Eldorado Director-actor Bouli Lanners is a dour older man who takes up the plight of a younger would-be thief (Fabrice Adde) to find redemption through a bizarrely comic landscape of characters and mishaps. In French with subtitles. (80 min., unrated) (Thomasine Berg)
Funny People Bad-boy comedy maestro Judd Apatow has decided he has something important to say: Being funny is no fun. Adam Sandler is excellent as a nasty Hollywood star with a fatal disease, but at two and a half hours, “People’’ is two movies, neither very good. (146 min., R) (Ty Burr)
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)
Shrink You’ll never guess what this schmaltzy, dour, and intellectually vacant movie is about. A shrink! Kevin Spacey plays said shrink, a Los Angeles psychiatrist, a pothead and best-selling author who’s been depressed since his wife killed herself. Robin Williams plays one of the patients. (109 min., R) (Wesley Morris)
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Brüno Sacha Baron Cohen’s flamboyant Austrian nincompoop comes to America seeking fame. He throws his barely concealed crotch at the camera and tries to film a sex video with an annoyed Ron Paul. Cohen is looking to exploit the hate that exists in people, but he doesn’t quite find it, and the movie just sputters. (82 min., R) (Wesley Morris)
Cheri Michelle Pfeiffer plays a Belle Epoque courtesan emotionally entangled with a young Parisian (Rupert Friend). What at first seems a waxwork parody of Merchant Ivory-style filmmaking becomes a surprisingly sharp meditation on beauty and age, both in 19th-century France and the modern film industry. (92 min., R) (Ty Burr)
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