Wondering what else is in theaters this weekend? Here are four films recommended by The New York Sun’s critics that you can still catch around town.

BLOOD DIAMOND
R, 138 minutes

Many people, when they see misery around them, want to know why. But Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio), a smuggler who spends most of “Blood Diamond” racing through Sierra Leone’s civil war in pursuit of profit, has already got an explanation: “T.I.A.” It stands for “This Is Africa.” He abandoned all hope for this benighted part of the world long ago.

Many moviegoers these days reserve a similar, if markedly less tragic, cynicism for Hollywood: It will never make big, bighearted pictures like it used to. “Blood Diamond,” however, offers reason to believe. Directed by Edward Zwick and written by Charles Leavitt, it very nearly achieves that perfect balance of humanity and big-screen spectacle that many believe left American movies decades ago.

— Darrell Hartman (December 8)

FAMILY LAW
Unrated, 102 minutes S

In his first film, “The Lost Embrace” the director Daniel Burman focused on that significant moment in life when children recognize that their parents are human beings like themselves who have had, sometimes instructively M , many of the same experiences. The life passage marked by his hugely likeable new film, “Family Law,” is the much scarier moment when they recognize that they’re becoming their parents.

As he begins to involve himself more and more in his son’s life, a young lawyer finds that his own father is involving himself more and more in his. Mr. Burman’s film stops short of the point at which any life-changing decisions might or might not be made. It is enough for him to show his hero at the moment when the acceptance of his place in the progression of generations has ceased to hold any terrors for him.

— James Bowman (December 8)

CASINO ROYALE
PG-13, 144 minutes

Ian Fleming’s love letter to Cold War British hooliganism has finally been realized in a movie that offers up a 007 utterly faithful to the author’s intent. As the new James Bond, Daniel Craig is a thuggish gorilla trained to wear a tuxedo and chomp caviar so he can infiltrate high society with a Walther PPK tucked into his cummerbund. Not only does Mr. Craig’s Bond remorselessly murder for the Queen, but he does it with just the tiniest thimble of heart.

— John Devore (November 17)

DANCE PARTY, USA
Unrated, 65 minutes

If purity of intent counts for anything, then “Dance Party, USA” may be one of the best American films of the year. Shot for what looks like almost no budget, with a young cast of unknowns in Portland, Ore., the movie is a mere 65 minutes long and is filled with as much open, elliptical space between its characters as the thoughts they struggle to articulate.

Directed by Aaron Katz, a 25-year-old filmmaker based in Brooklyn, “Dance Party” trails a pair of high school kids through the groggy mornings and beer-sodden late nights of a Fourth of July weekend. Since Mr. Katz is very nearly a peer of his characters, his feel for their language and his choice in casting actors who can naturally embrace it gives the film a documentary feel. This is enhanced by loosely intimate camera work, which compensates for the movie’s washy color resolution with tight close-ups.

— Steve Dollar (November 15)