Spring Breakers
(Lionsgate, $22)
When ex-Disney starlets Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez join a gang of bikini-clad, college-age stickup artists, the result is “an enjoyable guilty pleasure” that’s “like the love child of Scarface and Girls Gone Wild,” said the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. James Franco co-stars.
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(Warner, $29)
This recent Jackie Robinson biopic is “more a double than a grand slam,” said the Chicago Sun-Times. Chadwick Boseman is solid as the player who broke big-league baseball’s color barrier, but the movie “rarely rises above standard, old-fashioned biography fare.”
Rolling Thunder
(Shout! Factory, $20)
This compelling, “twisted” drama deserves to go down as the seminal film about a Vietnam vet’s homecoming, said the Okla-homa City Oklahoma Gazette. The underrated William Devane is blisteringly good as a combat hero who seeks revenge after he loses his family and his hand in a break-in.
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