REGAL BATTERY PARK
• Avatar: James Cameron’s sci-fi opus. Apparently it succeeds, but those blue people, I don’t know…. (Also being screened in digital 3-D).
• Did You Hear About the Morgans? Two generally likable people (Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker) get trapped in a cliché.
• Up in the Air: George Clooney starts to have qualms about firing people.
• The Hurt Locker: Iraq bomb diffusers back for an Oscar run.
•  Also: Invictus, The Princess and the Frog, Brothers, The Blind Side, 2012, Twlight: New Moon, Fantastic Mr. Fox (so help me, I’m going this weekend), and Disney’s A Christmas Carol.

LANDMARK SUNSHINE
• Black Dynamite: Yet another Blaxploitation spoof.
• Also: Broken Embraces, A Serious Man, The Road.

ANGELIKA
• Crazy Heart: Jeff Bridges as a has-been country singer; with Maggie Gyllenhaal and Colin Farrell.
• Also: Invictus, A Single Man.

92YTRIBECA
• The Neverending Story: Kids’ fantasy flick at 10 p.m. on Friday? Presumably most of the audience will be stoned.
• The Last Movie: A “crash-and-burn” directed by (and starring) Dennis Hopper in 1971. Sat., 8 p.m.
• This Is Spinal Tap: A sing-along version (admission includes one beer). Sat., 11 p.m.

IFC CENTER
• Under the Eightball: The other Lyme Disease movie
• Also: My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done, Antichrist (why is this still out?), It’s a Wonderful Life, and a bunch of single screenings (Bad Santa, Big River Man, El Topo, Loot, Francois Ozon’s Ricky, The Shining, and Winter Wondershorts)