“The Incredible Hulk”
*** RATING | Edward Norton plays scientist Bruce Banner in the more interesting era in Hulk history — his years on the run, on the road, an oddball odyssey for a man haunted by what happens when he loses his temper, hunted by the military that helped create him. It’s been five years since the “gamma ray poisoning” that turns Banner into the Hulk. He’s been on the run, living off the grid, e-mailing fellow scientists, trying out cures and staying out of the reach of the Army, which wants to clone him as a “super soldier.” The digital Hulk is shown in glimpses, in the dark. The Jekyll-to-Hyde transformation, when it comes, is a doozy. PG-13. 1 hour, 54 minutes. Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
“Flight of the Red Balloon”
*** RATING | The contemporary Paris of Hou Hsaio Hsien’s “Flight of the Red Balloon” is already stirred-up enough, at least in the lives of the helium observer’s main interests, a frazzled single mom named Suzanne (Juliette Binoche) and her young son Simon (Simon Iteanu). The balloon, then, just kind of shows up and hangs, perhaps as a comforting reminder that, no matter how much everyday trials and frustrations weigh on people, they should remember that they’re not alone. That also seems to be the function of the film’s other main character, Song (Song Feng). A film student from Taiwan, she takes a job as Simon’s babysitter while his mom busily pursues doing voice work for puppet theater. Hou made a great effort to shoot “Red Balloon” in the City of Light’s nontouristy districts. He’s still managed to make an absolutely gorgeous film, but the greater effect is one of real life being lived — by the Parisians, anyway — not some traveler’s or even filmmaker’s romanticized idea. Not rated. 1 hour, 53 minutes. Bob Strauss, Los Angeles Daily News
“Stuck”
** 1/2 RATING | A nurse — high on Ecstasy, her hair in cornrows, checking her cellphone — hit a homeless guy with her car one night. The homeless guy remains lodged in her windshield, parked in her garage, while she has sex with her boyfriend and shows up for work at an elder-care facility, refusing to call the police or apply her medical skills. R. 1 hour, 26 minutes. Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
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