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• American Pie Another giggly gross-out comedy for teenagers (1999), this one somewhat better than most by virtue of a more satisfying ending. Four horny high school seniors … the Vic
• American Reunion The American Pie franchise returns after a nine-year hiatus to answer such haunting questions as "Can love survive the ravages of time?" and "What household … the Vic
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  The Avengers 3D Marvel Studios unveils its costliest special-effects demo to date; somewhere beneath the nonstop digital explosions lies a story about superheroes fighting an evil demigod from … 600 N. Michigan, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Cicero Showplace 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Ford City, Lake, River East 21, Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings, Showplace ICON and Webster Place 11
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  The Avengers: An IMAX 3D Experience Marvel Studios unveils its costliest special-effects demo to date; somewhere beneath the nonstop digital explosions lies a story about superheroes fighting an evil demigod from … Crown Village 18
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  The Avengers Marvel Studios unveils its costliest special-effects demo to date; somewhere beneath the nonstop digital explosions lies a story about superheroes fighting an evil demigod from … 600 N. Michigan, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Chatham 14, Cicero Showplace 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Davis, Ford City, Lake, Lawndale 10, New 400, River East 21, Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings, Showplace ICON, Webster Place 11 and Wilmette

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• Battle Royale Set in the near future, Kinji Fukasaku's 2000 Japanese feature concerns a government plan to combat rising juvenile delinquency by kidnapping teenagers, sending them to … Univ. of Chicago Doc Films
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  Battleship Here's a tough assignment for any self-respecting director: a Transformers knock-off, board-game adaptation, and military recruitment film all rolled into one. Peter Berg (Hancock, Friday … 600 N. Michigan, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Chatham 14, Cicero Showplace 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Davis, Ford City, Lake, Lawndale 10, River East 21, Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings, Showplace ICON and Webster Place 11
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  Bernie Richard Linklater messes with Texas again, seeking comic inspiration from his home state for the first time since Dazed and Confused (1993). His source material … Century 12 and CineArts 6 and Landmark's Century Centre
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  The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel An assortment of aging Brits (Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Judi Dench, Tom Wilkinson, Penelope Wilton, Celia Imrie) respond to an advertisement for a luxurious retirement … Century 12 and CineArts 6, Crown Village 18, Lake, Landmark's Century Centre, River East 21 and Showplace ICON
• Born to Be Wild 3D A large-format nature documentary, directed by David Lickley and narrated by Morgan Freeman. Navy Pier IMAX
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  Broadway Danny Rose Woody Allen attends to his neglected lovability factor in this tiny, anecdotal comedy about a fifth-rate theatrical agent who gets mixed up with a tough, … Transistor
• Bully Children have always been bullied at school, but they haven't always been bullied so badly that they go home and hang themselves. For this well-meaning … River East 21

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• The Cabin in the Woods Sort of a postmodern Scooby-Doo, this horror flick by Buffy the Vampire Slayer collaborators Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard cuts between a familiar story of … Chatham 14, Logan and Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings
• The Captain Hates the Sea Silent star John Gilbert, whose career collapsed in the talkie era, had his last role in this 1934 comedy from Universal, as a drunken newspaperman … Portage Theater
• Chernobyl Diaries 600 N. Michigan, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Cicero Showplace 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, River East 21 and Webster Place 11
• Chimpanzee A three-year-old chimpanzee is adopted by an older male in this Disney nature documentary. Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield directed, and Tim Allen provides voice-over … Century 12 and CineArts 6, Chatham 14, Crown Village 18, Logan and River East 21
• Films by Mary Helena Clark Short works by the Chicago film and video maker, all dating from 2008 to 2012. Roots and Culture
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  Cleo From 5 to 7 Agnes Varda's 1961 New Wave feature—recounting two hours in the life of a French pop singer (Corinne Marchand) while she waits to learn from her … Northwestern University Block Museum of Art

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  Dark Shadows Tim Burton is like a billionaire fanboy who buys Bela Lugosi's Dracula cape: he has a perfect right to it, but that doesn't mean it … 600 N. Michigan, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Chatham 14, Cicero Showplace 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Davis, Ford City, Lake, Navy Pier IMAX, New 400, River East 21, Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings, Showplace ICON and Webster Place 11
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  Dark Shadows: The IMAX Experience Tim Burton is like a billionaire fanboy who buys Bela Lugosi's Dracula cape: he has a perfect right to it, but that doesn't mean it … Crown Village 18
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  Dead Alive Peter Jackson charts new highs (or lows) in free-flowing gore and nonstop, torrential splatter with this modestly budgeted comic horror extravaganza (1993), originally—and more appropriately—known … Music Box
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  The Dictator Now that Sacha Baron Cohen is too famous to get away with the hit-and-run pranks of Borat or Da Ali G Show, he's just another … 600 N. Michigan, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Chatham 14, Cicero Showplace 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Ford City, Lake, Lawndale 10, River East 21, Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings, Showplace ICON and Webster Place 11

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  The Fantastic Four Created by the legendary low-budget producer Roger Corman, this 1994 screen adaptation of the Marvel Comics series was bought and then shelved by Marvel so … Delilah's
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson's 1971 account of taking drugs and behaving like an asshole in Las Vegas yields a singularly unpleasant 1998 feature from writer-director Terry … Univ. of Chicago Doc Films
• Fellini's Casanova What the world wanted from Fellini's epic account of the famous 18th-century lover (Donald Sutherland) was hardly the dark, disturbingly jaundiced, alienated view of eroticism … Italian Cultural Institute
• First Position Six ballerinas between the ages of 10 and 17 prepare for the Youth America Grand Prix, a competition that awards scholarships to ballet schools around … Landmark's Century Centre
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  The Five-Year Engagement Jason Segel is the ideal rom-com star for women who find Woody Allen too macho. In movies like Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Bad Teacher, and now … 600 N. Michigan, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Crown Village 18, River East 21, Showplace ICON and Webster Place 11

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• Girl in Progress A mother and daughter find themselves at a crossroads in this coming-of-age comedy from director Patricia Riggen. With Eva Mendes, Cierra Ramirez and Patricia Arquette. Century 12 and CineArts 6, Cicero Showplace 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Ford City and Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings
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  God Bless America In Bobcat Goldthwait's blacker-than-black comedy, a potbellied everyman (Joel Murray) learns that he's terminally ill and, assisted by an alienated high schooler (Tara Lynne Barr), … Landmark's Century Centre
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  The Gold Rush Charles Chaplin's best-loved film (1925), with the tramp down-and-out (as usual) in Alaska, where he looks for gold, falls in love with a dance-hall girl … Gene Siskel Film Center

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  The Head Head transplants, etc. Victor Trivas directed this dubbed 1959 German horror item, originally known as Die Nackte und der Satan. With Horst Frank, Karin Kernkew, … Delilah's
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  Headhunters A corporate job recruiter who doubles as an art thief faces a series of life-or-death situations after a rival criminal frames him for murder. This … Landmark's Century Centre
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  Hick A movie-obsessed girl (Chloe Grace Moretz) from middle-of-nowhere Nebraska ditches her drunken parents, dons a halter top and short shorts, and starts hitchhiking to Las … Facets Cinematheque
• The Hunger Games Adapted from the popular young-adult novel, this sci-fi fantasy concerns two dozen teenage gladiators fighting each other to the death as part of a televised … 600 N. Michigan, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Chatham 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Davis, Lawndale 10, River East 21 and Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings
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  Hysteria Hugh Dancy stars as Mortimer Granville, the Victorian doctor who patented the first electromagnetic vibrator, and Maggie Gyllenhaal—in a performance she seems to have modeled … Century 12 and CineArts 6 and Landmark's Century Centre

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  Indie Incubator Film Fest Filmmakers Matt Kubinski and Charles Klein host this two-hour program of independent shorts, trailers, and music videos. the Original Mother's

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• Jiro Dreams of Sushi Like other culinary documentaries (Kings of Pastry, El Bulli: Cooking in Progress, Three Stars), this film by David Gelb combines food porn with hagiography of … Gene Siskel Film Center and Landmark's Century Centre

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  The Kid With a Bike Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne—the French brothers who wrote and directed La Promesse (1996), Rosetta (1999), The Son (2002), L'Enfant (2005), and Lorna's Silence (2008)—often come … Beverly Arts Center

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• The Lorax Hypocrisy on an epic scale, this computer-animated feature turns the Dr. Seuss classic about corporate greed into a multimillion-dollar toy commercial. The movie pays lip … Chatham 14 and the Vic

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  Mansome One can't really call this a documentary, or even a movie for that matter: it looks like any number of the pop-culture gabfests on VH1, … River East 21
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  Men in Black 3 The comedy sci-fi franchise returns after a ten-year hiatus, with the same formula of respectably funny wisecracks and obsessively detailed space monsters. Will Smith and … 600 N. Michigan, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Davis, Lake, Showplace ICON and Webster Place 11
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  Men in Black 3 3D The comedy sci-fi franchise returns after a ten-year hiatus, with the same formula of respectably funny wisecracks and obsessively detailed space monsters. Will Smith and … 600 N. Michigan, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Cicero Showplace 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Ford City, Lake, River East 21, Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings, Showplace ICON and Webster Place 11
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  Men in Black 3: An IMAX 3D Experience The comedy sci-fi franchise returns after a ten-year hiatus, with the same formula of respectably funny wisecracks and obsessively detailed space monsters. Will Smith and … Crown Village 18
• Recommended
  Moneyball Michael Lewis's best seller Moneyball chronicled the remarkable 2002 season of the Oakland Athletics, when general manager Billy Beane, hoping to overcome the payroll gap … Montgomery Ward Park
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  Monsieur Lazhar In this French Canadian feature by Philippe Falardeau, a standard liberal tale about an inspirational teacher gradually deepens into a quiet study of how grief … Wilmette
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  Mother With The Host, South Korean director Bong Joon-ho unpacked the cultural and geopolitical baggage of the atomic monster movie; this follow-up (2009) takes on the … Univ. of Chicago Doc Films

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  The Nanny A little boy begins to believe that his governess is responsible for a series of child murders. Bette Davis, in her late, self-parodying manner, is … Northbrook Public Library
• The New World No important American filmmaker in recent years has divided audiences more than writer-director Terrence Malick (The Thin Red Line), and his fourth feature in 35 … Univ. of Chicago Doc Films
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  Northwestern University Student Film Festival A 90-minute program of award-winning short works by students. For a full schedule see blockmuseum.northwestern.edu. Northwestern University Block Museum of Art

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• Once Upon a Time in Anatolia The title conjures up Sergio Leone, but this Turkish drama by Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Three Monkeys) has more in common with an actual bedtime story, … Univ. of Chicago Doc Films

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• Phantom Week: Love Never Dies Century 12 and CineArts 6, River East 21 and Showplace ICON
• The Pirates! Band of Misfits 3D Peter Lord and Jeff Newitt directed this children's adventure, the latest from Aardman Animations (Chicken Run). Among the voice talent are Hugh Grant, Salma Hayek, … River East 21 and Showplace ICON
• The Pirates! Band of Misfits Peter Lord and Jeff Newitt directed this children's adventure, the latest from Aardman Animations (Chicken Run). Among the voice talent are Hugh Grant, Salma Hayek, … Century 12 and CineArts 6, Chatham 14, Cicero Showplace 14, Davis, Lawndale 10, Logan and Webster Place 11
• Pulse: A Stomp Odyssey National Geographic meets off-Broadway theater in this 2002 Imax movie inspired by Steve McNicholas and Luke Cresswell's long-running dance revue Stomp. Exploiting the 60-foot screen … Navy Pier IMAX

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• Ratatouille Crown Village 18 and River East 21
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  The Raven Edgar Allan Poe invented the detective story, so turning him into the heroic sleuth of a mystery thriller makes perfect sense, and the much-debated circumstances … Chatham 14
• Rock 'n' Roll High School P.J. Soles and the Ramones lead off in this amiable, rambunctious New World production (1979), aimed ostensibly at the teen trade but more obliquely and … Delilah's

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  Safe Through a string of plot developments too convoluted to recount here, former cop Jason Statham takes a brainy Chinese girl under his wing and goes … Chatham 14, Cicero Showplace 14, Ford City, Logan, River East 21 and Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings
• Salmon Fishing in the Yemen Lasse Hallstrom, director of such middlebrow touchstones as Chocolat (2000) and The Cider House Rules (1999), brings his art-house honey to this limp adaptation of … Logan
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  The Scarlet Empress Josef von Sternberg's 1934 film turns the legend of Catherine the Great into a study of sexuality sadistically repressed and reborn as politics, thus anticipating … Univ. of Chicago Doc Films
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  A Separation A tale of two families linked by tragedy, this extraordinary drama by Iranian writer-director Asghar Farhadi (Fireworks Wednesday) is hugely compelling on a moral and … Gene Siskel Film Center
• The Shining If God can be a big black slab from outer space, why can't the devil be a bartender named Lloyd? Stanley Kubrick's 1980 horror movie … Landmark's Century Centre
• Sid and Nancy For all the furious acting out on view, Alex Cox's 1986 feature about rock-scene burnouts Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen (Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb) … Delilah's
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  Sound of My Voice In the wake of Martha Marcy May Marlene, Fox Searchlight releases another gimmicky independent drama about a cult, this one with sci-fi overtones and a … Century 12 and CineArts 6 and Landmark's Century Centre
• Still Standing A documentary about a man who regained his mobility after being paralyzed from the neck down. Lawndale 10
• The Story of Adele H The critics loved to honor the late Francois Truffaut for his glowingly humanistic films, yet as time goes by it becomes more and more clear … Alliance Francaise

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• Thief The 1981 feature debut of Michael Mann is firmly aligned along the neo-macho axis of Scorsese, Cimino, and Schrader; it's an attempt to parlay a … Music Box
• Think Like a Man Comedian Steve Harvey—whose dating self-help book Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man inspired this ensemble rom-com—hangs over the action like a deity, appearing … 600 N. Michigan, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Chatham 14, Cicero Showplace 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Ford City, Lawndale 10, New 400, River East 21, Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings and Showplace ICON
• The Three Stooges For years the Three Stooges begged Columbia Pictures to give them a feature, to no avail. So now that Peter and Bobby Farrelly have brought … Chatham 14, Ford City and Lawndale 10
• To the Arctic 3D Greg MacGillivray directed this large-format documentary about a polar bear and its seven-month-old cubs. Meryl Streep narrates. Navy Pier IMAX
• Toy Story 3 In this third installment of the Pixar animation franchise, the toys wind up in a nursery after their owner goes to college. Lee Unrich directed; … Crown Village 18 and River East 21
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  The Tree of Life A masterpiece, this fifth feature by Terrence Malick manages to reconcile the emotional force of his 70s classics, Badlands and Days of Heaven, with the … Univ. of Chicago Doc Films

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• Up Crown Village 18 and River East 21

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• WALL-E Crown Village 18 and River East 21
• Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale An indigenous tribe defend themselves from oppressive colonialists. Ford City
• Week-end Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 imagining of the twilight of the Western world, in which bourgeois society is stalled in an endless traffic jam, revolutionaries pass their … Univ. of Chicago Doc Films
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  What to Expect When You're Expecting Woody Allen once turned a self-help book into a killer comedy—Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex . . . but Were Afraid to … 600 N. Michigan, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Chatham 14, Cicero Showplace 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Ford City, Lake, Lawndale 10, New 400, River East 21, Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings, Showplace ICON and Webster Place 11
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  Where Do We Go Now? From its opening image—women clad in black, marching to a graveyard—this Lebanese feature by Nadine Labaki dwells on the crushing weight of grief, yet it … Century 12 and CineArts 6
• Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the Seventh Day In this sequel to T.D. Jakes's Woman, Thou Art Loosed (1999), a married couple's darkest secrets are revealed after their six-year-old daughter is kidnapped. Neema … Ford City