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2018 MOVIE PROGRAM July 10 2018 MOVIE SHOWTIMES PROGRAM CHANGE 2 DAILY! July 10 - July 30 July 10 - July 30 Greta Gerwig reveals herself to be a bold new cinematic voice with her directorial debut, excavating both the humor Tue. 7/10 6:30 and pathos in the turbulent bond between a mother and her teenage daughter. "One of the best films of the year. In Wed. 7/11 4:00 9:00 telling her own coming of age story, Gerwig proves herself a blazing talent...Totally irresistible." -Peter Travers, Rolling Stone "Unique and original and fresh and wonderful." -Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times (R, 93m) Thu. 7/12 6:30 Thomas Riedelsheimer returns 16 years after Rivers and Tides to the life and work of artist Andy Goldsworthy as Tue. 7/10 4:00 9:00 he explores the world and himself through ephemeral and permanent works on the landscape, environment and his Wed. 7/11 6:30 own body. "A study in seeing, in subordinating one's self to the elements, in creating with nature rather than from it." -Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice "A feast. Peel your orbs and dig in!" -Lisa Jensen, Good Times S.C. (PG, 97m) Thu. 7/12 4:00 9:00 Chadwick Boseman stars as T'Challa,who returns home to the isolated, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to take his place as king. "Transcends its comic-book origins, achieving a mythic grandeur that's nothing short Fri. 7/13 6:00 of exhilarating." -Calvin Wilson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Has a beating heart, and a big one; it's not just sincere, but Sat. 7/14 6:00 that rarest of birds in the jungle of mainstream entertainment, a heartfelt epic." -Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal Sun. 7/15 2:45 6:00 "One of the best superhero movies of the century." -Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times "Terrifically entertaining." Mon. 7/16 6:00 -Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic "Black Panther matters." -Stephen Whitty, New York Daily News (PG-13,135m) Based on Naomi Alderman's book, Oscar winning writer/director Sebastián Lelio's film follows Ronit (Rachel Weisz) Fri. 7/13 3:05 9:15 as she returns to the community that shunned her decades earlier for an attraction to a childhood friend Esti (Rachel Sat. 7/14 9:15 McAdams). Once back, their passions reignite as they explore the boundaries of faith and sexuality. "A riveting story Sun. 7/15 9:15 about love, happiness and difficult choices. Flawless performances from Weisz and McAdams." -Rafer Guzman, Newsday "Quietly profound." -Leah Greenblatt, Ent. Weekly (R, 114m) Mon. 7/16 3:05 9:15 Moscow, 1953: when tyrannical dictator Joseph Stalin drops dead, his parasitic cronies square off in a power struggle to become the next Soviet leader. This bitingly funny takedown of bureaucratic dysfunction is performed to the hilt by Tue. 7/17 3:15 9:00 a ensemble cast including Steve Buscemi as Nikita Khrushchev and Jeffrey Tambor as Georgy Malenkov. [Director] Wed. 7/18 6:00 "Armando Iannucci's (Veep, In the Loop) hilarious, profane satire about politburos pole-positioning for power could Thu. 7/19 3:15 9:00 not be more timely. It's the funniest, fiercest comedy of the year." -Peter Travers, Rolling Stone (R, 107m) When fifteen-year-old Charley (Charlie Plummer) moves to Portland with his father he lands a job at a local racetrack caring for an aging horse named Lean On Pete. He finds acceptance and camaraderie with the horse's owner (Steve Tue. 7/17 6:00 Buscemi) and jockey (Chloë Sevigny) until he discovers that Pete is bound for slaughter, prompting him to take Wed. 7/18 3:00 8:45 extreme measures to spare his new friend's life. "What sustains the movie—and Charley, and the audience—is its faith in the essential innocence of people." -Ty Burr, Boston Globe "Demands a different kind of attention from moviegoers. Thu. 7/19 6:00 But the rewards are worth it." -Calvin Wilson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch (R, 121m) Everyone deserves a great love story. But for seventeen-year-old Simon Spier (Nick Robinson) it's a little more complicated: he's yet to tell his family or friends he's gay and he doesn't actually know the identity of the anonymous Fri. 7/20 6:00 classmate he's fallen for online. Resolving both issues proves hilarious, terrifying and life-changing. [Director] "Greg Sat. 7/21 9:00 Berlanti's groundbreaking gay romcom is an exuberant gift, a John Hughes movie for audiences who just got woke Sun. 7/22 3:15 6:00 and the first mainstream studio release to put a closeted teen front and center." -Peter Travers, Rolling Stone "An Mon. 7/23 6:00 unexpected delight in more ways than one." -Rex Reed, New York Observer (PG-13, 109m) Writer/director Bart Layton tells the unbelievable but true story of four young men who brazenly attempt to execute Fri. 7/20 3:00 8:45 one of the most audacious art heists in US history. Determined to live lives that are out of the ordinary, they formulate a Sat. 7/21 6:00 daring plan for the perfect robbery, only to discover that the plan has taken on a life of its own. "A crackerjack real-life Sun. 7/22 8:45 heist thriller." -Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter "Fascinating, funny and, in the end, deep." -Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post "One of the year's smartest, most captivating films" -Adam Graham, Detroit News (R, 120m) Mon. 7/23 3:00 8:45 Frank (Nick Offerman), a widower and aging Brooklyn hipster, starts a band with his teenage daughter Sam (Kiersey Clemons) just before she leaves home to attend college in California. When a song of theirs finds success online, it Tue. 7/24 3:30 8:45 complicates Frank's attempts to let go of his dreams of stardom, and allow his daughter to find her own path in life. Wed. 7/25 6:10 "Frank and Sam make beautiful music together. No, that's not a metaphor; it's an accurate description that's central to what makes Hearts Beat Loud such an engaging endeavor." -Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times "A truly sweet, funny, Thu. 7/26 3:30 8:45 and downright likable comedy." -Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com (PG-13, 97m) At the age of 84, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has developed a breathtaking legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon. But without a definitive Ginsburg biography, the unique personal Tue. 7/24 6:10 journey of this diminutive, quiet warrior's rise to the nation's highest court has been largely unknown, even to some Wed. 7/25 3:30 8:45 of her biggest fans. "Finding reciprocity—in the eyes of the law, your partner, your colleagues—is the essence of this Thu. 7/26 6:10 documentary, one that comes at a moment that desperately lacks it." -Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out (PG, 96m) Lee and Evelyn (John Krasinki, Emily Blunt) and their children are forced to navigate their lives in silence after mysterious creatures that hunt by sound threaten their survival. "A bold experiment in fear with a triumphant payoff. Fri. 7/27 3:15 9:00 It will chill you to the bone, and the quieter it gets, the more noise it makes." -Adam Graham, Detroit News "An Sat. 7/28 9:00 undoubtedly taxing affair for the nerves; fortunately, it's also a deeply affecting one." -David Sims, The Atlantic [Director] Sun. 7/29 9:15 John "Krasinski has made one of the most poetic horror movies of recent years. Its sound design alone is glorious, Mon. 7/30 3:15 9:00 locating the infinite gradations in that thing we so casually call silence." -Stephanie Zacharek, TIME (PG-13, 90m) Special Event! Produced by Robert Redford, Terrence Malick, and Nick Offerman, this documentary by Laura Dunn (The Unforeseen), presents a cinematic portrait of the changing landscapes and shifting values of rural America in the era of industrial agriculture, as seen through the mind’s eye of writer, farmer, and activist, Wendell Berry. In Sun. 7/29 2:30 the spirit of his agrarian philosophy, Berry's home, Henry County, emerges as a character in the film—a place and a A Portrait of Wendell Berry landscape that is deeply interdependent with the people that inhabit it. Presented in co-operation with The Sustainable Forestry Foundation and the The Chautauqua Watershed Conservancy. (NR, 82m. Discussion to follow.) Han Solo (Alden Ehrenreich) meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Fri. 7/27 5:45 Lando Calrissian (Donald Glover), in a journey that will set the course of one of the Star Wars saga's most unlikely Sat. 7/28 5:45 heroes. Also stars, Emilia Clarke, Thandie Newton and Woody Harrelson. "Clever, light entertainment that shoots Sun. 7/29 6:00 ahead as if it was launched from an intergalactic slingshot." -Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune "The most lighthearted and fun film so far in the expanded Star Wars universe." -Mark Daniell, Toronto Sun (PG-13, 135m) Mon. 7/30 5:45 COMING SOON: THE SHAPE OF WATER WON'T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? INCREDIBLES 2 LEAVE NO TRACE .
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