This Is the End
(Sony, $31)
Actors Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, and Michael Cera are partying at James Franco’s house when the apocalypse arrives, and then things get really silly, said the Chicago Sun-Times. The result stands for now as “one of the most tasteless, ridiculous, and hilarious comedies of the 21st century.”
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3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman
(Criterion, $80)
Rossellini and Bergman caused such an uproar when they began a 1950 affair that their work was briefly overshadowed, said The New York Times. This “superb” collection, which plays like a trilogy, reaffirms that Stromboli was “one of the pioneering works of modern European cinema.”
The We and the I
(Virgil, $20)
A bus ride home through the Bronx on the last day of high school becomes something much more in the hands of the “wildly inventive” director Michel Gondry, said the Phoenix Arizona Republic. We never leave the bus, but we “see glimpses of happiness, sadness, joy, heartbreak, maybe even tragedy.”
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