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  42 Like many Hollywood sports movies, this Jackie Robinson biopic seems to be pitched at high schoolers, but writer-director Brian Helgeland still manages a pretty absorbing … Century 12 and CineArts 6, Chatham 14, Crown Village 18, Ford City, Lawndale 10, River East 21, Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings, Showplace ICON and Webster Place 11

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  Almost in Love Privileged thirtysomethings whine about their romantic problems in this indie rom-com from writer-director Sam Neave. It displays greater formal ambition than most such exercises, transpiring … Gene Siskel Film Center
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• The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye This edgy documentary manages to tell an affecting love story even as it ventures into the cultish, transgressive world of underground music. Musician and performance … Studio BE Theatre
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  Beneath the Blindfold This activist documentary centers on four victims of torture who currently live in the United States: a former child soldier in Liberia's civil war, a … Hyde Park Art Center
• The Big Wedding A long-divorced couple (Robert DeNiro, Diane Keaton) pretend to be married to help out their adopted son when his biological mother, a staunch Catholic, attends … Crown Village 18 and River East 21
• Black Radical Imagination Erin Christovale and Amir George curated this program of short futuristic works by black filmmakers. Black Cinema House
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  Bless Their Little Hearts Scripted and photographed by Charles Burnett and directed by his former film-school classmate Billy Woodberry, this wonderful neorealist look at a working-class black family in … Univ. of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts
• Breakfast at Tiffany's Blake Edwards's 1961 film of Truman Capote's novel is one of his best-known efforts but far from his best—it's one of the few that he … Univ. of Chicago Doc Films
• The Breakfast Club John Hughes's 1985 film seems meant to explain 80s youngsters to yesterday's youth, and comes to the comforting conclusion that they're just as alienated, idealistic, … Logan

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• Cannibal Holocaust A film crew shooting a documentary on cannibalism disappears in the South American jungle, and film footage, recovered later, shows what happened. Ruggero Deodato directed … Music Box
• Cat People Paul Schrader's hammering, art-porno remake of Jacques Tourneur's deft little thriller of 1942. Nastassia Kinski is the cat person, a European waif who moves in … Delilah's
• Cinco de Mayo: The Battle Rafael Lara directed this historical drama about Mexico's Battle of Puebla. Cicero Showplace 14 and Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings
• Cleopatra Century 12 and CineArts 6, River East 21 and Webster Place 11
• The Company You Keep Robert Redford directed and stars in this boomer drama about the Weather Underground, impressive for its cast of aging talents (Julie Christie, Susan Sarandon, Nick … Wilmette
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  Compensation Shot on the cheap in Evanston and Chicago, this 1999 drama by Zeinabu Irene Davis manages to surmount its budget limitations through the beauty and … Northwestern University Block Museum of Art
• The Croods 3D Kirk De Micco and Chris Sanders directed this animated feature about a prehistoric family whose misadventures inadvertently lead to the invention of fire, the wheel, … River East 21
• The Croods Kirk De Micco and Chris Sanders directed this animated feature about a prehistoric family whose misadventures inadvertently lead to the invention of fire, the wheel, … Chatham 14, Cicero Showplace 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Ford City, Lawndale 10, Logan and Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings

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  Daughters of the Dust Julie Dash's first feature (1991), set in the islands along the south Atlantic coast of the U.S. sometime around 1900. A group of black women, … Univ. of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts
• Disconnect This dour would-be art movie posits that social media might be alienating people from each other rather than bringing them together. (Spoiler alert: the title … Century 12 and CineArts 6 and Webster Place 11
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  Films by Stephen Dwoskin Four features by by Stephen Dwoskin, whose films "scrutinize the body and its discontents, rooted partly in his long struggle with polio." Screening are his … Museum of Contemporary Art

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• Epic Cicero Showplace 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Ford City, River East 21, Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings and Webster Place 11
• Epic 3D Cicero Showplace 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Ford City, River East 21, Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings and Webster Place 11
• Escape From Planet Earth Brendan Fraser, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Rob Cordry lend their voices to this animated comedy about an adventurous alien that finds himself stranded among humans. … River East 21
• Evil Dead The cabin-in-the-woods setting of Sam Raimi's cult classic The Evil Dead (1981) has been so widely copied that, for this remake, the screenwriters (among them … Ford City and Logan

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• Fast & Furious 6 600 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 Giant Michael Klier created this 1983 essay, drawing all his footage from West German surveillance cameras. Nightingale
• Giselle - Royal Ballet, London Wilmette
• Go Goa Gone River East 21
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  The Great Gatsby 3D The Great Gatsby will always be an unfilmable novel, because most of its drama resides in the space between the characters' snappy dialogue and their … 600 N. Michigan, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Chatham 14, Cicero Showplace 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Ford City, Harper Theater, Lake, New 400, River East 21, Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings, Showplace ICON and Webster Place 11
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  The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby will always be an unfilmable novel, because most of its drama resides in the space between the characters' snappy dialogue and their … 600 N. Michigan, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Chatham 14, Cicero Showplace 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Davis, Ford City, Harper Theater, Lake, New 400, River East 21, Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings, Showplace ICON and Webster Place 11
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  Gun Crazy One of the most distinguished works of art to emerge from the B movie swamp, Joseph H. Lewis's 1949 film is a proto-Bonnie and Clyde … Univ. of Chicago Doc Films

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• The Hangover Part III 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
• Hook Steven Spielberg's post-Freudian, revisionist sequel (1994) to J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, with Wendy now 80 years old (played by Maggie Smith) and Peter (Robin Williams) … Patio Theater
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  How Much Does the Trojan Horse Weigh? At 40, Zosia (Ilona Ostrowska) has a happy second marriage, a well-adjusted daughter, a good career, and a comfortable home in Warsaw. But as she … Chicago Cultural Center
• How Much Does the Trojan Horse Weigh? Chicago Cultural Center

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  The Iceman Michael Shannon stars Richard Kuklinski, the New Jersey hit man believed to have killed more than 100 people in the decades leading up to his … Century 12 and CineArts 6, Landmark's Century Centre and River East 21
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  In the House A stuffy high school teacher (Fabrice Luchini) latches onto a talented young writing student (Ernst Umhauer) and waits with bated breath for the boy's journal … Landmark's Century Centre
• Iron Man 3 None of the Iron Man movies has been as good as The Dark Knight (2008), but their mix of spectacle and droll comedy goes down … 600 N. Michigan, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Chatham 14, Cicero Showplace 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Davis, Ford City, Harper Theater, Lake, Lawndale 10, New 400, River East 21, Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings, Showplace ICON and Webster Place 11
• Iron Man 3 3D None of the Iron Man movies has been as good as The Dark Knight (2008), but their mix of spectacle and droll comedy goes down … 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

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• Jaws It broke box-office records in 1975, and probably posted an aesthetic landmark, too—in proving that actors and characters were completely redundant in the shopping center … Patio Theater

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• Kartemquin Spring Showcase The documentary outfit Kartemquin Films presents preview clips of forthcoming projects; among the video makers are Judith Helfand, Xan Aranda, Usama Alshaibi, and Kirsten Kelly … Gene Siskel Film Center
• Kon-Tiki A longtime pet project for producer Jeremy Thomas (who's collaborated with Nicolas Roeg, Bernardo Bertolucci, and David Cronenberg), this British-Norwegian coproduction recounts the 1947 voyage … Landmark's Century Centre

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  L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema Short works by Haile Gerima, Shirikiana Aina, Melvonna Ballenger, and Carroll Parrott Blue and Kristy H.A. Kang, screening as part of retrospective on the Afro-centric … Univ. of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts
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  The Last Bolshevik One of the major essays of Chris Marker—which automatically makes this one of the key works of our time—this remarkable 1993 video is provisionally about … Univ. of Chicago Doc Films
• The Last Reef: Cities Beneath the Sea 3D Navy Pier IMAX
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  Like Someone in Love The critical shorthand for a film like this is "tragicomic," but more precisely one might say that Iranian writer-director Abbas Kiarostami indulges in comic complications … Univ. of Chicago Doc Films
• Love Is All You Need Director Susanne Bier and screenwriter Anders Thomas Jensen take a break from piercing ethical drama (Open Hearts, Brothers, After the Wedding, In a Better World) … Century 12 and CineArts 6 and Landmark's Century Centre

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• Minamata: The Victims and Their World Directed by Tsuchimoto Noriaki, this 1971 documentary investigates the mercury poisoning of the title community through corporate pollution. Univ. of Chicago Doc Films
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  Mud After the impressive Take Shelter, writer-director Jeff Nichols takes on the sort of swampy southern gothic that David Gordon Green handled so masterfully in Undertow … 600 N. Michigan, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Crown Village 18, Davis, Logan and Webster Place 11

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• No As Chile prepares for the October 1988 plebiscite over the continued presidency of Augusto Pinochet, a slick ad man (Gael Garcia Bernal) shakes up the … Beverly Arts Center and Tivoli
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  Nobody's Perfect German director and thalidomide victim Niko von Glasow recruits 11 middle-aged fellow sufferers to exhibit their deformed—in some cases limbless—bodies for a nude calendar. That … Univ. of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts

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• Oblivion In the late 21st century, after space invaders have forced mankind to push the button, a lonely security guard (Tom Cruise) patrols an evacuated earth … Century 12 and CineArts 6, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Ford City, Lawndale 10, Logan, Patio Theater, River East 21, Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings, Showplace ICON and Webster Place 11
• Olympus Has Fallen North Korean terrorists storm the White House and take the President hostage. This ludicrous actioner strives to be as loud, violent, and patriotic as possible; … the Vic

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• Pain & Gain Michael Bay tries his hand at satire, targeting the sort of hollow excess most of his movies epitomize. Based on true events, it tells the … 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, Showplace ICON and Webster Place 11
• The Painting Directed by Jean-François Laguionie, this 2011 children's animation centers on a painting whose characters magically come to life. Alliance Francaise
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  The Passion After a leak from his apartment damages a 16th-century religious fresco, a TV director agrees to stage a Good Friday celebration to retire the debt. … Italian Cultural Institute
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  Peeples A sweet-natured underachiever (Craig Robinson) follows his ambitious lawyer girlfriend (Kerry Washington) to her family's resort home in the hope of winning over her father … 600 N. Michigan, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Chatham 14, Cicero Showplace 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Ford City, Harper Theater, Lake, Lawndale 10, New 400, River East 21, Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings and Showplace ICON
• Pieta After the relatively mellow Airirang and Amen (both 2011), Korean shock auteur Kim Ki-duk returns to form with this brutal, unyielding exploitation film. Complicated and … Facets Cinematheque
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  The Place Beyond the Pines A motorcycle stunt rider (Ryan Gosling) discovers that the woman he loved and left a year earlier (Eva Mendes) has given birth to a son … Landmark's Century Centre and Logan
• Prehistoric Women A tawdry little cult item (1950) involving prehistoric table turning and role reversal, with the usual cast of pre-Cro-Magnon starlets capturing hirsute hunks and turning … Delilah's

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• Quartet The premise may sound insufferable, but this light comedy about a nursing home for retired classical musicians isn't half-bad. Ronald Harwood's script (adapted from his … Gene Siskel Film Center

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  The Reluctant Fundamentalist Mira Nair is so effective and important as a chronicler of the South Asian experience in America (Mississippi Masala, The Namesake) that one hates to … Landmark's Century Centre
• Renoir If you love the paintings of Auguste Renoir or the films of his son Jean, there's a good chance you'll sit through this slow-moving prestige … Century 12 and CineArts 6
• The Revolutionary Optimists Chicago Cultural Center
• 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
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show This 1975 film version of the bisexual-chic rock musical tries its damnedest to be outrageous, but finally has a hard time justifying its R rating. … Music Box
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  Rope Alfred Hitchcock's legendary 1948 experiment with a continuous-take cinema. The entire 80-minute film consists of only 10 or 12 shots, with the shifting emphases of … Northbrook Public Library
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  Rosemary's Baby The treacherous-mate theme that has been a staple of "women's pictures" since Gaslight gets its ultimate, most agonizing development in this 1968 story about a … Univ. of Chicago Doc Films

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  Safety Last The most famous image of silent comedy—Harold Lloyd hanging from the hands of a clock, 12 stories above the streets of Los Angeles—represents only one … Music Box
• The Sapphires Aboriginal sisters form a girl group and tour Vietnam in this genial, entertaining, cliché-ridden showbiz story from Australia. After hearing the girls sing in a … Century 12 and CineArts 6
• Scary Movie V Contemporary horror movies are spoofed in this comedy directed by Malcolm D. Lee. With Charlie Sheen, Ashley Tisdale, and Simon Rex. Chatham 14, Cicero Showplace 14, Ford City, Lawndale 10 and the Vic
• Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's 600 N. Michigan
• Serenity Landmark's Century Centre
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  Serenity TV powerhouse Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) makes a rousing feature-directing debut, exploiting the cult status of his short-lived series Firefly to continue it … Landmark's Century Centre
• Side Effects This neatly executed mystery is just the sort of thing Hollywood craves from Steven Soderbergh: genre entertainment as cool, clean, and impersonal as a Formica … Univ. of Chicago Doc Films
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  Sightseers With Down Terrace (2009), Kill List (2011), and now this gory black comedy, British director Ben Wheatley has carved out a niche all his own, … Music Box
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  Silver Linings Playbook Following a detour into heavy drama with The Fighter, David O. Russell returns to his distinctive brand of neurotic screwball comedy, and like his early … the Vic
• The Song Remains the Same Peter Clifton and Joe Massot directed this frankly titled Led Zeppelin rockumentary, filmed in 1973 at Madison Square Garden and released three years later. 137 … Univ. of Chicago Doc Films
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  Star Trek Into Darkness The starship Enterprise blasts off again, going boldly where it's gone innumerable times before. As in the successful 2009 reboot, the blockbuster machinery overwhelms everything … 600 N. Michigan, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Chatham 14, Cicero Showplace 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Davis, Ford City, Harper Theater, Lake, Lawndale 10, New 400, River East 21, Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings, Showplace ICON and Webster Place 11
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  Star Trek Into Darkness 3D The starship Enterprise blasts off again, going boldly where it's gone innumerable times before. As in the successful 2009 reboot, the blockbuster machinery overwhelms everything … 600 N. Michigan, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Chatham 14, Cicero Showplace 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Ford City, Harper Theater, Lake, New 400, River East 21, Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings, Showplace ICON and Webster Place 11
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  Star Trek Into Darkness: An IMAX 3D Experience The starship Enterprise blasts off again, going boldly where it's gone innumerable times before. As in the successful 2009 reboot, the blockbuster machinery overwhelms everything … Crown Village 18 and Navy Pier IMAX

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  Taxi Driver Martin Scorsese put all the city dweller's irrational, guilty fears into this 1976 story of a New York taxi driver (Robert De Niro) on a … Univ. of Chicago Doc Films
• This Is Spinal Tap Rob Reiner's 1984 satire on rock documentaries has the deadly verisimilitude of a Harvard Lampoon magazine parody: every cliche is in place, from the grainy … Univ. of Chicago Doc Films
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  The Trial Though debatable as an adaptation of the Franz Kafka novel, Orson Welles's nightmarish, labyrinthine comedy of 1962—shot mainly in Paris's abandoned Gare d'Orsay and various … Music Box
• Tyler Perry's Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor An ambitious businesswoman is lured into a steamy affair in this drama directed by Tyler Perry. With Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Lance Gross, and Kim Kardashian. Chatham 14 and Lawndale 10

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• When I Walk Jason DaSilva documents his first six years with multiple sclerosis, charting his struggle to keep working as his body deteriorates. This feels less like a … Gene Siskel Film Center
• White Frog In this heavy-handed indie drama a teenager with Asperger syndrome comes of age after the death of his older brother, who concealed his homosexuality. I … Gene Siskel Film Center
• Woyzeck Werner Herzog, at his weakest, directs a 1979 adaptation of Georg Büchner's prescient, premodern modernist play of 1836. Herzog has distorted the text, about a … Univ. of Chicago Doc Films

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• You Should Go Fred Schmidt-Arenales directed this indie drama that "follows a day in the life of four twenty somethings as their relationships knot together in the aftermath … Univ. of Chicago Doc Films

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• Zardoz Probably John Boorman's most underrated film—an impossibly ambitious and pretentious but also highly inventive, provocative, and visually striking SF adventure with metaphysical trimmings (1974). Set … Portage Theater
• Zoolander The premise of this contemptible comedy—the fashion industry conspires to remove world leaders who oppose child labor—isn't absurd enough to be funny. Director Ben Stiller, … Landmark's Century Centre