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The perfect crime has long been a popular movie topic, and in Barbet Schroeder’s “Murder by Numbers,” Sandra Bullock, above with Ben Chaplin, plays a veteran homicide detective working on a case in which the circumstances become eerily familiar. Ryan Gosling, Michael Pitt and Agnes Bruckner also star. Opens Friday.

Also: Kate Winslet, Dougray Scott, Jeremy Northam and Saffron

Burrows star in “Enigma,” Michael Apted’s romantic thriller about British code breakers during World War II. The movie, based on Robert Harris’ best-selling novel, opens Friday.

Pop Music

Punk rock lives. That’s not really news, but the concentration of pure punk and punk-inspired rock this week in Southern California does emphasize the point in ear-ringing fashion. Start with veteran hard-core survivors D.R.I. on Wednesday at the Key Club, move on to the pairing of NOFX and Rancid Thursday at the Grove of Anaheim and then at the House of Blues in West Hollywood on Friday, and wrap it up with the Blink-182/Green Day bill Saturday and next Sunday at

Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in Irvine.

Art

“The Sacred Spaces of Pieter Saenredam,” a traveling show opening Tuesday at the J. Paul Getty Museum in L.A., showcases paintings and drawings of a Dutch artist who was an innovator in architectural painting. Saenredam was the first to specialize in existing buildings during the 17th century, especially churches. His depictions of medieval churches are notable now for their strangely modern simplicity. Below left: Saenredam’s “The West Facade of the Mariakerk in Utrecht.”

Theater

Best friends, wives and lovers are on a collision course in “He Hunts,” Philip Littell’s new translation and adaptation of Georges Feydeau’s wicked farce “Monsieur Chasse!,” about a husband and wife whose secret trysts with others coincidentally take place at apartments next door to each other. Opens Wednesday at the Geffen Playhouse in Westwood.

In the world premiere of Derek Nguyen’s drama “Monster,” one of the winning plays from East West Players’ Y2K Playwriting Competition, a Vietnamese American detective tries to find a missing high school student following a hate crime. Opens Wednesday at the David Henry Hwang Theatre at downtown’s Union Center for the Arts.

Music

In its U.S. debut, the female vocal ensemble Dialogos, below, gives an illuminating program at 4 and 8 today of medieval chant and polyphony from Italy and Croatia. The location for the Chamber Music in Historic Sites event: Mid-Wilshire’s imposing, acoustically brilliant sanctuary at Precious Blood Church.