Nathan Gelgud

Prometheus opens Friday throughout the Triangle (see times below) Our rating: It took three years, but the world of big budget sci-fi finally has an antidote to the phony spiritualism and New Age warmth of Avatar. Instead of trafficking in the excitement of vicarious living through superior beings, Ridley Scott’s Prometheus trades in the poisonous […]

Bernie opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: Bernie is a small-town courtroom tale that would have Atticus Finch spinning in his grave. Luckily, the title character is an assistant funeral director with a magnanimous heart: He surely would be happy to touch up the corpse of the saintly Mississippi lawyer. Richard […]

The Deep Blue Sea opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: Don’t pour the milk into the cup before the tea. Be respectful of those who deserve it; to everyone else, be civil. Don’t put the shoes on the table because it’s bad luck (silly me, I always thought you didn’t put […]

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen opens Friday at the Rialto (see times below) Our rating: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen might be the gentlest movie ever made involving a political scandal, an eccentric sheik, an M.I.A. soldier and a slow-burning romance between two people as attractive as Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt. Think Wag the […]

Jeff, Who Lives at Home opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: Filmmakers Jay and Mark Duplass come from microbudget, so-called mumblecore origins, but Jeff, Who Lives at Home is their second mainstream release (after Cyrus). Even though the Duplasses now have a modest budget and veritable movie stars in the mix, […]

2011 Oscar Shorts: Live action Animated Feb. 10–16 at the Carolina Theatre (see times below) Does your office Oscar pool count the short films as anything more than tiebreakers? If so, you might be able to gain an edge by visiting the Carolina Theatre, which will be screening all of the nominees in the short […]

A Dangerous Method opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: In David Cronenberg’s surprisingly non-delirious A Dangerous Method, two titans of psychotherapy fight over theories of repression, the meaning of dreams and a disturbed and beautiful patient who frolics in a puddle and, covered with mud, shouts that her interests are “suicide […]

Carnage opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: Carnage is an adaptation of a successful play, but the movie is pure Roman Polanski, with a touch of Luis Buñuel. Four people seem trapped together in an apartment, unable to split apart despite rising hostilities. Penelope and Michael Longstreet (Jodie Foster and John […]

Young Adult opens Friday throughout the Triangle (see times below) Our rating: “You’re better than this,” Buddy tells Mavis when she’s especially out of line in Young Adult, a queasy comedy about nostalgia and stunted emotional growth. But in its painful 90 minutes, Young Adult slowly makes it clear that Mavis, played unsympathetically by Charlize […]