This week's new films

Restrepo (15) (Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger, 2010, US) 94 mins This powerful frontline Afghanistan doc has been compared to a real-life Hurt Locker but here, war is all difficulty and very little glory. Closely observing a US company in the hostile Korengal Valley, it's a mix of tense combat, bunker downtime and tricky "hearts and minds" local engagement efforts, interspersed with moving post-combat reflection. It all leaves you with a great deal of respect for the soldiers, and very little for the people who put them there. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (12A) (Oliver Stone, 2010, US) Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf, Carey Mulligan. 133 mins Nice timing for the return of Gordon Gekko, but has the lizard changed his spots? He's now preaching that greed isn't good, and taking in young buck LaBeouf for dubious reasons, in a flawed but fun sequel. Mr Nice (18) (Bernard Rose, 2010, UK) Rhys Ifans, Chloë Sevigny, David Thewlis. 121 mins Ifans at his most likable as the incorrigible real-life dope dealer who got mixed up with the IRA, MI5 and the DEA, among others, even as he temporarily lived the high life. Neither rose-tinted nor earth-shaking, it's a cheery pro-marijuana missive. Jackboots On Whitehall (12A) (Edward & Rory McHenry, 2010, UK) Ewan McGregor, Rosamund Pike, Richard E Grant. 91 mins Team America meets Adam & Joe in this silly animated-action-figure send-up of the great British war movie. Pub humour and movie references whizz past as the Nazis invade Britain, and McGregor's farmhand mounts the resistance, with a little help from some all-star allies. A Town Called Panic (PG) (Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, 2009, Bel/Lux/Fra) 75 mins Toy Story meets Wallace & Gromit in another ingenious, anarchic animation, this time involving the plastic characters Cowboy, Indian and Horse, who live together. An attempt to buy Horse a barbecue for a birthday present leads to a surreally demented adventure. Life As We Know It (12A) (Greg Berlanti, 2010, US) Katherine Heigl, Josh Duhamel. 114 mins Yet another volume for the Heigl's World Of Romcom Inanity boxed set. This time her deceased control-freak friends force her to adopt their baby and shack up with Josh Duhamel. Some girls get all the luck. Freight (18) (Stuart St Paul, 2010, UK) Billy Murray, Craig Fairbrass, Danny Midwinter. 90 mins The hard men of Leeds teach Russian sex traffickers some respect in an unsavoury thriller that's more interested in the punch-ups than the social justice. Limited screenings. The Death And Life Of Charlie St Cloud (12A) (Burr Steers, 2010, US) Zac Efron, Charlie Tahan, Amanda Crew. 99 mins Efron tempts his fans (and no one else) into supernatural territory with a nonsensical melodrama of brotherly loyalty and "letting go". We've let go already. Out next week Vampires Suck Scary Movie-style pastiche of the Twilight movies, and anything else they could make a joke out of. Despicable Me Steve Carell voices a supervillain who's not as hard-hearted as he likes to think in this lively Pixar-esque animation. Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow Sophie Fiennes's documentary on German artist Anselm Kiefer and his monumental outdoor work in the south of France. The Social Network David Fincher turns the Facebook phenomenon into a power parable for the 21st century, with Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg. Coming soon In two weeks … Bruce Willis and Helen Mirren play retired CIA agents in RED … Olivier Assayas tracks arch-terrorist Carlos … In three weeks … Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis play grave robbers Burke And Hare … Julianne Moore and Annette Bening in The Kids Are All Right … In a month … Child-vampire remake Let Me In … Mike Leigh's middle-age study Another Year …