Movie Stars

The Girlfriends (Le Amiche) Poised between his realist roots and the chic anomie of his ’60s heyday, Michelangelo Antonioni filmed this story of five well-off female friends in Turin in 1955. It’s adapted from a Cesare Pavese novella, but Antonioni’s direction is so assured the movie feels effortlessly cinematic. In Italian, with subtitles. (99 min, unrated) (Mark Feeney)

I Am Love Luca Guadagnino’s rapturous melodrama plays like “Lady Chatterley’s Lover’’ reimagined by a consortium of top European designers. Tilda Swinton swoons as a wealthy Milan wife who falls for her son’s friend (Edoardo Gabbriellini), a brilliant young chef. In Italian, with subtitles. (120 min., R) (Ty Burr)

The Killer Inside Me Michael Winterbottom’s controversial adaptation of the 1952 pulp novel by Jim Thompson features Casey Affleck (quite good) as a psychotic small-town Texas deputy sheriff and a handful of scenes so brutally violent they tip the movie over. Well-made and as heartless as its antihero. (109 min., R) (Ty Burr)

Love Ranch Have you been waiting for Helen Mirren to run the best little whorehouse in Reno? Have you been waiting for her to do so with a pile of blond hair, married to Joe Pesci, but desperately in love with an Argentine boxer — all in a movie directed by Dame Helen’s husband, Taylor Hackford? Well, you’re likely to have “Love Ranch’’ all to yourself. (117 min., R) (Wesley Morris)

Restrepo Even when it’s never altogether clear where it’s coming from, danger is omnipresent in this documentary by Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger. They holed up with an Army platoon stationed for 15 months in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley, and their claustrophobically immersive movie is a backhanded achievement. It puts us so close to so much, yet keeps us at an emotional remove. As if to say, no matter how much we see, we’ll never know. (93 min., R) (Wesley Morris)

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse The longest, oddest courtship in the history of the movies continues. She (Kristen Stewart) wants him. He (Robert Pattinson) wants to wait. This is the third movie in the series, and it mitigates its parable for sex, abstinence, and moral choices with hot vampires and overheated werewolves. Metaphors and parallels are squared almost evenly — bloodsuckers vs. their lupine adversaries, lust vs. chastity, talking vs. action. (124 min., PG-13) (Wesley Morris)

Women Without Men As the country reels through political crisis, four women in 1953 Iran seek asylum from the cruelties of men in a mystical orchard. The feature directing debut of noted photographer and feminist Shirin Neshat mixes history and dream-logic, anger and hope, in striking fashion. In Persian, with subtitles. (95 min., unrated) (Ty Burr)

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