Here are selected capsule reviews of movies in current release. Information is based on the most up-to-date theater schedules available and subject to change.
Reviewers include: M.P. = Michael Phillips; M.W. = Michael Wilmington.
After the Wedding
1/2: Mads Mikkelsen portrays a Dane named Jacob, struggling to keep an orphanage afloat in India. Sent to solicit funds in Copenhagen, Jacob encounters his past, embodied by catlike Sidse Babett Knudsen, who plays the wife of a potential savior. R. 1:59. — M.P.
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
1/2: The cult cartoon goes big screen with the absurd adventures of fast-food pals — a box of fries, a milkshake and a wad of meat. Hilarious for 20 minutes, but soon, even fans realize that junk food makes a great snack, but an awful diet. R. 1:27. — Eric Gwinn
Black Book
1/2: Paul Verhoeven’s epic of the World War II Dutch resistance and an improbable affair between a Jewish spy (Carice van Houten) and a Gestapo chief (Sebastian Koch) is fast and entertaining. In several languages, with English subtitles. R. 2:25. — M.W.
The Condemned
: A pretty awful action thriller from WWE Films and superstar Steve Austin. Ten condemned murderers, including Austin (secretly a U.S. commando), are pitted against each other on an island covered with reality-show cameras. R. 1:54. — M.W.
Disturbia
: In this teen-slanted rehash of plot from Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rear Window,” Shia LaBeouf plays a suburban kid under house arrest who suspects his next-door neighbor (David Morse) is a serial killer. PG-13. 1:44. — M.W.
Fracture
: The dialogue and the ensemble work in this drama: Anthony Hopkins plays a murderous smoothie who does not enjoy being a cuckold and shoots his wife (Embeth Davidtz). Then he generally makes life difficult for his adversary, a hotshot assistant DA (Ryan Gosling). R. 1:52. — M.P.
Hot Fuzz
: This gory lark hurls a “Bad Boys II” fireball at a quaint English town peopled by Agatha Christie archetypes. Simon Pegg deadpans his reassigned London cop role. Among the pubs and errant swans, he learns that murder’s afoot. Nick Frost is his easygoing partner. R. 2:01. — M.P.
In the Land of Women
: Slickly artificial doings from writer-director Jonathan Kasdan in which a fledgling L.A. writer (Adam Brody) visits his addled grandmother (Olympia Dukakis) in a Detroit suburb and strikes up friendships with the sullen teen (Kirsten Stewart) and her mother (Meg Ryan) across the street. PG-13. 1:37. — M.P.
Journey From the Fall
: After the U.S. abandons South Vietnam, a family pays for it. The freedom-loving man (Long Nguyen) is brutally “re-educated”; his wife (Diem Lien), mother (Kieu Chinh) and son (Nguyen Thai Nguyen) suffer during and after their escape to America. Yet hope sustains them. In Vietnamese, with English subtitles. R. 2:15. — Michael Esposito
Lions 3D
: Very basic IMAX fare follows a lion “king” and his lionesses trying to survive in the Kalahari. Many beautiful images and physically rattling sound — including elephants’ low-frequency rumble of dislike for lions — probably are worth the price of admission for some. No MPAA rating. 0:40. — Michael Esposito
Pathfinder
: A bloody adventure movie that hurls us into a 9th Century clash between Vikings and Native Americans led by a Viking-raised-by-Indians named Ghost (Karl Urban). R. 1:28. — M.W.
The Reaping
1/2: This overstuffed 10-pack plague thriller stars Hilary Swank as an LSU professor who has become “the foremost debunker of supposed miracles.” Strange doings in bayou country debunk the debunker, leading to the usual CGI-larded Satan-vs.-God business. R. 1:36. — M.P.
The TV Set
1/2: Jake Kasdan’s tour through the trials of network sitcom production is smart and funny at times in sending up what we all know: studio suits are vapid and unsympathetic to art, and writers check their standards at the door when they enlist. R. 1:29. — Sid Smith
Vacancy
: A variation on Hitchcock’s “Psycho,” director Nimrod Antal and writer Mark L. Smith imagine a motel where awful things go on, run by a creepy night clerk (Frank Whaley); then they put trapped travelers Kate Beckinsale and Luke Wilson through the wringer. R. 1:20. — M.W .
The Valet
1/2: The latest from writer-director Francis Veber finds his frequently used timid Everyman character — Francois Pignon, a lovelorn car-parker (Gad Elmaleh) — smitten by a bookseller (Virginie Ledoyen), with a supermodel playing matchmaker for them. PG-13. 1:25. — M.P.
Year of the Dog
: Director-writer Mike White’s film is about a woman (Molly Shannon) who loses the love of her life, her beagle Pencil, and falls apart before finding a new dog, new friends and new causes. That suggests a preachy drama, but White has made this into an oddball comedy about obsessions and outsiders. PG-13. 1:37. — M.W.
