Unmistaken Child An eerie, moving documentary about the selection of a young Nepalese boy as the reincarnation of a revered Buddhist master. Filmmaker Nati Baratz observes dispassionately, with few resorts to voice-over narration and the like, and the results both convey lasting mysteries and raise further questions. In English, Tibetan, Nepali, and Hindi, with subtitles. (102 min., unrated) (Ty Burr)
Up The Pixar film is a loopy flyaway fantasy that’s hysterically funny if only to keep the darkness at bay. Less ambitious than “WALL-E,’’ it tells of an old coot (voice of Ed Asner) and a young kid (Jordan Nagai) who journey by balloon-lofted house to a mythical South America where dogs talk and gooneybirds squawk. (96 min., PG) (Ty Burr)
Whatever Works Minor Woody Allen, based on a 30-year-old script about a Manhattan sourpuss (Larry David, channeling the director) and the Southern-fried youngster (Evan Rachel Wood) he marries. As Wood’s mama, Patricia Clarkson is a regally smutty joy, but the film’s thin and divorced from any reality. (92 min., PG-13) (Ty Burr)
The WindmillMovie A remarkable documentary about a deceased Harvard film professor named Richard P. Rogers that attempts to reconcile Rogers’s sense of personal, professional, and artistic malaise, which culminated in his decades-long attempt to make a film about his life. He left behind over 200 hours of footage but no finished movie. One of Rogers’s former students tries, audaciously, to make sense of it all. (95 min., unrated) (Wesley Morris)
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Giant robots smash each other to rivets, the pyramids are reduced to rubble, fighter jets scream across the sky, and Megan Fox’s measurements are draped across the screen for maximum effect. Michael Bay directs; Shia LaBeouf stars. (150 min., PG-13) (Ty Burr)
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