Movie Stars

Crab Trap This impressive debut from writer-director Oscar Ruiz Navia is short on dialogue and plot but long on atmosphere and mood. New and old worlds collide in a coastal Colombian village when a mysterious drifter wanders in from the nearby jungle and interacts with villagers including a tribal elder and a wise little girl. (95 min., unrated) (Loren King)

Cedar Rapids Were it 60 minutes shorter, Miguel Arteta’s comedy would fit seamlessly in NBC’s Thursday lineup. It’s about Midwestern insurance companies vying for a lucrative endorsement from an industry kingmaker. The movie shouldn’t work, yet it does. Nearly all of it revolves around an agent played by Ed Helms, who on “The Daily Show,’’ “The Office,’’ and in “The Hangover,’’ cultivated a boob persona that deservedly receives a movie of its own. (86 min., R) (Wesley Morris)

Drive Angry Come, laugh at the news that Nicolas Cage plays a character called John Milton and that Milton is an escapee from Hell who wears a leather jacket and wispy blond hair and wants to stop a cult leader from sacrificing his infant granddaughter. As urgent as that sounds, it doesn’t do much to prevent him from, say, conducting a motel room-shootout with a naked woman screaming in his lap and a giant cigar in his mouth. (104 min., R) (Wesley Morris)

Gnomeo & Juliet As enjoyable as non-Pixar kiddie flicks get. This 3-D animated UK import about star-crossed garden gnomes owes more to the “Toy Story’’ franchise than it should, but it has its own bizarre charms and a breezy confidence that renders it the very definition of a simple pleasure. James McAvoy and Emily Blunt have aural chemistry as the lead voices. (84 min., G) (Ty Burr)

Hall Pass Bobby and Peter Farrelly bring water to the arid desert currently calling itself American film comedy. The new movie’s hook makes a gimmicky first impression. The wives (Jenna Fischer, Christina Applegate) of two suburban salesmen (Owen Wilson, Jason Sudeikis) give their men a week to cheat. If the Farrellys are chasing social fads, their movie serves as hilarious forensic evidence of the precipitous downside of some would-be trends. (98 min., R) (Wesley Morris)

I Am Number Four For teenage girls who can’t wait for the next installment of “Twilight.’’ Instead of a misunderstood bloodsucker, the hero (hunky Alex Pettyfer) is an adolescent alien in exile; Dianna Agron (TV’s “Glee’’) is the high school sweetie-pie he falls for. It’s overly broody until the action kicks in during the final half-hour. With Timothy Olyphant. (104 min., PG-13) (Ty Burr)

Just Go With It The new Adam Sandler movie is based on 1969’s “Cactus Flower,’’ for which Goldie Hawn won an Oscar. That movie was based on a French play, making “Just Go With It’’ as close as the French might want Sandler coming to their country. The remake also has parts for Jennifer Aniston, Nicole Kidman, and the musician Dave Matthews. The number of times men are pounded in the crotch suggests the movie is a comedy, but nearly everything else about it says science fiction.(117 min. PG-13) (Wesley Morris)

Justin Bieber: Never Say Never For about half a song, this extremely watchable, nominal documentary about the 16-year-old singer Justin Bieber celebrates his strange haircut. But the movie also usefully, carefully, and cogently argues that Bieber is more than his hair. In concert, he’s a televangelist pretending to heal the lame. (105 min., G) (Wesley Morris)

Unknown A preposterous but fun mistaken-identity thriller with Liam Neeson as a doctor who awakens from a coma and discovers that no one knows who he is. Why do people keep stealing Neeson’s stuff? This movie taps the same ludicrous action vein as Neeson’s last action-thriller, “Taken,’’ but it’s a good deal more visually coherent and less demanding on Neeson, his stunt doubles, and us. (113 min., PG-13) (Wesley Morris)

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