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  DVD Good Morning, Vietnam / Dead Poets Society

  Robin Williams struggles to balance his comedic and dramatic sides in two different films.

  February 8, 2012 | 12:03am -

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  DVD CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, “Grave Danger” 

  A two-part episode directed by Quentin Tarantino makes a case for auteur television.

  February 8, 2012 | 12:02am -

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  DVD Luv

  This maddening quirk-fest from the ’60s should stay forgotten.

  February 8, 2012 | 12:01am -

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  DVD DVDs In Brief: February 8, 2012

  Our weekly DVD review round-up.

  February 8, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  DVD Godzilla 

  Properly subtitled and removed from its 30-odd sequels, the original monster movie reveals the radioactive heart of a nation.  

  February 1, 2012 | 12:02am -

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  DVD Sid & Nancy 

  Repo Men director Alex Cox was the right man to tell the story of punk couple Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen.  

  February 1, 2012 | 12:01am -

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  DVD DVDs In Brief: February 1, 2012

  Our weekly DVD review round-up.

  February 1, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  DVD Belle De Jour

  Luis Buñuel’s surrealist touches complicate the turbulent fantasies of Catherine Deneuve’s Parisian beauty.

  January 25, 2012 | 12:03am -

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  DVD Night Train Murders

  An Italian twist on The Last House On The Left both rips off and critiques. 

  January 25, 2012 | 12:02am -

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  DVD Memphis: The Original Broadway Production

  A Broadway musical so vibrant that even bad songs can’t quite kill it. 

  January 25, 2012 | 12:01am -

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  DVD DVDs In Brief: January 25, 2012

  Our weekly DVD review round-up

  January 25, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  DVD The Hellstrom Chronicle

  The 1972 Best Documentary winner fuses hypnotic microphotography with hyperbolic claims of insect dominance. 

  January 18, 2012 | 12:03am -

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  DVD Eames: The Architect And The Painter

  The life and work of Charles and Ray Eames proves nearly too expansive for a 90-minute documentary to handle. 

  January 18, 2012 | 12:02am -

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  DVD Australia After Dark / The ABCs Of Love And Sex—Australia Style!

  A travelogue through the sexier corners of Australia, Ozsploitation style.  

  January 18, 2012 | 12:01am -

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  DVD DVDs In Brief: January 18, 2011

  Our weekly DVD review round-up.

  January 18, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  DVD Tokyo Drifter / Branded To Kill  

  Seijun Suzuki’s wild riffs on the crime genre favor splashy impressionism over narrative coherence.  

  January 11, 2012 | 12:03am -

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  DVD The Andy Hardy Collection, Volume 1 

  In the late ’30s and early ’40s, MGM gave its child star, Mickey Rooney, all the work he could handle.  

  January 11, 2012 | 12:02am -

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  DVD Hostel: Part III 

  What was the point of these movies again?

  January 11, 2012 | 12:01am -

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  DVD DVDs In Brief: January 11, 2012

  Our weekly DVD review round-up.

  January 11, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  DVD Love Exposure 

  Sion Sono's four-hour magnum opus features martial-arts-aided upskirt photography and strong religious imagery, among other glorious oddities. 

  January 4, 2012 | 12:02am -

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  DVD Doughboys / Sidewalks Of New York / What! No Beer? 

  When a debt-saddled Buster Keaton headed into the sound era, he left his best days behind him. 

  January 4, 2012 | 12:01am -

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  DVD DVDs In Brief: January 4, 2012

  Our weekly DVD review round-up.

  January 4, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  DVD Design For Living 

  Ernst Lubitsch directs a Ben Hecht adaptation of a Noel Coward play. It doesn’t get any better than that. 

  December 21, 2011 | 12:03am -

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  DVD It Takes A Thief: The Complete Series

  A 1968 spy series isn’t quite a James Bond spoof, but it’s agreeably brisk and light-hearted. 

  December 21, 2011 | 12:02am -

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  DVD Don’t Open Till Christmas

  With a serial killer on the loose in London, the Santas in this 1984 British slasher film come with slays. 

  December 21, 2011 | 12:01am -

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  DVD DVDs In Brief: December 21, 2011

  Our weekly DVD review round-up.

  December 21, 2011 | 12:00am -

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  DVD Three Amigos / Scrooged

  A pair of '80s flops—or perceived '80s flops, anyway—have stuck around for a reason. 

  December 14, 2011 | 12:02am -

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  DVD The Stingiest Man In Town 

  Thought lost, an expensive 1956 production of A Christmas Carol is more than just a piece of TV history.  

  December 14, 2011 | 12:01am -

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  DVD DVDs In Brief: December 14, 2011

  Our weekly DVD review round-up.

  December 14, 2011 | 12:00am -

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  DVD Poison: 20th Anniversary Edition

  Twenty years later, Todd Haynes' debut feature stands as an important chapter in the history of independent film.  

  December 7, 2011 | 12:02am -