BRIDESMAIDS ★★★

(HBO on Comcast) A wedding comedy with Kristen Wiig as a woman in a funk who starts to freak out when her best friend (Maya Rudolph) gets married. The movie, which Wiig co-wrote and Paul Feig directed, seems bound to drown in loopy gags and aggressive misadventure. But at its core is the story of the strains a wedding puts on some friendships. That feels as true as all the gross business is funny. (R; runs through Sept. 3)

THE COUNTERFEITERS ★★★½

(Encore on Comcast) Like “The Lives of Others,” this Oscar winner for best foreign language film is a tale of a compromised man forced to confront his larger complicity: a Jewish counterfeiter printing fake pounds and dollars for the Nazis. It’s a slick, exciting work that ultimately hangs on its lead actor, Karl Markovics. Based on the true story of Operation Bernhard. In German and Russian, with subtitles. (R; runs through 2013)

LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE ★★½

(HBO on Comcast) Zack Snyder’s 3-D animated fantasy adapts Cambridge author Kathryn Lasky’s novels about an adventuresome owlet (Jim Sturgess) seeking out legendary Guardian birds to save all of owldom. It’s sometimes charming and always visually astonishing, but we’re never very far from reminders that this is a kids’ movie made by, well, the guy who did ‘‘300.’’ (PG; runs through Aug. 31)