`Crimen' doesn't pay, but it sure is funny.(Arts and Lifestyle)

"EL CRIMEN PERFECTO"

Not rated. In Spanish with subtitles.

THREE STARS (out of four)

Bed salesman Rafael (Guillermo Toledo) expects to be named manager, but his rival, Don Antonio (Luis Varela), wins the bid. After Don suffers a sudden demise at Rafael's hands, Rafael and plain salesgirl Lourdes (Monice Cervera) dispose of the body. Things only get worse when Lourdes makes Rafael her sex slave and blackmails him. Caustically funny and about as romantic as a colonoscopy, "El Crimen Perfecto" is a cautionary fable about making our own hell on earth. (At Kendall Square Cinema) - STEPHEN SCHAEFER

"GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK"

Rated PG

THREE STARS (out of four)

Before even the great Cronkite, Edward R. Murrow (David Strathairn) was the beloved newsman, a gravelly voiced knight-errant waging warfare against fascism and oppression, initially by broadcasting from London during the Blitz. After World War II, when McCarthyism fell across the land, Murrow took on the great beast himself, Wisconsin Sen. Joe McCarthy, played Zelig-style by the senator himself in archival footage. Though very narrowly focused, "Good Night, and Good Luck" is a relevant and well-meaning love letter to the trailblazing newsman. (At the Loews Boston Common and Harvard Square.) - JAMES VERNIERE"THE GOSPEL"

Rated PG

ONE STAR (out of four)

David (Boris Kodjoe) is the son of Pastor Fred Taylor (Clifton Powell), who commits more time and strength to his church than to his family. Distancing himself from his father after his mother's death, David hits it big as an r & b superstar. When Pastor Fred becomes ill, David returns home to Atlanta to take care of him, only to realize his church lies in jeopardy. Canceling upcoming tour dates, David organizes a charity event to save the church, learning important lessons along the way. It's a standard, decent idea but is executed in a contrived way that inspires the kind of awe that only comes from a bad place. (At Loews Boston Common.) - CHELSEA BAIN

"IN HER SHOES"

Rated PG-13

THREE STARS (out of four)

Rose Feller (Toni Collette) is a Princetoneducated attorney whose job is to pick up the pieces whenever her party girl sister Maggie (Cameron Diaz) gets herself into a new disaster. After Rose and Maggie have a disastrous falling out, Maggie leaves Philadelphia for a Florida assisted-living facility to find Ella Hirsch (Shirley MacLaine), the maternal grandmother she and Rose believed to be dead. Based on a novel by Jennifer Weiner, "In Her Shoes" is a good, solid sisterhood-is-powerful-when-it-isn't-hell-on-earth family fable. (At AMC Fenway, Loews Boston Common and suburban theaters.) - J.V.

"TWO FOR THE MONEY"

Rated R

ONE STAR (out of four)

Walter Abrams (Al Pacino) is a sports-betting impresario and obnoxious blowhard. Abrams offers phone-betting whiz Brandon Lang (Matthew McConaughey), whose dream of professional football stardom ended with a broken knee, a chance at the big time. The film is a grotesque failure and all the characters run the gamut from the merely unsympathetic to the absolutely loathesome. At the end of "Two for the Money," characters are on the verge of winning or losing millions of dollars, and you sit there thinking: Who cares what happens to these idiots? (At AMC Fenway, Loews Boston Common and suburban theaters.) - J.V.

"WALLACE & GROMIT: THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT"

Rated G

THREE AND ONE HALF STARS (out of four)

The annual Giant Vegetable Competition is approaching, and Wallace (voice of Peter Sallis) and Gromit are trapping hordes of strangely quirky rabbits and housing them in their basement. When an experiment involving "rabbit rehabiliation" goes horribly wrong, a mysterious beast of gigantic proportions begins a reign of vege-terror and Wallace and Gromit are commissioned to ride to the rescue. The film has enough wacky inventiveness and pure silliness to entertain both children and adults. (At AMC Fenway, Loews Boston Common and suburban theaters.) - J.V.

- Boston Herald film clips compiled by Heather V. Eng.

`Crimen' doesn't pay, but it sure is funny.(Arts and Lifestyle)

"EL CRIMEN PERFECTO"

Not rated. In Spanish with subtitles.

THREE STARS (out of four)

Bed salesman Rafael (Guillermo Toledo) expects to be named manager, but his rival, Don Antonio (Luis Varela), wins the bid. After Don suffers a sudden demise at Rafael's hands, Rafael and plain salesgirl Lourdes (Monice Cervera) dispose of the body. Things only get worse when Lourdes makes Rafael her sex slave and blackmails him. Caustically funny and about as romantic as a colonoscopy, "El Crimen Perfecto" is a cautionary fable about making our own hell on earth. (At Kendall Square Cinema) - STEPHEN SCHAEFER

"GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK"

Rated PG

THREE STARS (out of four)

Before even the great Cronkite, Edward R. Murrow (David Strathairn) was the beloved newsman, a gravelly voiced knight-errant waging warfare against fascism and oppression, initially by broadcasting from London during the Blitz. After World War II, when McCarthyism fell across the land, Murrow took on the great beast himself, Wisconsin Sen. Joe McCarthy, played Zelig-style by the senator himself in archival footage. Though very narrowly focused, "Good Night, and Good Luck" is a relevant and well-meaning love letter to the trailblazing newsman. (At the Loews Boston Common and Harvard Square.) - JAMES VERNIERE"THE GOSPEL"

Rated PG

ONE STAR (out of four)

David (Boris Kodjoe) is the son of Pastor Fred Taylor (Clifton Powell), who commits more time and strength to his church than to his family. Distancing himself from his father after his mother's death, David hits it big as an r & b superstar. When Pastor Fred becomes ill, David returns home to Atlanta to take care of him, only to realize his church lies in jeopardy. Canceling upcoming tour dates, David organizes a charity event to save the church, learning important lessons along the way. It's a standard, decent idea but is executed in a contrived way that inspires the kind of awe that only comes from a bad place. (At Loews Boston Common.) - CHELSEA BAIN

"IN HER SHOES"

Rated PG-13

THREE STARS (out of four)

Rose Feller (Toni Collette) is a Princetoneducated attorney whose job is to pick up the pieces whenever her party girl sister Maggie (Cameron Diaz) gets herself into a new disaster. After Rose and Maggie have a disastrous falling out, Maggie leaves Philadelphia for a Florida assisted-living facility to find Ella Hirsch (Shirley MacLaine), the maternal grandmother she and Rose believed to be dead. Based on a novel by Jennifer Weiner, "In Her Shoes" is a good, solid sisterhood-is-powerful-when-it-isn't-hell-on-earth family fable. (At AMC Fenway, Loews Boston Common and suburban theaters.) - J.V.

"TWO FOR THE MONEY"

Rated R

ONE STAR (out of four)

Walter Abrams (Al Pacino) is a sports-betting impresario and obnoxious blowhard. Abrams offers phone-betting whiz Brandon Lang (Matthew McConaughey), whose dream of professional football stardom ended with a broken knee, a chance at the big time. The film is a grotesque failure and all the characters run the gamut from the merely unsympathetic to the absolutely loathesome. At the end of "Two for the Money," characters are on the verge of winning or losing millions of dollars, and you sit there thinking: Who cares what happens to these idiots? (At AMC Fenway, Loews Boston Common and suburban theaters.) - J.V.

"WALLACE & GROMIT: THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT"

Rated G

THREE AND ONE HALF STARS (out of four)

The annual Giant Vegetable Competition is approaching, and Wallace (voice of Peter Sallis) and Gromit are trapping hordes of strangely quirky rabbits and housing them in their basement. When an experiment involving "rabbit rehabiliation" goes horribly wrong, a mysterious beast of gigantic proportions begins a reign of vege-terror and Wallace and Gromit are commissioned to ride to the rescue. The film has enough wacky inventiveness and pure silliness to entertain both children and adults. (At AMC Fenway, Loews Boston Common and suburban theaters.) - J.V.

- Boston Herald film clips compiled by Heather V. Eng.

`Crimen' doesn't pay, but it sure is funny.(Arts and Lifestyle)

"EL CRIMEN PERFECTO"

Not rated. In Spanish with subtitles.

THREE STARS (out of four)

Bed salesman Rafael (Guillermo Toledo) expects to be named manager, but his rival, Don Antonio (Luis Varela), wins the bid. After Don suffers a sudden demise at Rafael's hands, Rafael and plain salesgirl Lourdes (Monice Cervera) dispose of the body. Things only get worse when Lourdes makes Rafael her sex slave and blackmails him. Caustically funny and about as romantic as a colonoscopy, "El Crimen Perfecto" is a cautionary fable about making our own hell on earth. (At Kendall Square Cinema) - STEPHEN SCHAEFER

"GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK"

Rated PG

THREE STARS (out of four)

Before even the great Cronkite, Edward R. Murrow (David Strathairn) was the beloved newsman, a gravelly voiced knight-errant waging warfare against fascism and oppression, initially by broadcasting from London during the Blitz. After World War II, when McCarthyism fell across the land, Murrow took on the great beast himself, Wisconsin Sen. Joe McCarthy, played Zelig-style by the senator himself in archival footage. Though very narrowly focused, "Good Night, and Good Luck" is a relevant and well-meaning love letter to the trailblazing newsman. (At the Loews Boston Common and Harvard Square.) - JAMES VERNIERE"THE GOSPEL"

Rated PG

ONE STAR (out of four)

David (Boris Kodjoe) is the son of Pastor Fred Taylor (Clifton Powell), who commits more time and strength to his church than to his family. Distancing himself from his father after his mother's death, David hits it big as an r & b superstar. When Pastor Fred becomes ill, David returns home to Atlanta to take care of him, only to realize his church lies in jeopardy. Canceling upcoming tour dates, David organizes a charity event to save the church, learning important lessons along the way. It's a standard, decent idea but is executed in a contrived way that inspires the kind of awe that only comes from a bad place. (At Loews Boston Common.) - CHELSEA BAIN

"IN HER SHOES"

Rated PG-13

THREE STARS (out of four)

Rose Feller (Toni Collette) is a Princetoneducated attorney whose job is to pick up the pieces whenever her party girl sister Maggie (Cameron Diaz) gets herself into a new disaster. After Rose and Maggie have a disastrous falling out, Maggie leaves Philadelphia for a Florida assisted-living facility to find Ella Hirsch (Shirley MacLaine), the maternal grandmother she and Rose believed to be dead. Based on a novel by Jennifer Weiner, "In Her Shoes" is a good, solid sisterhood-is-powerful-when-it-isn't-hell-on-earth family fable. (At AMC Fenway, Loews Boston Common and suburban theaters.) - J.V.

"TWO FOR THE MONEY"

Rated R

ONE STAR (out of four)

Walter Abrams (Al Pacino) is a sports-betting impresario and obnoxious blowhard. Abrams offers phone-betting whiz Brandon Lang (Matthew McConaughey), whose dream of professional football stardom ended with a broken knee, a chance at the big time. The film is a grotesque failure and all the characters run the gamut from the merely unsympathetic to the absolutely loathesome. At the end of "Two for the Money," characters are on the verge of winning or losing millions of dollars, and you sit there thinking: Who cares what happens to these idiots? (At AMC Fenway, Loews Boston Common and suburban theaters.) - J.V.

"WALLACE & GROMIT: THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT"

Rated G

THREE AND ONE HALF STARS (out of four)

The annual Giant Vegetable Competition is approaching, and Wallace (voice of Peter Sallis) and Gromit are trapping hordes of strangely quirky rabbits and housing them in their basement. When an experiment involving "rabbit rehabiliation" goes horribly wrong, a mysterious beast of gigantic proportions begins a reign of vege-terror and Wallace and Gromit are commissioned to ride to the rescue. The film has enough wacky inventiveness and pure silliness to entertain both children and adults. (At AMC Fenway, Loews Boston Common and suburban theaters.) - J.V.

- Boston Herald film clips compiled by Heather V. Eng.

`Crimen' doesn't pay, but it sure is funny.(Arts and Lifestyle)

"EL CRIMEN PERFECTO"

Not rated. In Spanish with subtitles.

THREE STARS (out of four)

Bed salesman Rafael (Guillermo Toledo) expects to be named manager, but his rival, Don Antonio (Luis Varela), wins the bid. After Don suffers a sudden demise at Rafael's hands, Rafael and plain salesgirl Lourdes (Monice Cervera) dispose of the body. Things only get worse when Lourdes makes Rafael her sex slave and blackmails him. Caustically funny and about as romantic as a colonoscopy, "El Crimen Perfecto" is a cautionary fable about making our own hell on earth. (At Kendall Square Cinema) - STEPHEN SCHAEFER

"GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK"

Rated PG

THREE STARS (out of four)

Before even the great Cronkite, Edward R. Murrow (David Strathairn) was the beloved newsman, a gravelly voiced knight-errant waging warfare against fascism and oppression, initially by broadcasting from London during the Blitz. After World War II, when McCarthyism fell across the land, Murrow took on the great beast himself, Wisconsin Sen. Joe McCarthy, played Zelig-style by the senator himself in archival footage. Though very narrowly focused, "Good Night, and Good Luck" is a relevant and well-meaning love letter to the trailblazing newsman. (At the Loews Boston Common and Harvard Square.) - JAMES VERNIERE"THE GOSPEL"

Rated PG

ONE STAR (out of four)

David (Boris Kodjoe) is the son of Pastor Fred Taylor (Clifton Powell), who commits more time and strength to his church than to his family. Distancing himself from his father after his mother's death, David hits it big as an r & b superstar. When Pastor Fred becomes ill, David returns home to Atlanta to take care of him, only to realize his church lies in jeopardy. Canceling upcoming tour dates, David organizes a charity event to save the church, learning important lessons along the way. It's a standard, decent idea but is executed in a contrived way that inspires the kind of awe that only comes from a bad place. (At Loews Boston Common.) - CHELSEA BAIN

"IN HER SHOES"

Rated PG-13

THREE STARS (out of four)

Rose Feller (Toni Collette) is a Princetoneducated attorney whose job is to pick up the pieces whenever her party girl sister Maggie (Cameron Diaz) gets herself into a new disaster. After Rose and Maggie have a disastrous falling out, Maggie leaves Philadelphia for a Florida assisted-living facility to find Ella Hirsch (Shirley MacLaine), the maternal grandmother she and Rose believed to be dead. Based on a novel by Jennifer Weiner, "In Her Shoes" is a good, solid sisterhood-is-powerful-when-it-isn't-hell-on-earth family fable. (At AMC Fenway, Loews Boston Common and suburban theaters.) - J.V.

"TWO FOR THE MONEY"

Rated R

ONE STAR (out of four)

Walter Abrams (Al Pacino) is a sports-betting impresario and obnoxious blowhard. Abrams offers phone-betting whiz Brandon Lang (Matthew McConaughey), whose dream of professional football stardom ended with a broken knee, a chance at the big time. The film is a grotesque failure and all the characters run the gamut from the merely unsympathetic to the absolutely loathesome. At the end of "Two for the Money," characters are on the verge of winning or losing millions of dollars, and you sit there thinking: Who cares what happens to these idiots? (At AMC Fenway, Loews Boston Common and suburban theaters.) - J.V.

"WALLACE & GROMIT: THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT"

Rated G

THREE AND ONE HALF STARS (out of four)

The annual Giant Vegetable Competition is approaching, and Wallace (voice of Peter Sallis) and Gromit are trapping hordes of strangely quirky rabbits and housing them in their basement. When an experiment involving "rabbit rehabiliation" goes horribly wrong, a mysterious beast of gigantic proportions begins a reign of vege-terror and Wallace and Gromit are commissioned to ride to the rescue. The film has enough wacky inventiveness and pure silliness to entertain both children and adults. (At AMC Fenway, Loews Boston Common and suburban theaters.) - J.V.

- Boston Herald film clips compiled by Heather V. Eng.

`Crimen' doesn't pay, but it sure is funny.(Arts and Lifestyle)

"EL CRIMEN PERFECTO"

Not rated. In Spanish with subtitles.

THREE STARS (out of four)

Bed salesman Rafael (Guillermo Toledo) expects to be named manager, but his rival, Don Antonio (Luis Varela), wins the bid. After Don suffers a sudden demise at Rafael's hands, Rafael and plain salesgirl Lourdes (Monice Cervera) dispose of the body. Things only get worse when Lourdes makes Rafael her sex slave and blackmails him. Caustically funny and about as romantic as a colonoscopy, "El Crimen Perfecto" is a cautionary fable about making our own hell on earth. (At Kendall Square Cinema) - STEPHEN SCHAEFER

"GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK"

Rated PG

THREE STARS (out of four)

Before even the great Cronkite, Edward R. Murrow (David Strathairn) was the beloved newsman, a gravelly voiced knight-errant waging warfare against fascism and oppression, initially by broadcasting from London during the Blitz. After World War II, when McCarthyism fell across the land, Murrow took on the great beast himself, Wisconsin Sen. Joe McCarthy, played Zelig-style by the senator himself in archival footage. Though very narrowly focused, "Good Night, and Good Luck" is a relevant and well-meaning love letter to the trailblazing newsman. (At the Loews Boston Common and Harvard Square.) - JAMES VERNIERE"THE GOSPEL"

Rated PG

ONE STAR (out of four)

David (Boris Kodjoe) is the son of Pastor Fred Taylor (Clifton Powell), who commits more time and strength to his church than to his family. Distancing himself from his father after his mother's death, David hits it big as an r & b superstar. When Pastor Fred becomes ill, David returns home to Atlanta to take care of him, only to realize his church lies in jeopardy. Canceling upcoming tour dates, David organizes a charity event to save the church, learning important lessons along the way. It's a standard, decent idea but is executed in a contrived way that inspires the kind of awe that only comes from a bad place. (At Loews Boston Common.) - CHELSEA BAIN

"IN HER SHOES"

Rated PG-13

THREE STARS (out of four)

Rose Feller (Toni Collette) is a Princetoneducated attorney whose job is to pick up the pieces whenever her party girl sister Maggie (Cameron Diaz) gets herself into a new disaster. After Rose and Maggie have a disastrous falling out, Maggie leaves Philadelphia for a Florida assisted-living facility to find Ella Hirsch (Shirley MacLaine), the maternal grandmother she and Rose believed to be dead. Based on a novel by Jennifer Weiner, "In Her Shoes" is a good, solid sisterhood-is-powerful-when-it-isn't-hell-on-earth family fable. (At AMC Fenway, Loews Boston Common and suburban theaters.) - J.V.

"TWO FOR THE MONEY"

Rated R

ONE STAR (out of four)

Walter Abrams (Al Pacino) is a sports-betting impresario and obnoxious blowhard. Abrams offers phone-betting whiz Brandon Lang (Matthew McConaughey), whose dream of professional football stardom ended with a broken knee, a chance at the big time. The film is a grotesque failure and all the characters run the gamut from the merely unsympathetic to the absolutely loathesome. At the end of "Two for the Money," characters are on the verge of winning or losing millions of dollars, and you sit there thinking: Who cares what happens to these idiots? (At AMC Fenway, Loews Boston Common and suburban theaters.) - J.V.

"WALLACE & GROMIT: THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT"

Rated G

THREE AND ONE HALF STARS (out of four)

The annual Giant Vegetable Competition is approaching, and Wallace (voice of Peter Sallis) and Gromit are trapping hordes of strangely quirky rabbits and housing them in their basement. When an experiment involving "rabbit rehabiliation" goes horribly wrong, a mysterious beast of gigantic proportions begins a reign of vege-terror and Wallace and Gromit are commissioned to ride to the rescue. The film has enough wacky inventiveness and pure silliness to entertain both children and adults. (At AMC Fenway, Loews Boston Common and suburban theaters.) - J.V.

- Boston Herald film clips compiled by Heather V. Eng.