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2012 In accordance with the Mayan doomsday calendar, "mutated" neutrinos emanating from the sun trigger spectacular CGI disasters on earth that culminate in a global flood. … Cinemark Movies 10

Afterschool A student accidentally videotapes the deaths of two classmates in this 2008 drama by Antonio Campos. With Ezra Miller, Jeremy White, and Michael Stuhlbarg (A … Block Museum of Art

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel Singing rodents Alvin, Theodore, and Simon return in this follow-up to the 2007 hit. Smarter than its predecessor, the movie aims for the High School … Chatham 14, Cicero ShowPlace 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Ford City, Gardens 7-13, Marcus Addison Cinemas, Marcus Chicago Heights Cinemas, Marcus Gurnee Cinemas, Marcus Orland Park Cinemas, Norridge and Showplace 14 - Galewood Crossings

Antichrist This grueling psychodrama by Lars von Trier (Dogville, Breaking the Waves) is the sort of movie that dares you not to take it seriously—it’s dedicated … Univ. of Chicago Doc Films

Armored Matt Dillon leads an ostensibly close-knit crew of armored truck guards collaborating on an inside job. Their simple plan turns to shit when one conspirator … Cinemark Movies 10

Avatar More than a decade in the making, James Cameron's 3-D fantasy about a colony of human astronauts hoping to plunder an alien rainforest represents a … Chatham 14, Ford City, Gardens 7-13, Lansing Cinema 8, Marcus Addison Cinemas, Norridge, Regal Lake Zurich Theatres 12 and River East 21

Avatar 3D More than a decade in the making, James Cameron's 3-D fantasy about a colony of human astronauts hoping to plunder an alien rainforest represents a … 600 N. Michigan, CC Tivoli Theatre, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Cicero ShowPlace 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Kerasotes ShowPlace ICON Theatre, Kerasotes Theatres Glen 10, Lake, Marcus Addison Cinemas, Marcus Chicago Heights Cinemas, Marcus Gurnee Cinemas, Marcus Orland Park Cinemas, Niles ShowPlace 12, River East 21, Showplace 14 - Galewood Crossings and Webster Place 11

Avatar: An IMAX 3D Experience More than a decade in the making, James Cameron's 3-D fantasy about a colony of human astronauts hoping to plunder an alien rainforest represents a … Navy Pier IMAX Theatre

Beeswax The talented indie director Andrew Bujalski (Funny Ha Ha, Mutual Apprecation) delivers another of his wry, socially observant romantic comedies, focusing this time on the … Gene Siskel Film Center

Black Caesar A 1973 American-International programmer by popular cult director Larry Cohen (It's Alive!, The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover). The idea, apparently, was to take … Delilah's

Blackmail A philandering, middle-aged mope (Taylor Nichols), fired from his job as second-string film critic for a Chicago daily, plunges his savings into a doomed repertory … Gene Siskel Film Center

The Blind Side Based on the nonfiction book by Michael Lewis, this potent tearjerker tells the story of Michael Oher, a gigantic black teenager from impoverished West Memphis … Century 12 and CineArts 6, Cicero ShowPlace 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Gardens 7-13, Highland Park, Kerasotes ShowPlace ICON Theatre, Kerasotes Theatres Glen 10, Marcus Addison Cinemas, Marcus Gurnee Cinemas, Regal Lake Zurich Theatres 12, River East 21, Showplace 14 - Galewood Crossings and Webster Place 11

The Book of Eli Brothers Albert and Allen Hughes (Menace II Society) redeem themselves from their overrated 2001 Jack the Ripper thriller From Hell with this entertainingly screwball take … 600 N. Michigan, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Chatham 14, Cicero ShowPlace 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Ford City, Gardens 1-6, Kerasotes ShowPlace ICON Theatre, Lake, Lansing Cinema 8, Majestic Theatre, Marcus Addison Cinemas, Marcus Chicago Heights Cinemas, Marcus Gurnee Cinemas, Marcus Orland Park Cinemas, New 400, Niles ShowPlace 12, Norridge, Regal Lake Zurich Theatres 12, River East 21, Showplace 14 - Galewood Crossings and Webster Place 11

Broken Embraces Another Pedro Almodovar movie, another blast of critical hyperbole hailing his Cukor-style alchemy with star Penelope Cruz. Normally I would just cover my head and … Landmark's Century Centre

Bronx Princess Yoni Brook and Musa Syeed directed this 2008 documentary about a 17-year-old who leaves her mother in New York City to reunite with her father, … DuSable Museum of African American History

Brothers Danish director Susanne Bier (Open Hearts) elicits wonderfully intimate performances from her actors, and this 2004 drama has so many genuine, low-key encounters it manages … Cinemark Movies 10

Capitalism: A Love Story Michael Moore catalogs some of the more grotesque outrages of the second Gilded Age: the predatory lending that led to the 2008 bank bailout, corporations … Univ. of Chicago Doc Films

Casablanca Part of what makes this wartime Hollywood drama (1942) about love and political commitment so fondly remembered is its evocation of a time when the … Music Box

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs A lumpy stew of weak characterization, lame gags, ADD-afflicted storytelling, and dazzling visual invention, this computer-generated kid flick concerns a nerdy young inventor (voiced by … Cinemark Movies 10

Collabtronica: (Chicago) New works by Torsten Zenas Burns. Nightingale

Couples Retreat A more helpful title for this date movie would have been Couples, Retreat! Vince Vaughn and Malin Akerman play a husband and wife sucked into … Cinemark Movies 10

Crazy Heart Jeff Bridges finds the perfect vehicle for his lazy charm and bitter irony in the role of Bad Blake, a washed-up country star trying to … Century 12 and CineArts 6, Crown Village 18, Davis, Kerasotes ShowPlace ICON Theatre, Kerasotes Theatres Glen 10, Lake, Landmark's Century Centre, Marcus Gurnee Cinemas, Marcus Orland Park Cinemas, Renaissance Place and River East 21

An Evening With Dara Birnbaum Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman (1978-79), commercial spots, gallery installation pieces, and other works by the American video artist. 90 min. Gene Siskel Film Center

Daybreakers Just when it seemed as if the vampire narrative had degenerated into terminal suckitude, along comes this gleefully gory little gem. It’s 2019 and vampires … 600 N. Michigan, Cicero ShowPlace 14, City North 14 and Ford City

Dear John A goody-two-shoes college student (Amanda Seyfried) falls for a gigantic slab of gorgeous (Channing Tatum), and after he returns to his special forces unit they … 600 N. Michigan, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Chatham 14, Cicero ShowPlace 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Davis, Ford City, Gardens 1-6, Kerasotes ShowPlace ICON Theatre, Kerasotes Theatres Glen 10, Lake, Marcus Addison Cinemas, Marcus Chicago Heights Cinemas, Marcus Gurnee Cinemas, Marcus Orland Park Cinemas, Niles ShowPlace 12, Norridge, Pickwick Theatre, Regal Lake Zurich Theatres 12, River East 21, Showplace 14 - Galewood Crossings and Webster Place 11

Did You Hear About the Morgans? After glimpsing an assassination, estranged Manhattan spouses Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker are assigned to a witness protection program, flown to Wyoming, and installed … Cinemark Movies 10

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie Luis Buñuel's 1972 comic masterpiece, about three well-to-do couples who try and fail to have a meal together, is perhaps the most perfectly achieved and … Block Museum of Art

Edge of Darkness Perennially vengeful Mel Gibson stars as a widowed Boston police detective whose cute, idealistic daughter (Bojana Novakovic) is shotgunned by masked bastards before his very … 600 N. Michigan, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Chatham 14, Cicero ShowPlace 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Davis, Ford City, Gardens 1-6, Kerasotes ShowPlace ICON Theatre, Kerasotes Theatres Glen 10, Lake, Lansing Cinema 8, Marcus Addison Cinemas, Marcus Chicago Heights Cinemas, Marcus Gurnee Cinemas, Marcus Orland Park Cinemas, Niles ShowPlace 12, Norridge, Regal Lake Zurich Theatres 12, River East 21, Showplace 14 - Galewood Crossings and Webster Place 11

An Education In London during the early 60s, a precocious 16-year-old schoolgirl (Carey Mulligan) is seduced by a middle-aged grifter (Peter Sarsgaard) so good at his game … Century 12 and CineArts 6, Gardens 7-13, Kerasotes Theatres Glen 10, Landmark's Century Centre, Marcus Addison Cinemas, Marcus Gurnee Cinemas, Marcus Orland Park Cinemas, Regal Lake Zurich Theatres 12, Renaissance Place and River East 21

Elevator to the Gallows The debut feature of Louis Malle, this efficient but soulless 1957 thriller is often classified as part of the French New Wave, though that reputation … Music Box

Everybody's Fine A retired widower (Robert De Niro), ignored by his grown children, sets off on a road trip to connect with each of them and discovers … Cinemark Movies 10

Extraordinary Measures Though this drama is adapted from Geeta Anand's nonfiction book The Cure, it's also the first theatrical release from CBS Films, and it sometimes feels … Marcus Addison Cinemas, Marcus Gurnee Cinemas and Marcus Orland Park Cinemas

Fantastic Mr. Fox Tony hipster Wes Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums) takes a left turn into stop-motion animation with this adaptation of the Roald Dahl children's book, and the … Classic Cinemas Ogden 6, Logan and the Vic

Fargo Set mainly in the Coen brothers' native Minnesota and harking back to the sordid themes of their first feature (Blood Simple), this 1996 crime story … the Vic

Film About a Woman Who This second feature by former dancer and choreographer Yvonne Rainer (1974, 105 min.) is a witty, clunky, angry, inventive, stubborn, "very New York," feminist experimental … Univ. of Chicago Film Studies Center

The Fireman's Ball Milos Forman's 1967 film of little people confronting little disasters, as the annual ball of a small Czech town goes hopelessly wrong. With Loves of … Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College

Fish Tank British filmmaker Andrea Arnold made her feature debut with Red Road (2006), an eerie, low-budget suspense story about a woman stalking, seducing, and finally exacting … Music Box

From Paris With Love No movie star appears to have more fun in a crap movie than John Travolta, and his inimitable my-check-has-cleared! glee is the best thing about … 600 N. Michigan, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Chatham 14, Cicero ShowPlace 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Ford City, Gardens 7-13, Kerasotes ShowPlace ICON Theatre, Lansing Cinema 8, Marcus Addison Cinemas, Marcus Chicago Heights Cinemas, Marcus Gurnee Cinemas, Marcus Orland Park Cinemas, New 400, Niles ShowPlace 12, Norridge, Regal Lake Zurich Theatres 12, River East 21 and Showplace 14 - Galewood Crossings

Frozen Three cash-strapped young ski bums (Emma Bell, Shawn Ashmore, Kevin Zegers) con their way onto the slopes, then pay a huge price when a feckless … River East 21

Gone Rogue: An Iconoclastic Look at Church and State Chicago Filmmakers

GoodFellas Martin Scorsese collaborated with Nicholas Pileggi on this 1990 adaptation of Wiseguy, Pileggi's nonfiction book about gangsters in Brooklyn, and in terms of narrative fluidity … Northbrook Public Library

History Is Made at Night Frank Borzage, the most radiant romantic sensibility of the American cinema, is represented here by one of his warmest, most perfect works (1937). Maitre d' … Bank of America Cinema

The Human Body Using cutting-edge medical and cinematic imaging techniques, the makers of this large-format biology lesson get under the skin of their subjects—the members of a family—during … Omnimax Theatre - Museum of Science & Industry

A Hunting Accident Gene Siskel Film Center

The Hurt Locker Kathryn Bigelow's heart-stopping Iraq war drama follows a U.S. army bomb squad around Baghdad as it defuses IEDs, a job that places the men in … Cinemark Movies 10 and Logan

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Not even 3D can save this third entry in the Fox animation franchise about a motley crew of prehistoric creatures. This time they face threats … CC Tivoli Theatre

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus What a troublesome filmmaker we have in Terry Gilliam: his vision is unique, yet the same feverish imagination that makes his movies so engrossing threatens … Marcus Addison Cinemas, Music Box and Pipers Alley

Inglourious Basterds Quentin Tarantino’s long-awaited action flick isn’t a World War II movie—it’s a movie about World War II movies and, by extension, how the Third Reich … Cinemark Movies 10

Invictus Based on a book by John Carlin, this elephantine sports drama chronicles President Nelson Mandela's quest to unite black and white South Africans by driving … Highland Park and Pipers Alley

It's Complicated Nancy Meyers has become not just a writer-director but a brand: after What Women Want (2000) and Something's Gotta Give (2003), middle-aged women know they … 600 N. Michigan, Catlow Theatre, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Cinemark Movies 10, Classic Cinemas Ogden 6, Gardens 7-13, Highland Park, Kerasotes ShowPlace ICON Theatre, Kerasotes Theatres Glen 10, Marcus Addison Cinemas, Marcus Chicago Heights Cinemas, Marcus Gurnee Cinemas, Marcus Orland Park Cinemas, Pickwick Theatre, Regal Lake Zurich Theatres 12, River East 21 and Webster Place 11

The Last Station Adapted from a novel by Jay Parini, this lively costume drama chronicles the last days of Leo Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer), presented here as a knock-down, … Century 12 and CineArts 6, Landmark's Century Centre and Renaissance Place

Law Abiding Citizen Generally I don’t mind a little recreational fascism as long as it’s deep-fried in savory violent vengeance, but this overwrought mess gives vigilantism a bad … Cinemark Movies 10

Leap Year A materialistic, Type-A career gal (Amy Adams), desperate to marry handsome but shallow cardiologist boyfriend (Adam Scott), is prompted by her doting dad (John Lithgow) … Cinemark Movies 10, Classic Cinemas Ogden 6, Majestic Theatre and River East 21

Legion According to an introductory voice-over, God Almighty is "tired of all the bullshit" and orders his angels to wipe out humankind. But it's hard to … 600 N. Michigan, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Chatham 14, Cicero ShowPlace 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Ford City, Lansing Cinema 8, Marcus Addison Cinemas, Marcus Chicago Heights Cinemas, Marcus Gurnee Cinemas, Marcus Orland Park Cinemas, New 400, Niles ShowPlace 12, Norridge, River East 21 and Showplace 14 - Galewood Crossings

Life as Lincoln Gene Siskel Film Center

Love Jones Starting with the wonderful black-and-white documentary footage at the beginning, this 1997 first feature by writer-director Theodore Witcher is a fresh and agreeable romantic comedy … Film Row Cinema, Columbia College

The Lovely Bones Peter Jackson's adaptation of Alice Sebold's best-selling novel hovers just this side of Ghost Whisperer kitsch but remains compulsively watchable thanks to its smart ensemble … Century 12 and CineArts 6, Chatham 14, Cicero ShowPlace 14, Classic Cinemas Ogden 6, Crown Village 18, Ford City, Gardens 1-6, Lake, Marcus Addison Cinemas, Marcus Chicago Heights Cinemas, Marcus Gurnee Cinemas, Marcus Orland Park Cinemas, Niles ShowPlace 12, Norridge, Regal Lake Zurich Theatres 12, River East 21, Showplace 14 - Galewood Crossings and Webster Place 11

Maurice Hot on the heels of A Room With a View, director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant adapted another E.M. Forster novel, posthumously published in … Block Museum of Art

The Messenger Fred Williamson offs the pushers in this Italian-produced antidrug actioner; Williamson directed, and Chris Connelly, Cameron Mitchell, and Michael Dante costar. Gene Siskel Film Center and Gene Siskel Film Center

The Messenger After being wounded in Iraq, a valorous but emotionally repressed soldier (Ben Foster) returns to the States, where the army, displaying all the irony of … Gene Siskel Film Center and Gene Siskel Film Center

Mon Oncle Jacques Tati's 1958 film is a transitional work between the character-centered comedy of Jour de Fete and Mr. Hulot's Holiday and the global perspective of … Gene Siskel Film Center

Mr. Hulot's Holiday The reedy, pipe-smoking Mr. Hulot spends a week's vacation at a slightly battered seaside hotel, where he battles inanimate objects and thinks—long and hard—about flirting … Gene Siskel Film Center

The Necessities of Life In the 1950s, an Inuit hunter suffering from tuberculosis (Natar Ungalaaq) is shanghaied from his home on Baffin Island by paternalistic health authorities and held … Facets Cinematheque

Never Say Never This 2009 drama directed by Wojciech Pacyna focuses on a businesswoman who "secretly" wants to have a child. 102 min. Beverly Arts Center

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian Bloated with visual effects, this sequel to the 2006 hit starts off slowly, reintroducing the original characters: a night guard at the New York Museum … Marcus Gurnee Cinemas and Marcus Orland Park Cinemas

Nine Not to be confused with Shane Acker's dismal animation 9, this is another razzmatazz musical adapted by Rob Marshall (Chicago) from a Broadway show. The … Landmark's Century Centre and Marcus Addison Cinemas

Nocturnal Rounds Edgardo Cozarinsky wrote and directed this 2005 feature depicting a night in the life of Victor, an Argentinian street hustler. 81 min. Instituto Cervantes

Orgasm Inc. Chicago Filmmakers

Planet 51 In this digital animation, a NASA astronaut (visually reminiscent of Toy Story's Buzz Lightyear, and given voice by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) arrives on a … Cinemark Movies 10

Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire With Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey as executive producers, this drama about an obese, illiterate black teen in Harlem practically guarantees some emotional uplift. But … Ford City, Northbrook Public Library, Pipers Alley and Showplace 14 - Galewood Crossings

The Princess and the Frog A welcome return to the Disney tradition of 2-D animation, this lively musical spices up Hans Christian Andersen's "The Frog Prince" by transplanting it to … Chatham 14, Cinemark Movies 10, City North 14, Classic Cinemas Ogden 6, Ford City and Logan

The Pumpkin Eater Jack Clayton directed this 1964 British drama about a woman with six children (Anne Bancroft) who discovers that her husband (Peter Finch) has been cheating … Univ. of Chicago Doc Films

The Quiet Man John Ford's 1952 Oscar winner is a tribute to an Ireland that exists only in the imaginations of songwriters and poets like Ford, a fairy … Univ. of Chicago Doc Films

When in Rome Kristen Bell (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) is badly miscast as a workaholic curator for the Guggenheim Museum whose bad luck with men turns around after she … Century 12 and CineArts 6, Chatham 14, Cicero ShowPlace 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Ford City, Gardens 7-13, Kerasotes ShowPlace ICON Theatre, Marcus Addison Cinemas, Marcus Chicago Heights Cinemas, Marcus Gurnee Cinemas, Marcus Orland Park Cinemas, Niles ShowPlace 12, Norridge, Regal Lake Zurich Theatres 12, River East 21 and Showplace 14 - Galewood Crossings

The Room Music Box

Saint John of Las Vegas Landmark's Century Centre

The Seagull Gene Siskel Film Center

A Serious Man After the unbridled misanthropy of Burn After Reading, Joel and Ethan Coen return to the more affectionate tone of their most endearing films (Fargo, The … Highland Park and the Vic

Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle's master detective became one of the great heroes in genre fiction precisely because he was so freakish: cold and methodical, Holmes was … 600 N. Michigan, Century 12 and CineArts 6, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Gardens 1-6, Kerasotes ShowPlace ICON Theatre, Marcus Addison Cinemas, Marcus Chicago Heights Cinemas, Marcus Gurnee Cinemas, Marcus Orland Park Cinemas, Niles ShowPlace 12, River East 21 and Webster Place 11

Singin' in the Rain One of the shining glories of the American musical, this 1952 feature was fabricated (by screenwriters Betty Comden and Adolph Green) around a collection of … Gene Siskel Film Center

A Single Man Fashion designer Tom Ford makes his directing debut with this haunting adaptation (cowritten with David Scearce) of Christopher Isherwood's groundbreaking 1964 novel about gay love. … Century 12 and CineArts 6, Kerasotes ShowPlace ICON Theatre, Landmark's Century Centre, Marcus Addison Cinemas, Marcus Gurnee Cinemas, Marcus Orland Park Cinemas, Renaissance Place, River East 21 and Wilmette Theatre

The Spy Next Door In middle age Jackie Chan can't keep coasting on boyish charm, as evidenced by this dreadful family comedy that does him no favors with its … Chatham 14, Cicero ShowPlace 14, City North 14, Classic Cinemas Ogden 6, Ford City, Gardens 7-13, Lansing Cinema 8, Logan, Marcus Addison Cinemas, Marcus Gurnee Cinemas, Marcus Orland Park Cinemas, Niles ShowPlace 12 and Showplace 14 - Galewood Crossings

Still Bill Facets Cinematheque

Stromboli Roberto Rossellini's 1949 masterwork. Ingrid Bergman plays a young woman displaced by the war, who marries a young fisherman in order to free herself from … Univ. of Chicago Doc Films

3 AM Orson Welles protege Gary Graver directed this 1975 sexploitation feature. 86 min. Univ. of Chicago Doc Films

Throw Down Your Heart This earnest 2008 doc follows banjo virtuoso Bela Fleck on a sojourn through sub-Saharan Africa, supposedly to explore the roots of his chosen instrument but … Old Town School of Folk Music

Thunder Road The definitive road movie (1958, 92 min.), the well from which all the genre's subsequent blessings flow. Writer-producer Robert Mitchum is a backwoods moonshiner (“Thunder … Facets Cinematheque

The Tooth Fairy In this comedy directed by Michael Lembeck, a minor league hockey player (played by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) must serve as the Tooth Fairy for … Century 12 and CineArts 6, Chatham 14, Cicero ShowPlace 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Ford City, Gardens 7-13, Niles ShowPlace 12, Norridge, Pickwick Theatre, River East 21 and Showplace 14 - Galewood Crossings

Traffic With his previous film, Playtime, Jacques Tati hoped to bid farewell to his character Monsieur Hulot by proving that the capacity to be funny belonged … Gene Siskel Film Center

Tulia, Texas Cassandra Herrman and Kelly Whalen directed this 2008 documentary about the 1999 drug sting in the title town, which resulted in the arrest of 15 … Roosevelt University

The Twilight Saga: New Moon In the supernatural romance Twilight (2008), high school senior Bella (Kristen Stewart) and her 109-year-old vampire boyfriend, Edward (Robert Pattinson), maintained a love affair so … Cinemark Movies 10 and Classic Cinemas Ogden 6

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me The 1992 prequel to David Lynch and Mark Frost's famous but short-lived TV series, this deals with the events leading up to the murder of … Delilah's

Twin Peaks The original 1990 pilot for David Lynch's mystery series, with 15 minutes of extra footage, including a "solution" of sorts. It's a lot better than … Delilah's

2001: A Space Odyssey With Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde, this was the movie that stirred up the “film generation” of the late 60s, spreading the idea that movies … Film Row Cinema, Columbia College

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Jacques Demy's 1964 “film opera,” with music by Michel Legrand, has a reputation for sappiness it doesn't deserve. The chief feature of Demy's direction is … Alliance Francaise

Up in the Air Jason Reitman's smart and polished rom-com about a white-collar hatchet man (George Clooney) has been marinating in Oscar buzz since it premiered at the Toronto … 600 N. Michigan, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Classic Cinemas Ogden 6, Crown Village 18, Davis, Gardens 1-6, Highland Park, Kerasotes ShowPlace ICON Theatre, Kerasotes Theatres Glen 10, Lake, Logan, Marcus Addison Cinemas, Marcus Gurnee Cinemas, Marcus Orland Park Cinemas, Niles ShowPlace 12, Pickwick Theatre, Regal Lake Zurich Theatres 12, River East 21 and Webster Place 11

Ward No. 6 Chekhov's short story about a depressive doctor who winds up joining his own mental patients gets an offbeat millennial update from veteran Russian director Karen … Gene Siskel Film Center

What's Love Got to Do With It A mediocre program of shorts about the ups and downs of relationships. Best of the bunch is Lee Isaac Chung's Love's Philosophy, in which a … Wilmette Theatre and Wilmette Theatre

What's Love Got To Do With It As a truthful account of the life of Tina Turner or as a faithful adaptation of her as-told-to autobiography, I, Tina, this 1993 film can't … Wilmette Theatre and Wilmette Theatre

When the Night Comes/BABE A screening of Bobby Bailey's When the Night Comes, a documentary on malaria, and local filmmaker Alex Beh's BABE, a short romantic comedy about "taking … LaSalle Power Co.

Where the Wild Things Are For anyone who grew up with Maurice Sendak’s magical 1963 picture book, the idea of its slim story being pumped up into a live-action Hollywood … Cinemark Movies 10

The White Ribbon Michael Haneke’s black-and-white period drama, which won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes festival in 2009, has been described as a treatise on the root … Landmark's Century Centre and Renaissance Place

Wild at Heart Barry Gifford's beautifully written picaresque novel about southern lovers on the run, though essentially literary, could have worked as a movie had David Lynch shown … Univ. of Chicago Doc Films

Wired to Win: Surviving the Tour de France This large-format film uses computer animation to examine brain function as two cyclists, Baden Cooke of Australia and Jimmy Casper of France, compete in the … Omnimax Theatre - Museum of Science & Industry

The Young Victoria Smartly scripted by Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park), this historical romance chronicles the early reign of Queen Victoria, played with admirable intelligence and feeling by Emily … Kerasotes Theatres Glen 10, Landmark's Century Centre, Niles ShowPlace 12, Norridge, Renaissance Place and Wilmette Theatre

Youth in Revolt Nerdy nice guy Michael Cera finds the girl of his dreams (Portia Doubleday) while camping with his sluttish mom (Jean Smart) and her boorish boyfriend … New 400 and River East 21

Zim & Co. Pierre Jolivet directed this 2005 feature about Zim, a 20-year-old who needs to get a job in order to avoid prison. The only job he … Alliance Francaise