might laugh – a lot. IMDb listing.
Hoop Dreams (PG-13; FilmScene at the Chauncey: Sunday, April 13, 6:30 p.m.) - Steve James' iconic documentary is one of the most stunningly empathetic and honest mosaics of youthful determination and talent I've seen. IMDb listing.
JAAT (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
Jack (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - MarcusTheatres.com.
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.
Julie Keeps Quiet (not rated; FilmScene on the Ped Mall) - IMDb listing.
Kaiju No. 8: Mission Recon (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX: Sunday, April 13, 2 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
Meg & the Lost Scepter (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - Putnam.org.
A Minecraft Movie (PG; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, The Last Picture House, Voy 61 Drive in Theatre, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - Little more than an unpretentious goofball slapstick for kids, or those who, for 100 minutes, agree to be wholly in touch with their inner kid - but Jack Black is astounding. 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.
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.
Neil Young: Coastal (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, Marcus Sycamore Cinema: Thursday, April 17) - IMDb listing.
Network (R; FilmScene at the Chauncey: Saturday, April 12, 10 p.m.) - Two hours of sophisticated, liberating, entertaining-as-hell anger release, even funnier than it is frightening. And it's awfully frightening. IMDb listing.
Oceans (G; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - The movie's 85 minutes occasionally crawl by as deliberately as its sea-floor denizens, yet it's hard to be too disappointed by a film that provides so many extraordinary sights. IMDb listing.
Princess Mononoke (PG-13; Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
Seconds (R; FilmScene at the Chauncey: Tuesday, April 15, 7 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
Snow White (PG; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - This Disney reboot occasionally made me Happy, but more often just Sleepy and Grumpy. IMDb listing.
Space: The New Frontier (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - 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 Her Death (not rated; FilmScene at the Chauncey: Wednesday, April 16, 10 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
Train Time (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - Putnam.org.
Warfare (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, The Last Picture House, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
Wild Africa (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - IMDb listing.
The Woman in the Yard (PG-13; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas) - The wheels eventually fall off the wagon, but for at least an hour, director Jaume Collet-Serra and his first-rate cast keep the proceedings appropriately creepy, and even somewhat moving. IMDb listing.
A Working Man (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas) - This vengeance thriller isn't a sequel but it feels like a sequel – a familiar-seeming character taking on One Last Mission you're pretty sure he took on a decade ago. IMDb listing.
