Movies & shakers: 'Green Zone,' 'Prophet'

Prison crime boss César (Niels Arestrup), left, and budding kingpin Malik (Tahar Rahim) in "A Prophet."  (Sony Pictures Classics)

It's Friday night (OK afternoon, but close enough) and you just got paid.  What's the hot movie to see?

Well, that's two questions this weekend.

"Green Zone," starring recent Academy Award nominee Matt Damon ("Invictus") and directed by Damon's "Bourne" collaborator Paul Greengrass, ranks as the hottest entry at your local multiplex this weekend.

It wouldn't be my first choice, however.  Click here for the review and the reasons why.

I'd line up down at the end of the hall or head over to the art house to see "A Prophet," the scalding prison crime drama imported from France.  Click herefor the review of the foreign film Oscar nominee that took Grand Prix honors at the Cannes Film Festival last year.

If you're thinking mainstream, your choices include "Remember Me,"which features "Twilight's" Robert Pattinson in a romantic-drama with Emilie de Ravin, the romantic-comedy "She's Out of My League" and "Our Family Wedding,"a comedy starring Forest Whitaker and America Ferrera.

Let's just say, for a second, that you love offbeat foreign films.  I've got the quirky Romanian import for you.  Seek out "Police, Adjective" and experience a couple of days in the life of a conflicted undercover narcotics cop with a conscience.  Here's the review.