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Extract A meandering, only fitfully funny comedy from Mike Judge (“Office Space’’ and TV’s “King of the Hill’’), with Jason Bateman as the owner of a small flavoring extract company. He’s dealing with a possible lawsuit and a wife who seems uninterested in sex with him. There’s classic screwball comedy lurking in this material, a cynic’s recognition that the world runs crookedly. But the movie is logy and repetitive, scattered with good bits that amount to nothing at all of substance. Extract, indeed. (91 min., R) (Wesley Morris)

Flame and Citron A big-budget Danish drama based on a pair of real-life World War II resistance fighters. It’s the anti-“Inglourious Basterds’’ - a story about heroic Nazi-killers in which heroism itself sinks under bewildering crosscurrents of motives and uncertainty. Thure Lindhardt and Mads Mikkelsen play the leads. In Danish and German, with subtitles. (130 min., unrated) (Ty Burr)

Munyurangabo This contemplative film about the ongoing aftermath of the Rwandan genocide tells the story of two young Rwandan men - one Hutu, the other Tutsi - on the road. Completed in about 11 days, Lee Isaac Chung’s first film has the tidiness and optimism of a fable. But it showcases certain hard facts of life in a war-torn country whose scars have yet to heal. (88 min., PG) (Wesley Morris)

My One and Only Renée Zellweger is back where she belongs: in the American past. She plays a 1950s wife who drags her two teenage sons husband-hunting across America. By the preposterously tidy ending, it’s revealed that the elder son, George (Logan Lerman), isn’t just any George but a famous, notoriously tan one. Suddenly, the movie’s conceited tone makes sense in hindsight, like finding out that Kevin Spacey was Keyzer Soze all along. (107 min., PG-13) (Wesley Morris)

Somers Town From director Shane Meadows, poet of working-class England, comes a short, lyrical black-and-white lark about two adolescent boys becoming friends in an unforgiving London. The film has sharp edges and a soft center; it’s not much but it sticks with you just the same. Starring Piotr Jagiello and the unforgettable Thomas Turgoose (71 min., unrated) (Ty Burr)

We Live in Public An entertaining, often jaw-dropping documentary about Josh Harris, the “greatest Internet pioneer you’ve never heard of’’ and a darling of the dot.com boom who flamed out into theory, madness, and clown makeup. Good stuff, even if director Ondi Timoner never clarifies her dual roles as participant and observer. (89 min., unrated) (Ty Burr)

The Window As an elderly, infirm writer (Antonio Larreta) awaits the return of his estranged son to his country estate, the events of a momentous day unfold with minimal melodrama. Writer-director Carlos Sorin has a fine watchful eye, though it doesn’t extend to the occasional plot implausibility. (75 min., unrated) (Mark Feeney)

World’s Greatest Dad In Bobcat Goldthwait’s black comedy, Robin Williams plays a failed writer who makes his son’s death look like a suicide. The death bestows popularity on both the boy and his father. As satire, the movie is half-hearted. It’s unsure how badly it wants to be in bad taste. But there is one wonderful sequence that’s like a very good music video and a handful of decent performances, notably from Daryl Sabara, who plays the son. (99 min., R) (Wesley Morris)

The Final Destination The fourth and allegedly last of these movies, in which a young man (Bobby Campo this time) tries to put the brakes on death. Now it’s in 3-D. So when a hurtling tire decapitates a woman, it’s as if it were first coming for you. And yet nothing about that tire is exciting enough to make you jump. (82 min., R) (Wesley Morris)

Halloween II With his new sequel, Rob Zombie spends less time paying tribute and more time getting inventive, with mixed results. The print ads claim this is the franchise’s “final chapter,’’ but despite Zombie’s efforts - or because of them - only the most hardcore fans will have a hard time saying goodbye. (101 min., R) (Tom Russo)

Inglourious Basterds Quentin Tarantino takes on the Nazis. Strenuously unserious, it’s a manically playful revenge fantasia made from the spare parts of Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns and strapping WWII action flicks like “The Great Escape.’’ It’s also the director’s weakest film yet. (153 min., R) (Ty Burr)

It Might Get Loud The director of “An Inconvenient Truth,’’ Davis Guggenheim, rounds up the rock guitarists Jimmy Page, The Edge, and Jack White to talk to one another about their instruments and jam together. To flesh out this “summit,’’ as the movie calls it, Guggenheim follows each man to wherever he might go. (97 min., PG) (Wesley Morris)

Ponyo In Hayao Miyazaki’s movie, a sea creature longs to be a real, human girl who can eat ham and have fun. But it’s more an ecological cautionary tale than a fable. Miyazaki’s ability to weave the ordinary and the irregular into something dreamlike keeps the movie from abject cuteness. With the voices of Tina Fey, Liam Neeson. (101 min., G) (Wesley Morris)

Post Grad Recent college grad Ryden Malby has a plan: Get a job at a top publishing firm and buy a swanky apartment in downtown LA. But after she finds her plan shattered by the ruthless job market, she moves back in with her eccentric family. It’s a disjointed tale that spirals far from the topic at hand. (89 min., PG-13) (Laura Bennett)

Séraphine The story of Séraphine Louis, a country washerwoman who painted ecstatic, almost hallucinatory still lifes in pre-war France, may be one of the most unsettling films ever made about the hazy line between art and madness. In French, with subtitles (121 min., unrated) (Ty Burr)

Shorts The new family comedy from Robert Rodriguez is the multiplex equivalent of ADD. A simple story about a bunch of kids and a magic wishing rock is told out of sequence with manic overexuberance. Your kids may like it but you’ll need a drink. (89 min., PG) (Ty Burr)

Spread Shameless playboy Nikki (Ashton Kutcher) spends his days living large in Los Angeles on the tabs of the wealthy older women he seduces. The film is a glossy romp through every male fantasy imaginable, rife with nudity and lurid sex scenes. But “Spread’’ loses any trace of luster as soon as Nikki’s philandering dissolves into moony romance with a woman (Margareta Levieva) who plays the game as well as he does. (91 min., R) (Laura Bennett)

Taking Woodstock Ang Lee’s movie explains how Woodstock came to pass. It doesn’t get close to the concert, hanging back for droll shenanigans between the son and parents who run the hotel where the concert organizers stay. Some of it is funny. Some of it just sits there. It’s all this close to being a beach movie. (120 min., R) (Wesley Morris)

Thirst Park Chan-wook, the bad-boy director of subversive Korean action films, returns with an entertainingly deranged tale of vampirism, Catholic priests, infectious disease, and plain old murderous adultery. Not for the faint of heart. In Korean, with subtitles. (133 min., R) (Ty Burr)

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