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2021 MOVIE SHOWTIMES PROGRAM CHANGE 1 DAILY! June 25 - July 12 June 25 - July 12

Shorty after the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd (Tom Hanks) discovers a 10-year-old girl (Helena Zengel) who was abducted by the Kiowa people years before. With her parents long gone and nowhere else for her to go, Kidd Fri. 6/25 3:00 agrees to escort the child to live with her aunt and uncle. "Everyone here is at the top of their craft from the character Sat. 6/26 6:00 actors who populate the ensemble to the two leads at its center to everyone behind the camera, and you can feel Sun. 6/27 6:00 that from first frame to last." -Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com "Words have power, and Kidd - like [director Paul] Greengrass and Hanks - knows how to use them." -Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic "Soulful, steady, stirring." Mon. 6/28 9:00 -David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter (PG-13, 118m)

Starring Kate Winslet as reclusive paleontologist Mary Anning, and Saoirse Ronan as Charlotte, a younger woman entrusted in her care, writer/director Francis Lee's (God's Own Country) period piece "is many things, all of them Fri. 6/25 6:00 remarkable: a queer romance that finds passion in austerity; a biopic that strips away most details of Anning's career Sat. 6/26 3:00 while honoring its spirit; and a portrait of genius thwarted by gender." -Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal "Like Sun. 6/27 9:00 Mary and the sea rocks she tends, Ammonite's hard exterior eventually gives way to something beautiful." -Esther Mon. 6/28 6:00 Zuckerman, Thrillist "A film of earthy, robust sensuality." -Ryan Gilbey, New Statesman (R, 120m)

Winner of many, many awards including 3 Oscars, Chinese-born director Chloe Zhao's film is "a road movie like no other...a modest masterpiece like no other. Beautifully unadorned and heart-in-your-mouth stirring, it's leisurely yet Tue. 6/29 6:00 urgent, with a singular tone that lies somewhere between elegy and hope." -Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal. Wed. 6/30 6:00 "Frances McDormand plays Fern with a quiet ferocity, ultimately delivering a gut-punch of a performance." -Barry Hertz, Globe and Mail "One of the most accomplished films of the year, an emotional tour de force that moves you but Thu. 7/1 2:55 8:55 never imposes or manipulates." -Wenlei Ma, News.com.au (R, 108m)

Based on remarkable true events, Birds Of Prey director Cathy Yan’s masterful feature debut is a bitingly humorous social satire about the trials and tribulations connecting a disparate group of characters in the midst of a nationwide Tue. 6/29 8:50 mystery. "An antidote to China's weightier arthouse output, settling the stomach after too much stolid social realism, Wed. 6/30 2:50 8:50 effervescent as an alka-seltzer." -Jessica Kiang, Variety “Thoroughly enjoyable...arises as the origin chapter of a great storyteller and an opportune mosaic of people in a rapidly transforming superpower.” –Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Thu. 7/1 5:45 Times "Delightfully quirky." -Justin Lowe, Hollywood Reporter (NR, 130m. In Mandarin with subtitles.)

Virtuoso Afro-Cuban-born brothers, violinist Ilmar and pianist Aldo López-Gavilán, live on opposite sides of a geopolitical chasm a half-century wide. Tracking their parallel lives in New York and Havana, their poignant reunion, Fri. 7/2 4:05 6:30 and their momentous first performances together,Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider's documantary offers a nuanced, Sat. 7/3 9:00 often startling view of estranged nations through the lens of music and family. Features performaces recorded live Sun. 7/4 6:30 in the Chautauqua Institution Amphitheater! "I really enjoyed this movie. It's a well-made film... Anyone who loves Mon. 7/5 3:35 music, especially from Cuba, will appreciate it." -Claudia Puig, NPR (NR, 84m)

A tender and sweeping story about what roots us, writer/director Lee Isaac Chung's film follows a Korean-American family that moves to a farm in the Ozarks, in search of their own American Dream. "The details, the child's-eye-view Fri. 7/2 9:00 episodes, the calamities, the tenderly remembered touches, all sing together like a choir." -Peter Bradshaw, Guardian Sat. 7/3 6:00 "Flows through a river of emotions in a natural, understated way that belies the effort that must have gone into their Sun. 7/4 3:35 creation. It's an artistic triumph, as well as a crowd pleaser." -Leonard Maltin, leonardmaltin.com "In creating a filmic Mon. 7/5 6:00 love letter to his own family, Chung has crafted one for us all." -Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times (PG-13, 115m)

Robert (Richard Jenkins) and Theresa (Debra Winger) are con artists who have spent 26 years training their only daughter (Evan Rachel Wood), to swindle, scam and steal at evry turn. During a desperate and hastily conceived Tue. 7/6 9:00 heist, they charm a stranger (Gina Rodriguez) into joining them, only to have their entire world turned upside down. Wed. 7/7 8:30 Director Miranda July (Me and You and Everyone We Know) "...has made her best feature." -Donald Clarke, Irish Times "Funny, poignant and ultimately triumphant." -Ann Hornaday, Washington Post "It's a movie about love, and Thu. 7/8 3:30 6:15 loneliness, and it's funny and bittersweet and beautiful." -Alissa Wilkinson, Vox (R, 104m)

Classic Film Series! Writer/director Preston Sturges screwball comedy from 1941 stars Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda as a mismatched pair who meet on board an ocean liner. "Laugh entertainment of top proportions with its combo of slick situations, spontaneous dialog and a few slapstick falls tossed in for good measure." -Variety Staff Wed. 7/7 6:00 "Romantic comedy perfection" --Nell Minow, Movie Mom "Barbara Stanwyck is the sexiest con woman ever captured on film." -Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal (NR, 97m)

Director/cinematographer Louie Schwartzberg's documentary is a descriptive time-lapse journey into the magical, mysterious and medicinal world of fungi and their power to heal, sustain and contribute to the regeneration of life on Tue. 7/6 6:35 Earth. Narrated by Brie Larson. "One of the year's most mind-blowing, soul-cleansing and yes, immensely entertaining Wed. 7/7 3:40 triumphs!" -Matt Fagerholm, rogerebert.com "Startling in the natural beauty it reveals." -Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal "Eye-opening eye candy." -John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter "Chances are you'll never look at a mushroom Thu. 7/8 9:00 in the same way again." -Leah Pickett, Chicago Reader (NR, 81m)

This is the inspiring true story of Dream Alliance, a race horse bred by small town bartender, Jan Vokes (). With very little money and no experience, Jan convinces her neighbors to chip in their meager earnings to Fri. 7/9 3:15 9:00 help raise the horse and compete with racing elites. "The racetrack tale's uplifting story, heartwarming moments and Sat. 7/10 6:00 beautiful scenery pay off in a big way." -Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times "An unabashed crowd-pleaser directed Sun. 7/11 6:00 by Euros Lyn, earns its smiles and cheers." -Glenn Kenny, New York Times "Its message is really about finding a Mon. 7/12 6:00 reason to get up in the morning--and where's the harm in that?" -Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post (PG, 113m)

Oscar Winner for Best International Feature! "A peak-form Mads Mikkelsen stars in this hilarious and heartbreaking spellbinder as a Copenhagen high school teacher who thinks day drinking might sharpen his faculties." -Peter Travers, Fri. 7/9 6:00 ABC News "[Writer/Director] Thomas Vinterberg is incredibly astute when it comes to how humans behave in Sat. 7/10 9:00 extraordinary circumstances." -Wenlei Ma, News.com.au "A breath of fresh air for anyone who has been starving for Sun. 7/11 3:00 9:00 intelligent entertainment. It's invigorating and completely credible." -Leonard Maltin, leonardmaltin.com "Audaciously Mon. 7/12 9:00 provocative and wickedly funny." -Dominic Corry, Chicago Sun-Times (NR, 117m) COMING SOON: IN THE HEIGHTS HERE TODAY JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH STRAY SHIVA BABY