After playing supporting roles in hit comedies like Knocked Up and Tropic Thunder, Jay Baruchel finally gets his time in the spotlight this March in both live-action and animation. At the end of the month, Baruchel will voice the lead character in How to Train Your Dragon, but first he stars in She’s Out of My League as the average, nerdy guy who somehow wins the heart of the hot girl. At least, I think he does. I just saw the movie and I’ve pretty much forgotten about it already.

Green Zone is a new Iraq war thriller that couldn’t have planned its release date any better. Being released wide on March 12th, the movie hits theaters just five days after another Iraq war movie, The Hurt Locker, took home the Oscar for Best Picture. The movie’s marketing team, however, has taken a different tack. They are focusing on the collaboration between director Paul Greengrass and star Matt Damon, whose two previous collaborations resulted in The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum, two of the best and most popular action movies in the past decade. Whereas those movies were pure entertainment, however, Green Zone has a decidedly more political agenda. And I find it to be the best American movie released so far this year

The French drama Un prophete, or A Prophet, is now arriving in the United States after already taking the rest of the world by storm. An Oscar nominee for best foreign language film, A Prophet has already earned that prize at the British Academy Awards, following its Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. The American trailer for the film opens with a quote from the London Times calling it “as epic as The Godfather. A must see.” I couldn’t have said it better myself. I do hope it is able to find an audience here in the States. It certainly deserves one.