Our movie critic's picks of the week

Blind Chance, A Short Film About Killing The Bryn Mawr Film Institute's series on Polish cinema lands on two early titles from the late, great Krzysztof Kieslowski. Screening this Tuesday is Blind Chance (1981), in which a man runs to catch a train - three times, with the course of his life dramatically altered in each instance. That is, when he 1) is able to make it onto the train as it pulls out of the station, 2) fails to catch it and collides with a railway guard, and 3) misses the train but meets a woman standing on the platform. The Gwyneth Paltrow pic Sliding Doors is a rip . . . um, homage. On Tuesday, Jan. 27, there will be a screening of Kieslowski's A Short Film About Killing (1988), a long-form installment in the director's Decalogue series made for Polish television and based on the Ten Commandments. Neither should be missed. Bryn Mawr Film Institute, 824 W. Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr, 610-527-9898, www.brynmawrfilm.org.

Boyhood Basking in the glow of its Golden Globe wins and Oscar nominations, Richard Linklater's 12-years-in-the-making chronicle of a kid growing up, and the family that grows up with him, returns to theaters - the Ritz Bourse locally. It's also the main topic of conversation in Mark Maron's podcast interview with the ambitious, unpretentious, Austin-based filmmaker (www.wtfpod.com, episode 566).

Paddington A Bear Called Paddington, first published in 1958, launched Michael Bond's hugely popular series about an ursine immigrant from "darkest Peru" who winds up in London, adopted by the Brown family. The marmalade junkie in the blue duffle coat and red hat now has been brought to the big screen, computer-generated and voiced by Ben Whishaw in an otherwise live-action adaptation that stylistically owes as much to Wes Anderson as it does to the classic illustrations by Peggy Fortnum and R.W. Alley. Read the books, and then wonder what Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham, is doing in the movie, pretending to be a stuffy London husband and dad.