Movie Listings for Feb. 3-9

Movies Ratings and running times are in parentheses; foreign-language films have English subtitles. Full reviews of all current releases: nytimes.com/movies. ‘The Adventures of Tintin’ (PG, 1:47) The Belgian boy detective (Jamie Bell) and his dog, Snowy, get a motion-capture makeover in Steven Spielberg’s wildly overworked animated movie, which has the expected technique and hardly a moment of downtime. (Manohla Dargis) ‘Albert Nobbs’ (R, 1:53) In Rodrigo García’s film, set in 19th-century Dublin, a shabby-genteel hotel is the backdrop for a touching drama of courage and disguise. Glenn Close is the title character, a woman living as a man, and her Oscar-nominated performance is the quiet centerpiece of a story that is sensitive and perhaps a bit too decorous, but satisfying all the same. (A. O. Scott) ‘All’s Well, End’s Well 2012’ (No rating, 1:58, in Cantonese) Some especially funny women (it’s a trend everywhere) are in the four story lines of this goofy, cotton-candy romantic comedy. (David DeWitt) ★ ‘The Artist’ (PG-13, 1:40) This best-film Oscar nominee is not so much a tribute to the glories of silent cinema as an ingeniously up-to-date attempt to replicate their magic. Completely delightful. (Scott) ‘Carnage’ (R, 1:20) Fear and loathing among the privileged parents of Brooklyn, courtesy of Roman Polanski and Yasmina Reza, whose source play was called “The God of Carnage.” Christoph Waltz, Kate Winslet, John C. Reilly and Jodie Foster are in good form as the bickering bobos, and Mr. Polanski is a virtuoso of confinement and claustrophobia, but the elegant camera work and abundant verbiage cannot disguise how glib and intellectually thin the material is. (Scott) ‘Contraband’ (R, 1:50) Implausibility as a defining narrative principle is part of the kick of this mostly thrill-free thriller about a New Orleans smuggler (Mark Wahlberg), as is the director Baltasar Kormákur’s fondness for industrial grunge. (Dargis) ‘Coriolanus’ (R, 2:02) A fierce, thrilling Ralph Fiennes, making an estimable directing debut, plays Shakespeare’s warrior turned politician in this modern-day iteration. The supporting cast includes Vanessa Redgrave and Brian Cox. (Dargis) ★ ‘Crazy Horse’ (No rating, 2:14, in English and French) The great documentarian Frederick Wiseman visits a famous Paris strip joint — where voyeurism is decked out in the language of art and philosophy — and comes away with a visual essay that is both cerebral and sensual, a tour de force of high-minded ogling. (Scott) ★ ‘A Dangerous Method’ (R, 1:39) Michael Fassbender is Carl Jung, Viggo Mortensen is Sigmund Freud, and Keira Knightley is Sabina Spielrein, a young woman caught between the two giants of modern psychology during the years of their volatile association. Directed by David Cronenberg from a script by Christopher Hampton (based on his own play and John Kerr’s book), the film is sexually charged and intellectually thrilling, propelled by its characters’ terror and excitement as they explore the unmapped territory of the unconscious. (Scott) ★ ‘Declaration of War’ (No rating, 1:40, in French) On paper, the subject of this manic sprint of a movie, whose style and momentum recall French New Wave films like “Jules and Jim,” sounds depressing: the 18-month-old son of bohemian Parisians develops a malignant brain tumor. But the crisis transforms their daily life into an exhilarating race against time. (Stephen Holden) ★ ‘The Descendants’ (R, 1:55) Alexander Payne’s splendid new film somehow manages to be both a family melodrama and a knockabout farce without exaggerating anything. George Clooney, an Oscar nominee, plays Matt King, the scion of a wealthy family of Hawaii landowners, whose wife is in an irreversible coma after a boating accident. Matt must deal with his daughters — Amara Miller and Shailene Woodley, both excellent — and with a great deal more besides, including a land deal and the aftermath of his wife’s infidelity. The Oscar-nominated movie is full of incident and surprise, humor and pathos, but the most striking and satisfying thing about it is the freedom Mr. Payne grants the characters, who move through the story on the momentum of their own choices and instincts. They are so vivid and real that you miss them when the movie’s over. (Scott) 影视帝国 tomove.com.cnMAP 香港热片 热韩热片 欧美热片