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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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Promised Land: BD Review

This Gus Van Sant/Matt Damon reteaming is no classic, but it's probably a lot better than you'd expect....

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George Gently Collection - Series 1-4: DVD Review

We're pretty sure that its Blu-ray cousin is the better investment, but this DVD collection of George Gently's first four series is still a force to be reckoned with. 

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Mama: BD Review

Jessica Chastain gets scary and the results are surprisingly interesting - just don't piss 'Mama' off if you don't have to....

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China Beach - The Complete Series: DVD Review

The iconic show finally arrives in its entirety on DVD, but the results are mixed....

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Silver Linings Playbook: BD Review

Is this Jennifer Lawrence/Bradley Cooper Oscar-winner just another so-so romance, or the real deal....?

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The Guilt Trip: BD Review

Rogen and Streisand hit the road, and the comedic results are far more entertaining than they have any right to be...

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The Great Escape: BD Review

The Steve McQueen classic goes Blu, but this isn't the definitive high-def edition of the movie fans have been hoping for....

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Broken City: BD Review

This political thriller should be an ensemble smash, but even with a killer prologue, Broken City falls to pieces...

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3:10 to Yuma BD Review

Delmer Dave's cult-adored western gets the Criterion treatment, and it takes on a gritty, suspenseful sense of excitement....

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Safe Haven: BD Review

It's early to say for sure, but Safe Haven has what absolutely must be the most ludicrously insane plot twist of 2013....

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The Verdict: BD Review

Paul Newman's courtroom masterpiece gets a sturdy upgrade to high-definition....

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Side Effects: BD Review

Soderbergh's last (yeah, right) feature film is a scary, diverting treat....

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Crimewave: BD Review

This long-lost collaboration between Sam Raimi and the Coen brothers is intriguing, though definitely not as fun as it should be....

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Frankie Go Boom: BD Review

Family comedies are rarely this outrageously, offensively successful...

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George Gently Collection - Series 1-4: BD Review

This high-def edition of George Gently's first four seasons trumps its standard-def cousin, but not by much...

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The Rabbi's Cat: BD Review

This uniquely complex animated import is visually stunniing and maybe just a bit too narratively oblique for its own good...

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In Time: BD Review

Alas, in the future, Justin Timberlake does not possess the power to bring sexy back....

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Spellbound: BD Review

Hitchcock and Salvador Dali team up for this Bergman/Peck psychological melodrama....

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Drive: BD Review

This high-octane Ryan Gosling actioner proves on Blu-ray that it was without question the coolest movie of 2011....

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Real Steel: BD Review

Hugh Jackman goes Rock 'Em Sock 'Em in this crowd-pleasing blockbuster hit....

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