A Serious Man The Coen brothers remake the Book of Job in 1967 suburban Minneapolis. It’s Jewish Bergman and one of their very best films - a pitch-black Old Testament farce in which God is either absent, absent-minded, or mad as hell. Love it or hate it, it’ll haunt you for a long time. Michael Stuhlbarg plays the hapless hero. (105 min., R) (Ty Burr)
Surrogates In the future, we’ll all have robot surrogates, and won’t that be fun? The latest Bruce Willis futuristic action rama-lama is a pretty watchable sci-fi B movie, a case of a good director (Jonathan Mostow) and some intriguing ideas struggling to overcome formula plotting, limp dialogue, and a serious case of the sillies. (88 min., PG-13) (Ty Burr)
Toy Story/Toy Story 2 For this double feature re-release, Disney and Pixar give their original flagship a 3-D makeover so that the movies don’t look stale next to “Up,’’ or next year’s “Toy Story 3.’’ Happily, “Toy Story’’ and current technology do make a terrific match. Seeing the imagery dimensionalized subtly adds to the already tangible curviness of Woody and Buzz’s molded plastic world. (188 min., G) (Tom Russo)
Where the Wild Things Are In adapting Maurice Sendak’s classic book, director Spike Jonze has teased out the melancholy along with the magic. The film has more than its share of wild rumpuses, but its heart is in what happens after the rumpus dies down. Max Records is a fine Max; James Gandolfini and others provide voices. (101 min., PG) (Ty Burr)
Whip It This comedy about a Texas girl (Ellen Page) who discovers roller derby marks the directing debut of Drew Barrymore, who has so thoroughly laced the movie with her own lunatic affections for women and the human race in general that it ought to be sold as an antidepressant. With Marcia Gay Harden, Kristen Wiig, Alia Shawkat, Juliette Lewis, and the director as a stoner derbyist. Shauna Cross adapted the smart script from her novel. (111 min., PG-13) (Wesley Morris)
Zombieland A short, tatty zombie farce that’s the funniest entry in the genre since “Shaun of the Dead.’’ Playing the handful of post-plague survivors are Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, and Abigail Breslin - Little Miss Sunshine with a double-barreled shotgun. Gory rather than scary, a little too sloppy, but very entertaining. (83 min., R) (Ty Burr)
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