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New releases Armadillo A documentary by Janus Metz set in Afghanistan's Helmand Province. It's a curious amalgam of reality TV and serious art. It's so alarmingly, disorientingly beautiful that its well-madeness seems to be more the point than any surprising or trenchant idea about the war or its participants. It's been given the structure and arc of combat fiction and the pervasive scoring of an ominous dream. In Danish, with English subtitles. (100 min., unrated) (Wesley Morris) Que