This Weekend’s Movies

valentines_day_poster_03WLF_Tsr1Sheet_352_10 (Page 1)percy-jackson-and-the-olympians-the-lightning-thief-poster-0videocracy_poster_600REGAL BATTERY PARK
Valentine’s Day: “Neither romantic nor remotely comedic.” —Manohla Dargis, The New York Times. (Also: “Grim grim grim.”)
The Wolfman: “Neither fantastical enough to be thrilling nor realistic enough to be genuinely disturbing.”—A.O. Scott, The New York Times.
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief: Harry Potter lite. Plus: Pierce Brosnan as a centaur.
• Still playing: Dear John, From Paris With Love, Edge of Darkness, Sherlock Holmes, Avatar in 3D, Up in the Air, Crazy Heart, The Blind Side.

LANDMARK SUNSHINE
Inglourious Basterds: So much violence, not even the title was spared.
• Still playing: Broken Embraces, North Face, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, Creation, and The Road. This time of year is bleak enough; do you really need to make things worse by seeing a post-apocalyptic movie?
• Midnight: Dark Crystal.

ANGELIKA
• Still playing: Terribly Happy, A Single Man, The Last Station, Crazy Heart. The line of the year, by the way, goes to Julianne Moore in A Single Man: “Be a dear and pick up some gin. Tanqueray. I love the color of the bottle.”

IFC CENTER
Videocracy: A takedown documentary about Silvio Berlusconi (if you don’t know who that is then this isn’t for you).
October Country: Documentary about a working-class family.
• Still playing: Red Riding, Fish TankThe Girl on the Train.
• Midnight and other one-off showings: Antichrist; Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans; In the Loop; Basic Instinct; House; Mississippi Mermaid; Total Recall.

FILM FORUM
• Still playing: Ajami, Ran, The White Ribbon.

92YTRIBECA
• Fri.: Celestial Navigations: The Short Films of Al Jarnow: “Al Jarnow captured life’s scientific minutia and boiled it down for easy consumption between cookie eating monsters and counting vampires” (7 p.m., 9 p.m.).
• Sat.: More Shoes (filmmaker walks from Madrid to Kiev, 7 p.m.); The Beautiful Person (French girl falls for teacher, which is understandable given that he’s played by Louis Garrel, 9 p.m.).

 
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