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

SERAPHIM FALLS
PG-13, 99 minutes

Some will see the new Civil Warera drama “Seraphim Falls” as a tale of vengeance and hatred. That it surely is, but others will see something more profound churning away underneath — nothing short of a metaphor for the human condition and a contemplation of its utter insignificance.

Carver (Liam Neeson) is a horse-riding, hat-wearing gang leader with a handful of gun-toting thugs riding alongside. We meet him as bullets are being fired and follow him as he chases his prey — through day and night, snow and desert. He is vengeance personified, willing to sacrifice sleep and food, not to mention the lives of his cohorts, in his insatiable quest for blood. Set in his sights is Gideon (Pierce Brosnan), a resourceful man whose legs never seem to stop moving and whose brain never stops thinking. He’s not just the perfect adversary; in several ways, he’s a superior one.

S. James Snyder (January 26)

REGULAR LOVERS
Unrated, 178 minutes

Anyone besotted with the allure of French cinema in the late 1960s will take to “Regular Lovers” like refined absinthe. Shot in 2004 and shown at the 2005 New York Film Festival, the film is celebrated French director Philippe Garrel’s remembrance of revolutions past — or, rather, an autobiographical flashback to the days and weeks after the failed populist uprisings in the Paris of May 1968.

Mr. Garrel’s son, François, plays a 20-year-old poet who evades the military draft and spends the rest of the film in a philosophical drift. The title alludes to his relationship to Lilie (Clotilde Hesme), a beautiful, slightly older sculptress who abides as an emotional focus — a prism through which to observe François and his circle as they grapple with their collective spiritual hangover.

Steve Dollar (January 19)

ALPHA DOG
R, 117 minutes

Somehow, Nick Cassavetes’s “Alpha Dog” manages to be both a funny stoner film and a brutal antidrug opus, an unlikely buddy tragedy that encourages us to identify and sympathize with — and condemn — a clique of young gangster wannabees as they make the biggest mistake of their lives. It’s a complicated mix of emotions, yet the movie draws us in with deceiving ease, inviting us along on the aimless, carefree romp of four teenage potheads. Unlike so many drug films, which follow the smalltime dealer as he traverses the standard greedy arc of the rich kingpin, “Alpha Dog” is less about wanting money than wanting to be macho.

S.J.S. (January 12)