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• David Denby: “Hanna,” “Arthur,” and “The Princess of Montpensier.”

The opening of Joe Wright’s entertainingly nutty action thriller, “Hanna,” comes close to outright parody. A fifteen-year-old girl tracks a reindeer through Finland’s northern woods and ice fields, her breath nearly freezing in midair. She brings the beast down with a bow . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “George, Nicholas, and Wilhelm.”

When Marie of Russia was about to give birth, her sister Alexandra, the Princess of Wales, wrote to her about getting the right nurse, “reminding her what had happened to Vicky’s son, ‘who came out wrong.’ ” The boy who came out wrong, Kaiser Wilhelm . . ....

• John Lahr: Nina Raine’s “Tribes” and Katori Hall’s “Hurt Village.”

8220;Silence is the unbearable repartee,” G. K. Chesterton once observed. In Nina Raine’s subtle and scintillating new play, “Tribes” (elegantly directed by David Cromer, at the Barrow Street Theatre), silence is the shadow that lends brilliance to the hubbub around the bohemian, intellectual upper . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “Voodoo Histories.”

Aaronovitch’s survey of conspiracy theories has a sense of humor about its subject, but only up to a point. If there is anyone he disapproves of more than, say, 9/11 Truthers or believers in the murder of Princess Diana (or of Marilyn Monroe or Vince Foster), it is . . ....

• Joan Acocella: David Gordon’s “Dancing Henry Five.”

David Gordon has always been postmodern dance’s premier minimalist. So you could say he was almost showing off when, in 2004, he took on Shakespeare’s “Henry V”—with its massed armies, its take-charge king, its pretty princess—and made his own . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Anthony Lane: “The Future,” “Another Earth,” and “Cowboys & Aliens.”

To call a movie “The Future” is, if you think about it, inspired. In any city where the film is playing, people will say to one another, “Have you seen ‘The Future’? ” If the title is doomed to cause misunderstanding, that is part of . . ....

• Books: “Verdi’s Shakespeare” review.

In the essays collected here, Wills examines how Verdi—who, though he did not read English, “adored Shakespeare”—composed and staged “Macbeth,” “Otello,” and “Falstaff,” all “solid masterpieces,” and the latter two “arguably the greatest things he . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “Contested Will.”

In this fascinating study, Shapiro, an English professor at Columbia, casts skepticism about the authorship of Shakespeare’s works as a “long footnote to the larger story of the way we read now” and traces shifting assumptions about the relation between art and autobiography. Some fifty alternative . . ....

• Anthony Lane: The long, strange history of 3-D.

Did you enjoy “Rottweiler”? How about “Bwana Devil” or “Black Lolita”? Maybe you preferred “International Stewardesses,” although you might know it under the more thoughtful title of “Supersonic Supergirls.” You will not need reminding that these are among the crowning . . ....

• Books: “William Golding.”

Carey’s thorough and illuminating biography, the first of Golding, also serves as a crucial introduction to the Nobel Prize-winning novelist’s output. Golding’s novels, which include “The Inheritors,” “Pincher Martin,” and “Darkness Visible,” have always stood in the . . ....

• David Denby: “Black Swan” and “Love and Other Drugs.”

Darren Aronofsky’s “Black Swan” is a luridly beautiful farrago—a violent fantasia that mixes the tensions of preparing a new production of “Swan Lake” with sex, blood, and horror-film flourishes. Natalie Portman is Nina, a soloist in a New York ballet company . . ....

• Books: “Three Stages of Amazement.”

Edgarian’s second novel follows an idealistic couple who want their marriage to be “a flexible, romantic sort of agreement” but find that it has become “a mousetrap.” Lena used to be a “nail-the-bastards” radio producer; now she cares for two . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “Three Stages of Amazement.”

Edgarian’s second novel follows an idealistic couple who want their marriage to be “a flexible, romantic sort of agreement” but find that it has become “a mousetrap.” Lena used to be a “nail-the-bastards” radio producer; now she cares for two . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Richard Brody: “My Man Godfrey,” “Sullivan’s Travels,” “Rock-a-Bye Baby,” on DVD.

paragraph class="noindent">The blithering rich at the center of many Depression-era white-tie-and-tails movies are depicted mainly as callous villains in Gregory La Cava’s comedy “My Man Godfrey” (new on DVD from Universal), from 1936. The title character, played by William Powell . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “Young Romantics.”

Hay examines the “turbulent communal existence” of the English Romantic poets, astutely parsing the intricate circumstances that led to this network’s distinctive creative output; she shows, for instance, that “Frankenstein” emerged not merely out of fireside “conversations about ghosts and galvanism” but . . ....

• Books: Victor Cha’s “The Impossible State” review.

8220;Industrialized,” “urbanized,” and “high tech” are not words one typically associates with North Korea. Yet, in the wake of the Second World War, as China and the U.S.S.R. vied for influence in the Korean peninsula, it was just that. Since then, political paranoia, economic . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Adam Kirsch: H. G. Wells’s writing and women.

Looking back on his life, at the age of sixty-five, H. G. Wells concluded that it could be written only as a comedy. “Imperfection and incompleteness are the certain lot of all creative workers,” he wrote in “Experiment in Autobiography,” his entertainingly candid memoir. &#8220 . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “Blood’s a Rover”

The final novel of Ellroy’s “Underworld U.S.A.” trilogy, following “American Tabloid” and “The Cold Six Thousand,” is a fittingly crazed and violent account of the years 1968 to 1972. Alternating chapters follow three henchmen with ties to a labyrinth of interconnected schemes . . ....

• John Lahr: Nina Arianda in “Born Yesterday.”

When it was first produced, in 1946, Garson Kanin’s “Born Yesterday” made a star of Judy Holliday, who played Billie Dawn, the bimbo turned bookworm. The splendid new revival, directed by Doug Hughes at the Cort, makes a star of Nina Arianda, in her scintillating Broadway . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “The Great Leader” review.

Harrison’s novel follows a longtime Michigan State Police detective whose hobby in retirement is tracking down the founder of a religious cult—the Great Leader of the title. “I’m investigating the evil connection between religion, money, and sex,” he jokes. Harrison, a poet . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Anthony Lane: “Robin Hood.”

What do you get if you mix “Gladiator,” “The Return of Martin Guerre,” “Saving Private Ryan,” “Elizabeth,” “Troy,” “The Seventh Seal,” and a hundred buckets of mud? The answer is “Robin Hood”—the latest version . . ....

• Books: “Walks with Men.”

Beattie’s novella is set in the Manhattan of literary aspirants’ dreams: a recent Harvard graduate, Jane, takes up with Neil, a man twenty-three years her senior, who provides an education in food, clothing, and sex. “You’re smart,” he says, “but you . . ....

• Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi: “Gilgul.”

8220;You know,” she said almost shyly, “that I have the ability, if you wish, to look into your eyes and tell you when you will die?” “No, I didn’t realize you could do that.” He hesitated for a moment. “And I . . . (Subscription required.)...

• David Denby: “Source Code” and “Meek’s Cutoff.”

8220;Source Code,” a techno-thriller about a dead man who tries to save Chicago from nuclear destruction, is much more enjoyable than “Inception,” “The Adjustment Bureau,” “Limitless,” and other fantastical jaunts of recent seasons. The movie may begin as a sci-fi . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Anthony Lane: “The Trip” and “Road to Nowhere.”

To those expecting a mind-warping voyage through altered states, Michael Winterbottom’s “The Trip” will come as a disappointment. The time is now, the trip of the title is a gentle motoring holiday, and the setting is the North of England, whose hills are not in . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Goings on About Town: Classical Music

PageBreak --> OPERA METROPOLITAN OPERA Nina Stemme, a commanding Wagnerian, returns to take up the title role in Strauss’s “Ariadne auf Naxos,” a revival of the enchanting Elijah Moshinsky production from 1993, which also features Kathleen Kim (who added coloratura sparkle to the recent “Tales . . ....

• George Saunders: “Escape from Spiderhead.”

8220;Drip on?” Abnesti said over the P.A. “What’s in it?” I said. “Hilarious,” he said. “Acknowledge,” I said. Abnesti used his remote. My MobiPak™ whirred. Soon the Interior Garden looked really nice. Everything seemed super-clear. I said out . . ....

• James Wood: Teju Cole’s prismatic début novel, “Open City.”

Publishers now pitch their books like Hollywood concepts, so Teju Cole’s first novel, “Open City” (Random House; $25), is being offered as especially appealing to “readers of Joseph O’Neill and Zadie Smith,” and written in a prose that “will remind . . ....