Rockford's Northstar Cinema — Local services in Algoma Township

Over the last three years, this has slowly become my favorite movie theatre.

The small size actually adds to the experience. The ticket purchase and transition to concession is seamless. The concession prices are reasonable for the products offered, and except for the lack of raisinets (a mortal sin in cinematic concession customer experience), the overall effect is one of "small-town charm".

The theatre itself is cozy, and most importantly, properly sloped. This minimizes visual blockage from the proceeding row. The small size helps ensure that all seats, even the ones on the side wall, have an excellent view of the screen.

It has the feel of a small hometown movie house without sacrificing the salient points of the cosmopolitan cinema megaplex.

Except for the unforgivable faux pas regarding the raisinets...

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I took my 11 year old daughter to see Minecraft on its opening night at this theater. We’ve been here many times with no issues. She had been looking forward to it for months. Unfortunately our show experience was ruined by over 40 teenagers, unsupervised, who caused Loud clapping commotion dozens of times throughout the entire film. So loud you couldn’t hear what was being said. Each time they’d do it longer and louder. The most disrespectful display to people who paid to watch a film. This type of behavior shouldn’t be acceptable and is worse than a phone ringing in the theater. Theater employees should have interrupted the film and asked for the behavior to stop or asked the violators to leave. I plan to request a full refund since we missed large portions of the film due to the obnoxiously...

Video: 9 /10 - Very high quality, no fuzziness or blurry shots.

Sound: 7 / 10 - Sound is crisp and clear, though not quite up to the standards of bigger chains.

Seats: 8 / 10 - Seats are comfortable for the price paid.

Food: 6 / 10 -The food is quite cheap compared to other theaters, and the butter for the popcorn used to be Top Notch. Recently they seem to have changed the butter to more of an oil based butter flavor, which is a huge downgrade from what they used to use. I used to go in just to buy a bucket of their popcorn, as i loved the flavor of their old butter.

Ticket Price: Much cheaper then a chain theater. A normal family can see a movie for under half the price of...