“Surveillance”
A prairie highway in daylight couldn’t be more different from the cabin in the dark woods where movies similar to this brutal thriller so often unfurl. But that’s exactly where the mayhem occurs in director Jennifer Lynch and co-writer Kent Harper’s tale of serial killing and unreliable witnesses. Bill Pullman and Julia Ormond are strange and mesmerizing as FBI agents who arrive at a police station to interrogate three witnesses to carnage. The performances are sharp. And there’s a rough elegance in Peter Wunstorf’s camerawork. R. 1 hour, 30 minutes. Lisa Kennedy
“Hannah Montana: The Movie”
The movie version of the Disney TV series is made for girls aged 6-14 and no one else. And they’re gonna love it. If you were a 10-year-old girl, you would of course want to be small-town sweetheart Miley Stewart and/ or her secret pop-star alter ego, Hannah Montana. Miley Cyrus makes both characters so likably harmless and so attractively accessible, it’s hard not to be charmed. Just try to resist her endless supply of energy and moxie! Even when she gets a little petulant and carried away with her celebrity lifestyle in Los Angeles — which prompts a return to Tennessee for some hometown reprogramming. G. 1 hour, 39 minutes. Christy Lemire, The Associated Press“Absurdistan”
“Absurdistan” finally gives Eastern Bloc oligarchy the teen-hormone farce we’ve been waiting for. Set in a sort of backward post-Soviet village, this half-amusing, half- tedious allegory presents the story of Aya and Temelko, two Russian teens in love. All boy wants is to make love to girl. But as their penniless village’s drought persists, she and the overripe babushkas in town go on a sex strike they vow to maintain until water flows through the one rusty pipe. In Russian with English subtitles. Not rated. 1 hour, 25 minutes. Wesley Morris, The Boston Globe
