Ratings and running times are in parentheses; foreign films have English subtitles. Full reviews of all current releases:nytimes.com/movies.
‘A.C.O.D.’ (R, 1:27) This unfunny comedy involves a guy (the predictably likable Adam Scott) who is mooning over his parents’ divorce decades later. They’re monumentally annoying, granted, but then so too is this movie. Stuart Zicherman directs from a script he wrote with Ben Karlin. (Manohla Dargis)
‘Baggage Claim’ (PG-13, 1:36) In David E. Talbert’s bland romantic comedy, a flight attendant (Paula Patton) looks for a marriageable mate by arranging chance encounters with ex-boyfriends through the help of two friends (Adam Brody and Jill Scott). (Nicolas Rapold)
★ ‘Blue Jasmine’ (PG-13, 1:38) A brilliant, shattering Cate Blanchett plays a wealthy woman brought devastatingly low — think of Ruth Madoff by way of Blanche DuBois — in Woody Allen’s most sustained and satisfying film since “Match Point.” The excellent, characteristically Allen-eclectic cast includes Alec Baldwin, Sally Hawkins, Louis C.K., Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Dice Clay, Peter Sarsgaard and Michael Stuhlbarg. (Dargis)
‘Captain Phillips’ (PG-13, 2:14) In his latest, the director Paul Greengrass revisits the true story of Richard Phillips (Tom Hanks), an American taken hostage in 2009 by Somalis who commandeered his cargo ship in the Indian Ocean. Surprising and satisfyingly complex, it opens as a tale of men and work, then revs up into a camera-shuddering thriller, only to deepen. It’s a tough, political look at power and the wretched of the earth. (Dargis)
‘CBGB’ (R, 1:41) The story of the late, lamented New York punk-rock club in its early days, with Alan Rickman as its owner, Hilly Kristal. Worth seeing only if you don’t care about music, history, New York or movies. (A. O. Scott)
‘Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2’ (PG, 1:35) The food on Swallow Falls island comes to life and has an appetite. Lacking the clever characterization and plot of the previous animated feature, this sequel about an island of living food products instead offers beautiful color, almost psychedelic bits of plotting and some of the weirdest cute critters (a pet strawberry and a family of emoji-style marshmallows) in memory. (Miriam Bale)
‘Design Is One’ (No rating, 1:20) A smart, information-rich yet sometimes clunky documentary on the designers Lella and Massimo Vignelli, an Italian couple based in New York who have worked in diverse fields with a unifying, modern aesthetic. (Bale)
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