If you don’t celebrate Christmas, or if you do but you’ve had enough for today, you’ve got options. Check out our roundup of Chinatown Chinese restaurants open today.
Crazy Heart opens at Century 12 and CineArts 6, Landmark’s Century Centre, and River East 21; “Jeff Bridges finds the perfect vehicle for his lazy charm and bitter irony in the role of Bad Blake, a washed-up country star trying to climb out of the bottle and put his life back together,” writes J.R. Jones.
The sardonic, minimalist Romanian drama Police, Adjective, and Jacques Tati’s 1953 classic Mr. Hulot’s Holiday screen at the Music Box.
Almodovar’s latest screens at multiple venues, as does the highly recommended The Young Victoria. And, of course, Avatar (“watching it, I began to understand how people in 1933 must have felt when they saw King Kong“) screens all over the place.