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What Maisie Knew

(Millennium, $29)

“Consistently superb performances” bolster this contemporary update of a Henry James novel, said The Washington Post. A “galvanizing” Onata Aprile plays 6-year-old Maisie, who bonds with her new stepfather (Alexander Skarsgard) while her parents engage in a bitter custody battle.

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A Band Called Death

(Image Entertainment, $28)

This documentary works hard to win the audience that one “crazily talented” 1970s band never had, said the Chicago Tribune. Years before the Ramones, three African-American brothers in Detroit created a “hard-driving” protopunk sound but disbanded before ever finishing a full album.

The Fog

(Shout! Factory, $30)

John Carpenter’s 1980 follow-up to Hallo-ween confirmed the director’s status as a master of horror, said the A.V. Club. When the vengeful ghosts of a 19th-century shipwreck return in a dense fog, the scares owe less to the ghosts’ sword skills than to Carpenter’s “beautifully haunting images.”