This tortilla-and-toppings refreshment at Orale Mexican Grill was tasty and elevated by its avocado, but overall needed more to feel complete.

These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include Lily Gladstone’s “The Unknown Country” and more greats from 2023; Terrence Malick’s “Badlands”; works by Ousmane Sembène; the great new works “Origin” and “The Teachers’ Lounge”; and the space thriller “I.S.S.”

The vegan club at Somerville’s Forge Bakery, Bloc and Diesel Cafe; smoked turkey and cranberry sandwich at Flour; and The Dagwood at P&K Delicatessen in Somerville are good not-too-heavy dishes for your January.

Lyndell’s offers one of the best cupcakes money can buy – which helps explain how a bakery can survive for more than 130 years.

These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include Belmont World Film’s 21st Family Festival, with animated premieres and other celebrated fare; a screening of the auteurist “Chinatown”; and an absorbing Wim Wenders documentary about artist Anselm Kiefer.

A seafood sausage of shrimp, scallops and whitefish in a brioche bun crowned with dill and relish offers joy without the usual meat-based issues.

If you didn’t think we needed another Holocaust film, Jonathan Glazer would like you to think again. In his, we never step inside the walls of a death camp.

An affordable yet delicious spot for ramen, sushi and other Japanese dishes near Porter Square makes a great roll.

Andrew Haigh delivers a messy yet emotionally potent story about the ghosts we burden ourselves with, the ones who bind us to the past and the ghosts we inevitably make by loving anyone at all.

These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include a Brattle Theatre with “Refreshed, Renewed, Restored” prints of everything from the sweet “Household Saints” to nasty “Videodrome”; “The Godfather Part II” in Kendall; and a grueling “Society of the Snow” survival tale on Netflix.