Our critic's picks

2 Days in New York

Julie Delpy stars in - and writes and directs - the sequel to her 2007 relationship comedy,

2 Days in Paris

, this time with a new beau, played by Chris Rock, and a new city for the cultural and familial clashes to take place, and take off. Ridiculously charming.

R

Ruby Sparks Zoe Kazan is the title character, and the writer of this ingenious fantasy romance, about a young, successful novelist (Paul Dano) who taps out a few paragraphs about a dreamy girl on his typewriter, and then suddenly the dreamy girl appears in his house, his life. It's sweet and whimsical, but more than that, too, examining the nature of relationships in perceptive ways. With Annette Bening, Antonio Banderas, Steve Coogan, and Elliott Gould. From the directors of Little Miss Sunshine. R

Searching for Sugar Man A surprising, inspiring documentary about Rodriguez, a forgotten singer/songwriter who recorded a pair of great, and greatly overlooked, albums in the early 1970s, and who - unbeknownst to him - became a star in South Africa, the apartheid nation cut off from the rest of the world. Revelatory, and full of songs that sound like classics. PG-13