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** SHAME Directed by: Steve McQueen Written by: McQueen and Abi Morgan Starring: Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale, and Nicole Beharie At: Kendall Square Running time: 96 minutes Rated: NC-17 (graphic sex and lots of nudity) Run, ladies. There's a vampire of sorts on the loose. His name is Brandon. He works in high-tech, and he wants you. All of you. Since Brandon is played by Michael Fassbender, it will be tempting to run toward him, toward his unclothed front as he pads around his equally underdressed Manhattan apartment.

Boston supermodel Gisele Bundchen was expected to join her Patriot husband, Tom Brady , at Monday night's Met Ball in New York City. Other celebs who walked the red carpet at the annual parade of couture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Benefit included Pittsfield's own Elizabeth Banks , Gwyneth Paltrow , Carey Mulligan , Scarlett Johansson , Harvard grad Rashida Jones , and Kristen Stewart...

NEW YORK — Carey Mulligan is returning to the New York stage this spring — and she’ll be losing her mind. The 25-year-old actress who shot to fame with the 2009 film “An Education’’ will star in an adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s 1961 movie, “Through a Glass Darkly.’’ The adaptation will premiere off-Broadway starting May 13. Mulligan will play an intense young woman harrowed by psychiatric illness who spirals out of...

ANONYMOUS ★★ (Comcast Movies: All Movies) Roland Emmerich's soap-opera thriller contends that the actual author of William Shakespeare's plays was one Edward de Vere (Rhys Ifans), the Earl of Oxford. Emmerich is so delighted to expose Shakespeare as a hack and a fraud that it feels like the work of a sleazy lawyer throwing the book at a corpse. Some of the acting is fun. Rafe Spall plays Shakespeare with exuberant dashes of paprika, and Vanessa Redgrave plays dotty Queen Elizabeth I as a Golden Age Golden Girl.

***½ DRIVE Directed by: Nicolas Winding Refn Written by: Hossein Amini adapted from James Sallis's novel Starring: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Ron Perlman, Oscar Isaac, and Albert Brooks At: Boston Common, Fenway, suburbs Running time: 100 minutes Rated: R (all manner of grisly violence and salty language, plus some nudity) Sometimes a movie knows you're watching it. It knows how to hold and keep you, how, when it's over, to make you want it all over again.

The movie is almost a year away, but people are already getting excited about Baz Lurhmann's 3D (!) adaptation of The Great Gatsby , with Leonardo DiCaprio as Gatsby and Carey Mulligan as Daisy. Early stills released from the studio show that the movie more-or-less glows with that special twenties beauty. But what is it, exactly, that's so beautiful about the twenties? Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties offers one answer. The book is the catalogue to a museum exhibit , currently at the Brooklyn Museum but soon to tour around...

Boston supermodel Gisele Bundchen was expected to join her Patriot husband, Tom Brady , at Monday night's Met Ball in New York City. Other celebs who walked the red carpet at the annual parade of couture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Benefit included Pittsfield's own Elizabeth Banks , Gwyneth Paltrow , Carey Mulligan , Scarlett Johansson , Harvard grad Rashida Jones , and Kristen Stewart...

MATILDA (Encore on Comcast) Danny DeVito succeeds in making a sweetly wild film of Roald Dahl’s book about a little girl with telekinetic powers. She blasts her way past crass parents unaware of her genius (DeVito and Rhea Perlman), not to mention a wicked schoolmistress who suggests an Olympic athlete from hell. Mara Wilson — in the title role — is a big plus, too. (PG; runs through July 22) AN EDUCATION (Comcast Movies: All Movies)

New releases *** Eames: The Architect and the Painter Ray and Charles Eames's designs, most notably for furniture, became emblems of educated, upper-middle-class taste in the '50s. This smart, lively (sometimes too lively) documentary looks at the Eameses on multiple levels: as husband and wife, artists, entrepreneurs, and icons. Narrated by James Franco. (84 min., unrated) (Mark Feeney) **½ From the Back of the Room A serviceable collection of women in the punk movement talking about being women in the punk movement.

If you think Daniel Radcliffe will never be able to shake off Harry Potter, see "My Boy Jack," the newest film in PBS's "Masterpiece" series. As Jack Kipling, the son of writer Rudyard Kipling, Radcliffe is superb - a tightly wound young man who joins in World War I despite abominable eyesight. He is notably un-Harry-like. But even if you don't care about Radcliffe, see "My Boy Jack," airing Sunday at 9 p.m. on Channel 2. See it for its most extraordinary performance, by David Haig as an impassioned Rudyard Kipling.

The movie is almost a year away, but people are already getting excited about Baz Lurhmann's 3D (!) adaptation of The Great Gatsby , with Leonardo DiCaprio as Gatsby and Carey Mulligan as Daisy. Early stills released from the studio show that the movie more-or-less glows with that special twenties beauty. But what is it, exactly, that's so beautiful about the twenties? Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties offers one answer. The book is the catalogue to a museum exhibit , currently at the Brooklyn Museum but soon to tour around the country.

ON WGBH Greater Boston 7 p.m. WGBH (Channel 2) Authors interviewed in 2011. An American Family: Anniversary Edition 8 p.m. WGBH (Channel 2) A compilation of memorable moments from the 1973 documentary series. ON CHRONICLE Homeless 7:30 p.m. WCVB-TV (Channel 5) For the past year, Chronicle has documented the lives of two families on the verge of homelessness. Tonight, we see how far they've come. RADIO HIGHLIGHTS The Diane Rehm Show 10 a.m. WGBH-FM (89.7)

New releases *** Eames: The Architect and the Painter Ray and Charles Eames's designs, most notably for furniture, became emblems of educated, upper-middle-class taste in the '50s. This smart, lively (sometimes too lively) documentary looks at the Eameses on multiple levels: as husband and wife, artists, entrepreneurs, and icons. Narrated by James Franco. (84 min., unrated) (Mark Feeney) **½ From the Back of the Room A serviceable collection of women in the punk movement talking about being women in the punk movement.

** SHAME Directed by: Steve McQueen Written by: McQueen and Abi Morgan Starring: Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale, and Nicole Beharie At: Kendall Square Running time: 96 minutes Rated: NC-17 (graphic sex and lots of nudity) Run, ladies. There's a vampire of sorts on the loose. His name is Brandon. He works in high-tech, and he wants you. All of you. Since Brandon is played by Michael Fassbender, it will be tempting to run toward him, toward his unclothed front as he pads around his equally underdressed Manhattan apartment.

Despite the ado about its NC-17 rating, "Shame" is the least-sexy movie about sex you will ever see. Michael Fassbender lays himself bare, literally and metaphorically, as a sex addict prowling an increasingly dark and dangerous New York City; one of the first shots is of his character, Brandon, walking naked through his chicly sparse bachelor pad in the unforgiving morning light. But there's nothing titillating about the often graphic interludes in which Brandon engages; they grow more desperate, animalistic and unsatisfying — for everyone involved...

***½ Drive In Nicolas Winding Refn's action thriller, Ryan Gosling plays a getaway-car driver who goes soft for the woman next door (Carey Mulligan). Refn finds so many perfect ways to disturb with the combination of utter stillness and grisly violence that the urge to applaud the achievement is involuntary. With Bryan Cranston, and, a very good, very vicious Albert Brooks. (100 min., R) (Wesley Morris) *½ Farmageddon: The Unseen War on American Family Farms Kristin Canty, a Concord mother of four, makes her writing-directing debut with this documentary about the...

Sometimes a movie knows you're watching it. It knows how to hold and keep you, how, when it's over, to make you want it all over again. Nicolas Winding Refn's "Drive" is a work of swift, brutal violence, but it's not the violence - a viciously stomped head, say, or the way a shotgun blast sounds like a bomb - that's sexy. It's the confidence to bring off the violence without appearing to break a sweat, to blatantly steal from Michael Mann without fear of being hauled off to movie jail, to deliver a hero whose signature jacket isn't leather.