The Heat ★ ★ ★
(Comcast Movie Collections: Just In) If you’re going to make a dopey, foul-mouthed, predictable lady-buddy-cop movie, you might as well make it funny. And until it overstays its welcome in the final half hour, “The Heat” is shamefully funny. Prissy Sandra Bullock and slobby Melissa McCarthy have genuine chemistry, and director Paul Feig (“Bridesmaids”) makes nice use of Boston locations and action-comedy clichés. (R; runs through March 25)
The Raid: Redemption ★ ★ ★ ½
(Starz on Comcast) An amazing Indonesian action-movie mash-up in which a group of cops have to conquer a crime lord’s apartment building one floor at a time. Choreographed with jaw-dropping style by the Welsh-born writer-director Gareth Evans, it’s poised at the midway point between an ultraviolent video game and a neo-classic dance musical. In Indonesian, with English subtitles. (R; runs through March 28)
The Village ★ ★ ★
(Starz on Comcast) M. Night Shyamalan’s new movie is a sociology project disguised as a horror flick. In 1897, a small town’s unwritten pact with a race of forest creatures is violated and all hell threatens to break loose. The film is loaded with the sort of surprises Shyamalan likes to use to keep us from talking about the naive but spellbinding business he’s really up to. (PG-13; runs through Feb. 6)