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(Sony, $31)
Pablo Larraín’s documentary-style drama is “filmmaking of the first order,” said the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A 2013 Oscar nominee, it stars a “quietly intense” Gael García Bernal as an ad man running an opposition campaign against Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.
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Stoker
(20th Century Fox, $23)
The first English-language film from Korean director Park Chan-wook ends weakly, said the Portland Oregonian. But before its “prosaic” denouement, it delivers “a languorous sense of menace” as a dead man’s brother courts both the widow (Nicole Kidman) and her teenage daughter.
Quartet
(Starz/Anchor Bay, $30)
Dustin Hoffman’s comedy about a musicians’ retirement home almost chokes on “geriatric whimsy,” said The Wall Street Journal. But Hoffman’s fine cast includes Maggie Smith and Tom Courtenay, and it’s always “a privilege to watch peerless actors at the peak of their powers.”
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