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September 25, 2010

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Catfish An entertaining but highly problematic documentary about three New York hipsters who venture into the Midwestern heart of darkness when they Facebook-friend a family that — but we can say no more. Is it a hoax? Are the filmmakers shallow naifs or just pretending to be? See it for the excellent arguments you’ll have on the ride home. (94 min., PG-13) (Ty Burr)

A Film Unfinished Yael Hersonski’s devastating documentary reclaims propaganda footage the Nazis shot of the Warsaw Ghetto in May 1942 and extracts truth by showing us face after individual face of people who would soon be statistics. An important work that tackles issues of memory, history, and intent. In Polish, German, and Hebrew, with subtitles. (89 min., unrated) (Ty Burr)

Heartbreaker The charismatic Romain Duris plays a home-wrecker-for-hire. Vanessa Paradis plays the object of his latest mission. Will he fall in real love? Is an answer necessary? In French, with subtitles. (105 min., unrated) (Wesley Morris)

Jack Goes Boating Philip Seymour Hoffman’s directorial debut is, unsurprisingly, an actor’s movie full of actor’s moments. Based on a play, it casts Hoffman as a Manhattan man-child fumbling toward a relationship with the equally damaged Amy Ryan. At its worst, it plays like improv-class “Marty,’’ at its best it’s sweetly empathetic. (89 min., R) (Ty Burr)

Kings of Pastry Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker (“The War Room’’) go inside the dessert portion of the prestigious Meilleur Ouvrier de France competition, held every four years to designate top craftsmen. The result is a revealing window on artistry, obsession, triumph, tragedy, and cream puffs. (87 min., unrated) (Janice Page)

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole Zack Snyder’s 3-D animated fantasy adapts Cambridge author Kathryn Lasky’s novels about an adventuresome owlet (Jim Sturgess) seeking out legendary Guardian birds to save all of owldom. It’s sometimes charming and always visually astonishing. (91 min., PG) (Tom Russo)

Never Let Me Go Has a movie contained more frowning? In fairness, the characters are clones who’ve been reared for organ donation in the 1990s. But what might have worked better as science fiction is turned, rather thanklessly, into Gothic romance. With Carey Mulligan, and Keira Knightley. (103 min., PG-13) (Wesley Morris)

The Romantics Galt Niederhoffer’s serious wedding comedy spends a weekend at nuptials complicated by the groom’s feelings for the maid of honor (Katie Holmes). The movie is full of TV-drama castaways. It’s hard to care about characters this generic — even when they’re naked. (97 min., PG-13) (Wesley Morris)

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Oliver Stone’s belated sequel is set before and after the 2008 financial meltdown, and it’s an ebullient mess. Everyone here is dancing on a bubble, and no one except exiled Street jester Gordon Gekko (a magnificent Michael Douglas) has the guts to admit the bubble’s about to pop. (133 min., PG-13) (Ty Burr)

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