Our critics' selections

My Dog Tulip

Paul and Sandra Fierlinger's beautifully drawn animation of J.R. Ackerley's singular memoir about his German shepherd combines the line of Saul Steinberg with the mordant wit of Vladimir Nabokov.

No MPAA rating

Secretariat As real-life horse breeder Penny Chenery, who bets the family farm while trying to save it, Diane Lane proves that a woman's place is in the winner's circle. With John Malkovich as Lucien Laurin, the colorful trainer she hires for the thoroughbred also known as Big Red. PG

The Social Network Director David Fincher and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin collaborated on this Facebook origin story, a near-perfect whodunit starring Jesse Eisenberg as the almost affectless Mark Zuckerberg and Andrew Garfield as his friend and Facebook cofounder Eduardo Saverin. R