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  The Adventure of Pinocchio Luigi Comencini's highly praised live-action version (1971) of the Carlo Collodi fantasy, with Nino Manfredi, Gina Lollobrigida, Andrea Balestri, and Vittorio De Sica. Italian Cultural Institute
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  All About Eve The catfight of the century, with smiling understudy Anne Baxter flashing deadly epigrams at aging Broadway star Bette Davis (1950). Much of the fun of … Northbrook Public Library
• 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 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 and Webster Place 11

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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, Landmark's Century Centre and River East 21
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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, Logan, 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 (1984) about a fifth-rate theatrical agent who gets mixed up with a … 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 … Chatham 14

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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 … Logan
• Chernobyl Diaries Paranormal Activity creator Oren Peli wrote the screenplay for this horror flick about six tourists who explore the not-quite-abandoned town of Pripyat, former home of … 600 N. Michigan, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Chatham 14, Cicero Showplace 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Ford City, River East 21, Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings, Showplace ICON 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 … Chatham 14
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  Chinese Take-Away In the opening scene of this Argentinean comedy, a cow drops out of the sky and kills a young woman on a rowboat just as … Gene Siskel Film Center

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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, 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 … Navy Pier IMAX
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  Dazed and Confused Belonging to an international trend that might be called the plotless examination of bored teenagers, Richard Linklater's third feature (1993) begins right after the end … Univ. of Chicago Doc Films
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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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• 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 … the Vic
• Footnote Israel entered this 2011 family drama in the Academy Awards, and one might twit the movie's safe, middlebrow, apolitical story if the domestic nominees weren't … Beverly Arts Center
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  For Greater Glory Cicero Showplace 14, Crown Village 18 and River East 21

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  Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life French pop star Serge Gainsbourg was as much iconoclast as icon, so it's fitting that this fanciful biopic is both affectionate and irreverent. Writer-director Joann … Transistor
• 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. Cicero Showplace 14, Crown Village 18, Ford City and Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings
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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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• H.H. Holmes: America's First Serial Killer Readers of Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City already know about Holmes, the "Monster of 63rd Street" whose Englewood mansion concealed numerous torture … Portage Theater
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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 … Crown Village 18, Lawndale 10, Logan and River East 21
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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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• The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus What a troublesome filmmaker Terry Gilliam is: his vision is unique, yet the same feverish imagination that makes his movies so engrossing threatens constantly to … Univ. of Chicago Doc Films
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  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 … Univ. of Chicago Doc Films
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  The Intouchables Century 12 and CineArts 6

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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
• Jurassic Park Cloned prehistoric animals run riot in a contemporary theme park in Steven Spielberg's 1993 fantasy adventure, which is less scary than Jaws or Raiders of … Landmark's Century Centre

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• Lovely Ladies of Laughter Wilmette
• Lyrics That Last - Live Wilmette

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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, 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 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
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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 … Music Box and Wilmette
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  Moonrise Kingdom Century 12 and CineArts 6

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• Paris Blues Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier as two jazz musicians romancing their way through Paris. An early (1961) black-and-white alignment from Martin Ritt (Sounder, Murphy's Romance), … Northwestern University Block Museum of Art
• 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, … Logan
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  Poetry A shy old woman—shy enough and old enough that her fine, flowery outfits have become integral to her sense of self—discovers that her callow grandson … Univ. of Chicago Doc Films
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  Polisse French actress Maiwenn (High Tension) cowrote and directed this lively ensemble drama about a close-knit team of police officers in Paris’s Child Protection Unit. The … Landmark's Century Centre

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• Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog Naturalistic pet movies are a popular genre in Japan, though they rarely win theatrical distribution in the U.S. This 2004 family drama follows a Labrador … Music Box and Wilmette

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  Ratatouille Brad Bird's second collaboration with Pixar (2007) is more ambitious and meditative than his Oscar-winning The Incredibles. “Anyone can cook” is just one of the … Crown Village 18 and River East 21

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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
• 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 … Gene Siskel Film Center
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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 and Univ. of Chicago Doc Films
• 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
• Snow White & the Huntsman Century 12 and CineArts 6, Cicero Showplace 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Davis, Ford City, Lake, River East 21, Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings, Showplace ICON and Webster Place 11

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• 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 … Chatham 14, Cicero Showplace 14, Ford City, Lawndale 10, River East 21, Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings and Showplace ICON
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  35 Shots of Rum A handsome black widower (Alex Descas) and his lovely college-age daughter (Mati Diop) inhabit a self-contained world of tranquil domesticity and affection in a gray … Northwestern University Block Museum of Art
• 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 … Lawndale 10 and Logan
• 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
• 21 Jump Street Loosely based on the TV series, this lowbrow comedy looks like it was shot in about a week, which would explain why some jokes have … the Vic

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  Up Pixar hops on the 3-D animation juggernaut with this 2009 vivid adventure fantasy. The story follows a pint-size wannabe aviator and his tomboy best pal … Crown Village 18 and River East 21

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  WALL-E Finding Nemo director Andrew Stanton tops himself with this adorably loopy Pixar animation (2008) that sends up consumerism, musicals, Apple computers, and 2001: A Space … Crown Village 18 and River East 21
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  Wallander: The Revenge Henning Mankell's fictional cop Kurt Wallander has appeared in dozens of novels, theatrical features, and TV movies in Sweden; this 2009 police procedural, made for … Music Box
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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
• Wild River The Tennessee branch of the Mississippi, that is, where TVA agent Montgomery Clift is faced with the job of evicting a matriarch (Jo Van Fleet) … Portage Theater