Opening Friday, Oscar - not pirate - gold

If you’re a movie fan — and if you weren’t, why would you be reading this? — you know that the big opening tomorrow is the fourth installment in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” series. Not sure about you, but I thought the series peaked halfway through the second one. Why they decided to do a fourth one, aside from providing a role for Penelope Cruz, I can’t figure.

But another opening might prove far more interesting. The winner of the 2010 Oscar for Best Foreign Language film, the Danish production “In a Better World,” is opening at AMC River’s Park Square Theatres.

Here is what some critics are saying:

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel : “A most deserving Oscar winner and a film that could provoke discussion anywhere it is shown, anywhere people of any age are being bullied.”

Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post : “An ethically ambitious, morally thoughtful - and deeply vexing - drama about the fragility of civil order and the menace of the lawless.”

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald : “Asks worthwhile questions about how fathers can best lead their sons, about the expectations placed on men by society and about their struggles with their inner violent impulses, which can lay so dormant and unnoticed, then, in a frightening rush, explode.”

Can’t wait.

Below : The trailer for “In a Better World.”