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Canadians can celebrate a foreign-language nomination for ‘War Witch’ and music nods for ‘Life of Pi’ composer Michael Danna

Gnarly narratives in Cloud Atlas, Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, Chasing Mavericks, and The Sessions

There will be blood—in the Amazonian quests of Natalie Portman, Cate Blanchett, Saoirse Ronan and AnnaSophia Robb

This weekend offers three comedy options, each occupying a different spot on the sliding scale between credible and preposterous. At the silly end of spectrum, there’s Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, starring multi-culturalism’s answer to Cheech and Chong. It’s a stoner movie/homeland security satire designed for adolescent boys of all ages. The other two pictures are both romantic comedies from the viewpoint of smart, single, thirtysomething women who are rapidly losing their patience. Then She Found Me is the more mature of the two, and it’s really more of a dramedy, reflecting the angst and edge of its star and progenitor, Helen Hunt, who’s making her directorial debut. Baby Mama, hatched from the ever-percolating talent pool of Saturday Night Live, is a high-concept piece—a test-tube comedy that has its share of laugh-out-loud moments but never escapes the limitations of its sketch-comedy roots. In fact, none of these movies, live up to the talents of the actors involved.