Let’s admit it — last week was between lame and painful. (If you had to sit through The Smurfs 2, you’ll know how painful.) This week looks better. It’s certainly more movie-packed — four mainstream and two art titles hit town. No complaining about dearth of product at least.

Every so often people pose the question, “What makes you so cranky?” Mostly, I think it’s an undeserved label — and this despite the fact that I’ve seen every Tyler Perry movie ever made. Then something like The Smurfs 2 comes along and my normally sunny disposition goes into full cranky mode.

Here we have a week with some slight — and very minor — confusion, but we’ll get to that later. What we know for sure is that this week finds two of the season’s most anticipated art/indie titles hitting town and the next Big Budget Would-be Blockbuster. That’s three movies — and one more that might show up yet — which is something of a relief after last week’s flood of movies.