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Battlestar Galactica - Blood and Chrome: BD Review

Is this new addition to the BSG pantheon worthy of its original series' sci-fi majesty? Alas, no....

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On the Waterfront: BD Review

Criterion works wonders with their unbelievably strong high-def release of this Oscar-winning classic...

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Skyfall: BD Review

Please allow us to introduce the first legitimately excellent high-definition release of 2013....

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The Sessions: BD Review

John Hawkes is so good in The Sessions that one wonders why he's not up  there with Helen Hunt vying for Oscar....

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The Man With the Iron Fists: BD Review

"I'll see you in Hell!" "I suppose you will - I'll save you a spot by the fire..."

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Sansho the Bailiff: BD Review

Kenji Mizoguchi's internationally-acclaimed 11th century tragedy gets a Criterion stamp of approval on Blu-ray...

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The Twilight Saga - Breaking Dawn: Part 1 (Extended Edition): BD Review

Breaking Dawn: Part 1 - now in high-def with 6% more sparkles....!

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Ministry of Fear: BD Review

This underappreciated Fritz Lang gem is a real treat in Criterion high-definition....

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Schindler's List: BD Review

Spielberg's devastatingly beautiful Oscar winner finally graduates to high-definition....

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The Twilight Saga - Breaking Dawn: Part 2: BD Review

Can it be? Can the sparkles have finally come to an end....?

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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp: BD Review

Criterion scores again with this Blu-ray upgrade from The Archers....

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Who Framed Roger Rabbit - 25th Anniversary Edition: BD Review

The Robert Zemeckis live action/toon hybrid turns 25, and this Blu-ray edition presents it cleaner and more finessed than ever....

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Sushi Girl: BD Review

You'll either find unique kinky thrills in this bloody action drama or grow completely disinterested with it by the end of its first reel...

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Les Miserables: BD Review

The Oscar-winner descends onto Blu-ray, and love it or hate it, it really looks and sounds amazing....

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The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey: BD Review

Peter Jackson's return to Middle-earth proves to be... tricky....

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Company of Heroes: BD Review

This Tom Sizemore WWII picture is no Private Ryan, but it's still more engaging than it has any right to be....

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Life of Pi: 3D BD Review

Ang Lee's epic tiger-on-a-boat saga proves why it took home four Oscars on this jaw-dropping 3D Blu-ray release...

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A Nightmare on Elm Street Collection: BD Review

Wes Craven's bad dreams established a studio and unleashed one of the late 20th century's most iconic horror figures. Sleep tight....

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Undefeated: BD Review

Is this documentary worth its Oscar status or just a capable sports saga made by guys lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time....?

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Waiting for Lightning: BD Review

Skater dude Danny Way wants to jump over the Great Wall of China. Do you think he'll make it....?

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Brother Bear/Brother Bear 2: BD Review

One of Disney's more underrated animated pictures (and its straight-to-video sequel) get spruced up for high-def....

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame/The Hunchback of Notre Dame II: BD Review

It never fully fired up the box office, but Disney's animated Hunchback of Notre Dame still has some pretty serious disciples....

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Lincoln: BD Review

Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner, and Daniel Day-Lewis team up to give us arguably the greatest cinematic historical biography of our time...

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Zero Dark Thirty: BD Review

Jessica Chastain and Kathryn Bigelow team up for one of the most suspeneful war movies in recent memory....

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The Devil's in the Details: BD Review

The pitfalls of Ray Liotta posing as a believable psychiatrist is the least of this crime drama's problems....

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Rise of the Guardians: BD Review

You'd think that with all of Santa Claus' influence and pull he'd be able to somehow make Rise of the Guardians a better movie....

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Chance in a Million - The Complete Collection: DVD Review

Simon Callow and Brenda Blethyn star in this zany piece of mid-80s British TV magic...

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Parental Guidance: BD Review

It shouldn't surprise anyone that this new Billy Crystal comedy isn't great, but just exactly how bad is it....?

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Adventures in Zambezia: BD Review

This animated adventure sports some serious voice talent - Samuel L. Jackson, Jeff Goldblum - but never really takes off....

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Digimon - The Official Second Season: DVD Review

I'm sure it brands us as anime fanboy dweebs (too late), but who knew Digimon was this much fun...?

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Dirk Gently: DVD Review

"If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family Anatidae on our hands...."

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Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries - Series 1: DVD Review

Is there anything on this Australian murder mystery set that we haven't already seen before....?

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Hyde Park on Hudson: BD Review

It's clear very early on why this FDR biopic was unable to garner any critical or box office traction....

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The Nativity Story: BD Review

A familiar tale gets new life on this new high-def edition....

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Veep - The Complete First Season: BD Review

The new Julia Louis-Dreyfus political comedy is snarky, unpredictable, and often really, really funny....

Midsomer Mysteries - Tom Barnaby's Last Cases: DVD Review

These fifteen episodes are grade-A television, but you might as well just start from the beginning....

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The Bible - The Epic Miniseries: BD Review

Just in time for Easter, this massive undertaking based on a book you may have heard of hits high-def....

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Naked Lunch: BD Review

Cronenberg adapts the 20th century's great unadaptable novel, and the results - now in high-def - are extraordinary....

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Gate of Hell: BD Review

This Oscar-winning tragic romance doesn't boast any bonuses, but it looks like a million bucks on its Criterion Blu-ray debut...

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The Four: BD Review

This Hong Kong export is heavy on acrobatic fight scenes but light on storytelling skills...

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Great Barrier Reef: BD Review

It's subject matter is  impossibly beautiful, but does this nature doc do the Australian reef justice....?

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The Sorcerer and the White Snake: BD Review

Jet Li takes to the sky in this ambitious but bloated martial arts actioner....

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The Syndicate - Series 1: DVD Review

This marvelous TV-on-DVD set houses some of the most powerfully unpredictable melodrama we've yet seen in 2013....

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At the Gate of the Ghost: BD Review

Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon gets remade for the modern age, but the magic's gone...

Not Fade Away; BD Review

David Chase's post-Sopranos drama has its moments, but actually fades away pretty quickly....

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Pierre Etaix : BD Review

These long-unavailable French comedies are a welcome addition to the Criterion pantheon...

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Django Unchained: BD Review

Quentin Tarantino's latest - a double Oscar champ - is perhaps the single most audacious mainstream movie in years....

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Jurassic Park: 3D BD Review

This 20th anniversary edition of the dino classic is without question worth the double-dip....

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Friends - The Complete First Season: BD Review

Season-by-season high-def editions of everybody's favorite 90s sitcom hit the market, and there are just as many pluses as minuses to them....

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Friends - The Complete Second Season: BD Review

"I can't believe two cows made the ultimate sacrifice so you guys could watch TV with your feet up." "Well, they were chair-shaped cows. They never would have survived in the wild...."

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