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Des Moines' nonprofit community art house cinema.
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Thursday is Garbage Day! 🗑️ Join us for our first holiday Midnights@10 movie, SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT PART 2. 🪓 In this 80s slasher sequel, Ricky is released from a mental hospital, taking with him the memory of his brother death, and embarks on a journey of relentless revenge.

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December 8, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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MARTY SUPREME. Tickets on sale NOW! First showings on December 24.

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December 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG has rolled into the Varsity for a limited time! Witness this new expertly shot film of Stephen Sondheim’s Tony-Winning musical revival, giving you a rare front-row seat to the dazzling show. Playing this weekend only.

Get tickets: varsitydesmoines.com/movies/merri...
December 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Opening Friday: HAMNET, directed by Chloé Zhao, starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley, and based on the best-selling novel.

Witness the powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.

Get tickets at: varsitydesmoines.com/movies/hamne...
December 3, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Celebrate the holidays with us!

🌌11th & 14th: IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE
🪓11th: SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT PART 2
🤠16th: DIE HARD
🛸18th: SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS
🍝20th: ELF – SING & CHEER ALONG EDITION
🐸21st & 24th: THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL
🦫22nd: HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS – A NORTHWOODS CHRISTMAS
December 2, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Join us for a limited run of MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG 🎶 the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of the Stephen Sondheim musical! Opening Friday.

You have three chances to catch the film:
- Fri., 12/5 @ 3:30 pm
- Sat., 12/6 @ 12:30 pm
- Sun., 12/7 @ 12:30 pm

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November 30, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Give the gift of movies! 🎁 Varsity Cinema’s holiday offerings make it easy to treat the movie lovers in your life with everything from flexible gift cards and memberships to our newest sweatshirts and totes.

Explore our holiday gift options: varsitydesmoines.com/support/holi...
November 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Movies about movies should be seen in a movie theater. JAY KELLY is now playing. 🎞️

“A charming, wistful take on what lies beneath the myth of celebrity.” – Little White Lies

Showtimes: www.varsitydesmoines.com/movies/jay-kelly/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=or
November 25, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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“SENTIMENTAL VALUE packs a whole novel’s worth of emotional texture and telling visual detail” (Slate).

Opening Wednesday.

Tickets at: varsitydesmoines.com/movies/senti...
November 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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It won’t quite be freezing on Thanksgiving day but it’s getting there! 🥶 Bundle up with the cozy holiday favorite PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES, playing this Tuesday, Nov. 25 at 7pm.

www.varsitydesmoines.com/movies/planes-trains-and-automobiles/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=or
November 24, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Opening Wednesday, Nov. 26: SENTIMENTAL VALUE — Joachim Trier reunites with Renate Reinsve, plus Elle Fanning and Stellan Skarsgård, in this story of a fractured relationship between an acclaimed director and his two estranged daughters.

Tickets & Showtimes: varsitydesmoines.com/movies/senti...
November 22, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Join us Sat., Nov. 22 for a Met Opera: Live in HD screening of Strauss’s romantic comedy “Arabella." Presented in partnership with the Des Moines Metro Opera, who will have a representative present before the show to share background and answer questions!

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November 17, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Time's almost up! ⏰ Become a Varsity Cinema member or renew your membership before November 15 to get a FREE t-shirt — just show your registration at the box office. And you’ll be automatically entered to win a YEAR OF FREE MOVIES!

Join or renew today: varsitydesmoines.com/memberships/...
November 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Join us this Wednesday for THE KNEELING GODDESS + an intro from the Des Moines Art Center!

A sultry model leads a man away from his innocent wife and down into the ecstatic depths of degradation...

www.varsitydesmoines.com/the-kneeling-goddess/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=or
November 11, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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It's 5:30 somewhere. Let your conscious guide you to the Varsity this weekend to see the WTF-inducing film everyone's talking about.

#BUGONIA, Yorgos Lanthimos' latest film starring Emma Stone, is now playing.

Showtimes & tickets at: varsitydesmoines.com/movies/bugon...
November 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Join us on Nov. 12 for THE KNEELING GODDESS presented with the Des Moines Art Center with an intro from Senior Curator Laura Burkhalter about Manuel Álvarez Bravo who worked on the film.

🎟️ www.varsitydesmoines.com/showtimes/the-kneeling-goddess/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=or
November 6, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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This year’s Palme d’Or winner #ItWasJustAnAccident opens this Friday, November 7.

In the film, director #JafarPanahi “summons all the medium’s expressive powers to deliver a fierce, unambiguous denunciation of authoritarian regimes the world over” (Justin Chang, The New Yorker).

#ComingSoon
November 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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On Nov. 9, don’t miss five-time Olivier Award-winner Imelda Staunton (The Crown) onstage with her real-life daughter Bessie Carter (Bridgerton) for the first time, playing mother & daughter in Bernard Shaw’s “Mrs. Warren’s Profession” for #NationalTheatreLive.

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November 2, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Happy Halloween! 🎃 We’ve got two freaky good flicks for you this weekend.
October 31, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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#BUGONIA opens this THURSDAY. 🐝
October 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Want to work with us at Varsity Cinema? 🍿 We have a new opening for Shift Lead!

Read more and apply at www.varsitydesmoines.com/jobs.
October 28, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Emma Stone 🤝 Yorgos Lanthimos — They're back and better than ever in the wildly bizarre BUGONIA, opening this Thursday.

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October 26, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Join us one week from today for the Des Moines Underground Film Festival 🎥 to see a slate of locally made short films!

🎟️ Tickets at: varsitydesmoines.com/movies/des-m...

This year's lineup includes: "Vainglory" by Sydney Pierick, "Flyover" by Max Ward, "Hell's Hollow" by Connor Botts & many more!
October 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Join Varsity Cinema and Des Moines Performing Arts for a WICKED: FOR GOOD pre-screening singalong on Sunday, November 23!

The singalong will begin at 6:00 pm and the film will start at 7:00 pm. Plus, come early for themed cocktails!

🎟️ Tickets at: varsitydesmoines.com/movies/wicke...
October 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Tickets are on sale NOW for FRANKENSTEIN—opening this Friday! In Guillermo del Toro’s highly anticipated adaptation, Oscar Isaac stars as Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings a creature (Jacob Elordi) to life.

Get tickets at: varsitydesmoines.com/movies/frank...
October 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM