Welcome to Friday! I hope it is to your liking. Myself, I am not happy with it, for I have a stuffy nose and other cold-like symptoms, and it makes me headachy and phlegmy. You have some good movies awaiting you, though!

“Hot Fuzz,” from the guys who brought you “Shaun of the Dead,” is a loving spoof to buddy-cop action movies like “Lethal Weapon,” with a by-the-book cop and his slobbish partner investigating a series of odd “accidents” in a sleepy British village. It’s a wonderfully clever and funny movie. Go see it at once, I insist.

In the legal thriller department, there is “Fracture,” in which Anthony Hopkins shoots his wife in the head, confesses to it, hands over the gun — yet is slippery enough to still evade the grasp of the district attorney’s office (represented by Ryan Gosling). Good fun here, with a particularly clever central mystery.

If you need a horror film, there’s “Vacancy,” which has Kate Beckinsale and Luke Wilson stopping at a creepy old roadside motel and having to fend off dudes who want to murder them. It sounds lousy, I know, but it’s actually quite efficient, non-gimmicky, and tense. It’s barely 80 minutes without the credits and doesn’t have any downtime.

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