Director Martin Scorsese's latest organized-crime drama stars Leonardo DiCaprio as an undercover cop assigned to infiltrate a crime family run by Jack Nicholson. Also starring Matt Damon.

Rival workers (Dane Cook, Dax Shepard) at a discount retail club go to great lengths to outdo each other and win the affection of a new cashier (Jessica Simpson).

This movie, based on the fourth installment of Christian novelist Janette Oke's "Love Comes Softly" series, sees Missie (Erin Cottrell) and her family having their faith put to the test after a tragedy.

Helen Mirren stars as Queen Elizabeth II and Michael Sheen as Tony Blair in a behind-the-scenes look at the royal family after the death of Princess Diana.

Master filmmaker André Téchiné's exquisitely filmed story about unrequited love is a brilliant extended meditation on our faith in love's power to redeem us. It follows French engineer Antoine (Gérard Depardieu), who has spent 30 lonely years pining for his only love, Cécile (Catherine Deneuve), to Tangiers, where she lives with her husband, to claim her. 1 hr. 38 (adult themes, sexuality, nudity) - T.D.

Set in an otherworldly corner of northern Brazil, where dunes and tides randomly reconfigure the landscape, this multigenerational tale of love and loss, roots and restlessness centers on a mother and daughter - and then that daughter and her grown child. Like the place where they live, the relationships, too, change. A tour de force. 1 hr. 55 (sex, adult themes) - S.R.

Edward Norton stars as a master magician in late-19th-century Vienna whose sublime trickery gets him in trouble with a dastardly royal. A wonderful anachronism of a movie, with its clip-clopping horses, gaslit lanterns, and Hollywood stars (Paul Giamatti, Jessica Biel) elocuting in quasi-Euro accents. 1 hr. 49 (violence, adult themes) - S.R.

Easily one of the best computer-animated features to come out of Hollywood in a while, this creepy-crawly, freak-show yarn is also one of the weirdest. Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg oversaw the project about a house that swallows passers-by and the three young friends who try to do something about it. With the voices of Maggie Gyllenhaal, Steve Buscemi, Kathleen Turner and others. 1 hr. 31 (scares, adult language, themes) - S.R.

In this animated feature from the director of The Lion King, a 900-pound domesticated grizzly bear (voiced by Martin Lawrence) gets stuck in the woods as hunting season is about to begin. 1 hr. 29 (some rude humor, brief profanity) - W.S.

Anguished and heartfelt, Oliver Stone's film about real-life Port Authority officers trapped in the rubble on 9/11 is a hushed prayer of deliverance - for the officers, for their wives and families, and for the nation. 2 hrs. 9 (intense sequences of devastation and grief) - C.R.

Young Americans enlist in the French air corps before the United States threw itself into the first World War, hoping to learn to fly, combat tyranny, and maybe meet a pretty mademoiselle or two. Harmlessly romantic, with vintage air machines and computer-generated aerial battles. James Franco, Jean Reno and Jennifer Decker star. 2 hrs. 19 (violence, adult themes) - S.R.

Up-from-under tale starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as the L.A. probation officer who turns around the lives of juvenile delinquents by building teamwork and self-esteem skills on the football field. 2 hrs. 08 (domestic and gang violence, profanity) - C.R.

Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher star in this long, soggy tale of mentorship and courage set amid the ranks of the U.S. Coast Guard's elite Rescue Swimmers team. Lots of jumping into stormy seas to pull folks from sinking ships, and lots of deep stares into shot glasses, ruing the ones that got away. 2 hrs. 19 (profanity, barroom brawls, daring rescues, grueling training regimen, adult themes) -S.R.

Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Steve-O, and the lost boys are back with a fresh batch of dangerously self-destructive stunts. Like the original, it's sometimes funny and sometimes gross. 1 hr. 35 (crude and dangerous stunts, sexual content, nudity, profanity) - D.H.

Jet Li, the dazzler best known for his fleet footwork in "Hero," caps the kung fu chapter of his movie career with this appealing biography of Chinese martial-arts legend Huo Yuanjia. In Mandarin with English subtitles. 1 hr. 43 (one intense martial-arts sequence) - C.R.

The one where Bad Santa (Billy Bob Thornton) teaches Napoleon Dynamite (Jon Heder) how to walk like a man. Despite these appealingly unstable actors, Todd Phillips' caustic comedy is utterly predictable. 1 hr. 40 (profanity, sexual candor, cartoon violence) - C.R.

(1812 Productions) Emmanuelle Delpech- Ramey reprises her hit of the 2005 Fringe, with this story, told without words, of a woman who grows old and eccentric. Previews begin Friday, opens Oct. 10.

(Philadelphia Theatre Company) Jeffrey Hatcher's dark comedy about three senior-citizen murderers who live in a retirement community. Previews begin Friday, opens Oct. 11.

(Simpatico) Lee Blessing's metadrama about a woman who contracts AIDS and the playwright who is commissioned to tell her story. Previews Thursday, opens Friday.

(Wilma) A disturbing comedy by Martin McDonough about a writer whose unpublished stories seem replicated in a series of grisly murders. Previews begin Wednesday, opens Oct. 11.

(University of the Arts) Suzan-Lori Park's radical drama about a 19th-century woman called Venus Hottentot who becomes a freak-show star. Opens Friday.

(McCarter) Two mysterious men disturb the dreary calm in a seaside boardinghouse in the early Harold Pinter play. The famous Pinter silences are missing, weakening this production of a fascinating play. Through Oct. 15. - T.Z.

(Theatre Catlyst) Michael Friel's moving and entertaining play about growing up Catholic in East Falls reopens after its summer debut. Through Oct. 15. - T.Z.

(Prince) History of hip-hop told through the story of a boy who travels from Trinidad to Philadelphia, choreographed by local Clyde Evans Jr. Ends today.

(People's Light) A new translation of Molière's mordant comedy about a hypochondriac, skyrocketing medical costs, and a marriageable daughter. More high colonics than high farce. Through Oct. 22. - T.Z.

(Academy of Music) Six fine singers perform many songs that Ray Charles sang, but the production doesn't really take off until the very end of what is essentially a musical revue staged more like a long medley. Ends today. - H.S.

(Lantern) Three compelling performances enhance the power of Athol Fugard's play about a South African teenager and his changing relationship to two servants he's known through his life. At St. Stephen's Theater through next Sunday. - H.S.

(Society Hill Playhouse) Four excellent performers make this light musical approach to the change of life very entertaining theater. Open-ended. - D.J.K.

(Arden) The stage adaptation of this John Irving novel, whose young title character considers himself an instrument of God, receives an excellent production, but the story may be too faith-based and sentimental for some tastes. Through Oct.15 - T.Z.

(Merriam) The national touring production stars Richard Thomas and George Wendt in a solid, engrossing revival of a classic jury-room drama, crackling with important ideas. Ends today. - T.Z.

(Walnut) An inspired production bolsters this lighter-than-air musical rendition of The Front Page, giving the show a quantum boost from its so-so script and music. Through Oct. 22 - H.S.

Mercilessly funny satire about a tobacco industry lobbyist (Aaron Eckhart) unapologetically selling his wares, and, perhaps, his soul. Based on the Christopher Buckley novel, with William H. Macy, Maria Bello, Robert Duvall and Katie Holmes. 1 hr. 32 (profanity, sex, adult themes) - S.R.

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