Prospects for the Golden Globes next weekend are looking dismal, but at least we have another thrilling political debate!

New in theaters this week:

Bradley Steinbacher’s review of this week’s most exciting release, There Will Be Blood, appears in On Screen: “Tempering his usual fireworks, Paul Thomas Anderson has crafted a true American epic.” Also in On Screen: Charles Mudede’s preview of Northwest Film Forum’s series on the early work of Béla Tarr, which starts next Tuesday (“The most important thing that Tarr’s early movies have contributed to cinema is the art of the long conversation”), Lindy West on The Orphanage (“What exactly is a baby ghost going to DO to me after it crawls into my bed at night and I think it’s my handsome-ish husband? Cuddle me TO DEATH?”), and me on He Was a Quiet Man (it’s “efficiently directed, and the low-budget CGI—mostly devoted to animating Bob’s chatty pet fish—is admirably unobtrusive. But the script is a travesty”).

Limited Runs this week include a second week of Diva at SIFF Cinema, the locally produced experimental feature All My Love at NWFF, Blazing Saddles at Egyptian late nights, the Chinese male weepie Sunflower at Grand Illusion, and more. See Get Out for complete movie times.