Ratings by the Motion Picture Association of America are: (G) for general audiences; (PG) parental guidance urged because of material possibly unsuitable for children; (PG-13) parents are strongly cautioned to give guidance for attendance of children younger than 13; (R) restricted, younger than 17 admitted only with parent or adult guardian; (NC-17) no one younger than 17 admitted.

"Bad Johnson" - An inveterate womanizer gets his comeuppance when his penis mysteriously leaves his body and takes human form. With Cam Gigandet, Nick Thune and Jamie Chung. Written by Jeff Tetreault. Directed by Huck Botko. (1:28) NR.

"Belle" - A biographical drama about Dido Elizabeth Belle, the mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy admiral, as she navigates 18th century British high society. With Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson, Emily Watson and Sarah Gadon. Written by Misan Sagay. Directed by Amma Asante. (1:45) PG-13.

"Bicycling With Moliere" - A French soap opera star embarrassed by his fame approaches his friend, a curmudgeonly fellow actor, to stage a production of Moliere's "The Misanthrope." With Fabrice Luchini and Lambert Wilson. Written and directed by Philippe Le Guay. In French and Italian, with English subtitles. Strand Releasing (1:44) NR.

"Breastmilk" - A documentary about the cultural impact of and social debates surrounding the act of breastfeeding. Directed by Dana Ben-Ari. (1:31) NR.

"Broken" - A hardworking father transforms into a killer to seek revenge on the teenagers who raped and killed his daughter. With Jung Jae-young and Lee Sung-min. Written and directed by Lee Jung-ho. In Korean with English subtitles. (2:02) NR.

"Chapman" - A young man returns home to confront the checkered past he left behind after a tragedy destroyed a childhood friendship. With Jesse Johnson, Chris Masterson and Christine Woods. Written and directed by Justin Owensby. (1:24) NR.

"Chef" - Having quit his job at a prominent restaurant over refusing to compromise his creative integrity, a chef teams with his ex-wife and son to start his own food truck. With Jon Favreau, Sofia Vergara and John Leguizamo. Written and directed by Favreau. (1:55) NR.

"Chinese Puzzle" - A heartsick Parisian writer follows the mother of his two children to New York City to be near his kids in this sequel to "L'Augerge Espagnole" and "Russian Dolls." With Romain Duris, Audrey Tatou, Cecile De France and Kelly Reilly. Written and directed by Cedric Klapisch. In English and French, with English subtitles. (1:57) R.

"Cyber-Seniors" - A documentary chronicling senior citizens as they learn how to use the Internet from teenage mentors. Directed by Saffron Cassaday. (1:15) NR.

"DamNation" - A documentary about the changing attitude toward large dams and their environmental impact in the U.S. Directed by Ben Knight and Travis Rummel. (1:27) NR.

"Decoding Annie Parker" - Two women - a geneticist and a cancer patient who lost her mother and sister to the disease - devote their lives to proving a link between heredity and cancer. With Helen Hunt, Samantha Morton and Aaron Paul. Written by Adam Bernstein, Steven Bernstein and Michael Moss. Directed by Steven Bernstein. (1:31) R.

"Devil's Knot" - The murder of three young children leads to a controversial trial of three teenagers accused of committing the crime as part of a satanic ritual in this drama based on the true story of the West Memphis Three. With Colin Firth, Reese Witherspoon and Amy Ryan. Written by Paul Harris Boardman and Scott Derrickson. Directed by Atom Egoyan. (1:55) NR.

"Documented" - A documentary about Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas and his journey as an undocumented child immigrant from the Philippines. Directed by Vargas. (1:29) NR.

"Don Peyote" - After an unpleasant encounter with a homeless man preaching that the end is near, an unemployed stoner becomes obsessed with 2012 doomsday theories and decides to make a documentary on the subject while his fiancee is busy planning their wedding. With Dan Fogler, Josh Duhamel and Jay Baruchel. Written and directed by Dan Fogler and Michael Canzoniero. (1:38) NR.

"The Double" - A timid office worker's life is turned upside down by the appearance of a new hire who looks just like him but is otherwise his polar opposite. With Jesse Eisenberg, Mia Wasikowska and Wallace Shawn. Written by Richard Ayoade and Avi Korine. Directed by Ayoade. (1:33) R.

"Farmland" - A documentary following the lives of six young ranchers and farmers. Directed by James Moll. (1:17) NR.

"Fed Up" - A documentary about the alarming spread of childhood obesity in the U.S. and the negligence of the food industry. Directed by Stephanie Soechtig. Narrated by Katie Couric. (1:39) PG.

"For No Good Reason" - A documentary portrait of the British artist Ralph Steadman, best known for his work with the author Hunter S. Thompson. Directed by Charlie Paul. (1:29) R.

"Friended to Death" - After being fired from his dream job and ditched by his best friend, a social-media junkie fakes his death online to see who will show up at his funeral, and his scheme begins snowballing out of control. With Ryan Hansen, Zach McGowan and James Immekus. Written and directed by Sarah Smick. (1:34) R.

"God's Pocket" - A man tries to bury his crazy stepson quietly after he's killed in a supposed construction accident and no one in their working-class neighborhood seems to be sorry he's gone, but the boy's mother demands the truth. With Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christina Hendricks and Richard Jenkins. Written by John Slattery and Alex Metcalf. Directed by Slattery. (1:28) R.

"Half of a Yellow Sun" - Two twin sisters from a wealthy Nigerian family return to their newly independent homeland in the 1960s after an expensive English education and pursue very different paths, then become caught up in the Nigerian civil war. With Thandie Newton, Anika Noni Rose and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Written and directed by Biyi Bandele. (1:53) R.

"Hanna Ranch" - A documentary about cattleman Kirk Hanna and his struggle to protect a once-prominent way of life in Colorado. Directed by Mitch Dickman. (1:13) NR.

"How We Got Away With It" - A young man and his friends react violently to an unexpected tragedy during their annual summer reunion. With McCaleb Burnett, Cassandra Freeman and Jon Lindstrom. Written by Lindstrom, Jeff Barry and McCaleb Burnett. Directed by Lindstrom. (1:30) NR.

"Ida" - In 1962 Poland, an 18-year-old orphan preparing to become a nun at the convent where she has lived since being orphaned as a child learns that she has a living aunt she must visit before taking her vows, and their meeting leads to startling revelations. With Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska and Dawid Ogrodnik. Written by Pawel Pawlikowski and Rebecca Lenkiewicz. Directed by Pawlikowski. In Polish with English subtitles. (1:20) PG-13.

"The Immigrant" - Separated from her ill sister at Ellis Island in 1921, a Polish immigrant is released to the mean streets of Manhattan and falls prey to a conniving man who takes her in and forces her into prostitution. With Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix and Jeremy Renner. Written by James Gray and Ric Menello. Directed by Gray. (2 hrs.) R.

"Journey of a Female Comic" - A documentary about the Latina actress, writer, producer and TV personality Kiki Melendez. Directed by Melendez and Erick M. Crespo. (1:28) PG.

"Llyn Foulkes One Man Band" - A documentary portrait of the idiosyncratic Los Angeles-based artist and musician Llyn Foulkes shot over seven years. Directed by Tamar Halpern and Chris Quilty. (1:28) NR.

"Mr. Jones" - An artist couple who have just moved to a remote cabin to focus on their work become curious about their new neighbor, a famously reclusive artist who is best left alone. With Sarah Jones, Jon Foster and Mark Steger. Written and directed by Karl Mueller. (1:24) PG-13.

"The M Word" - At a struggling Los Angeles TV station, a children's show actress leads her female colleagues as new management arrives from New York on a cost-cutting mission. With Tanna Frederick, Michael Imperioli and Gregory Harrison. Written and directed by Henry Jaglom. (1:51) R.

"A Night in Old Mexico" - Forced to abandon his ranch and land, an elderly man hightails it to Mexico, with the grandson he has just met riding shotgun to learn more about him. With Robert Duvall, Jeremy Irvine and Angie Cepeda. Written by Bill Wittliff. Directed by Emilio Aragon. (1:44) NR.

"Now: In the Wings on a World Stage" - A documentary following Kevin Spacey and the Bridge Project Company as they stage more than 200 performances of Shakespeare's "Richard III" across three continents. Directed by Jeremy Whelehan. (1:33) NR.

"Palo Alto" - Three high school students - a shy, sensitive soccer player, an introspective artist, and his unpredictable best friend - navigate teenage ennui and impending adulthood. With Emma Roberts, Jack Kilmer and James Franco. Written and directed by Gia Coppola. (1:38) R.

"Queen Margot" - A new restoration of the 1994 historical drama about a young queen trapped in an arranged marriage against the backdrop of a religious war between Catholics and Protestants. With Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil and Virna Lisi. Written by Daniele Thompson and Patrice Chereau. Directed by Chereau. In French with English subtitles. (2:39) R.

"Redwood Highway" - Estranged from her family and unsatisfied with her life in a retirement community in Oregon, an elderly woman treks 80 miles on foot to the coast to attend her granddaughter's wedding as an unexpected guest. With Shirley Knight and Tom Skerritt. Written by Gary Lundgren and James Twyman. Directed by Lundgren. (1:30) PG-13.

"The Retrieval" - On the outskirts of the Civil War, a fatherless 13-year-old black boy who survives by working with a white bounty hunter finds himself on the run with a freedman with a price on his head. With Ashton Sanders, Tishuan Scott and Keston John. Written and directed by Chris Eska. (1:34) NR.

"Stage Fright" - A snobby musical theater camp is terrorized by a bloodthirsty masked killer. With Allie MacDonald, Douglas Smith and Brandon Uranowitz. Written and directed by Jerome Sable. (1:28) R.

"Tanzania: A Journey Within" - A documentary following two friends, a privileged young American woman and a Tanzanian scientist-philosopher, who embark on a life-changing journey across the East African nation. Directed by Sylvia Caminer. (1:42) NR.

"Unclaimed" - A documentary following a Vietnam veteran on a quest to uncover the true identity of a man claiming to be a Special Forces soldier living in a remote village in present-day Vietnam, decades after being listed MIA. Directed by Michael Jorgensen. (1:17) NR.

"Walk of Shame" - A resourceful reporter's one-night stand with a handsome stranger leaves her stranded the next morning without a phone, car, ID or money, and only eight hours before an important job interview. With Elizabeth Banks, James Marsden and Gillian Jacobs. Written and directed by Steven Brill. (1:32) R.

"Where We Started" - Two married strangers meet at a roadside motel one night, and as their initial attraction develops, they're forced to confront their reasons for crossing a line they know they shouldn't. With Matthew Brumlow and Cora Vander Broek. Written and directed by Chris Hansen. (1:33) NR.

"Wolf Creek 2" - Another unwitting tourist falls prey to a crazed serial killer in the Australian outback. With Ryan Corr, John Jarratt and Shannon Ashlyn. Written by Greg Mclean and Aaron Sterns. Directed by Mclean. (1:46) NR.

"Young and Beautiful" - After losing her virginity, a 17-year-old takes up a secret life as a call girl. With Marine Vacth, Geraldine Pailhas and Frederic Pierrot. Written and directed by Francois Ozon. In French with English subtitles. (1:34) NR.

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