Django Unchained
(Starz/Anchor Bay, $30)
Despite being “so politically incorrect it demands a new definition of the term,” Quentin Tarantino’s slavery-revenge flick is “one hell of a piece of entertainment,” said The New York Observer. As a bounty hunter who recruits a freed slave into the bloodletting, Christoph Waltz is “dazzling.”
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Boss: Season 2
(Lions Gate, $40)
Kelsey Grammer’s “alternately scary and mournful lead performance” anchored this short-lived series about a corrupt Chicago mayor, said New York magazine. The show piled on melodrama, but its punchy dialogue and “flamboyantly cinematic” imagery at least showed creative chutzpah.
Tristana
(Cohen Media Group, $20)
“A handsome-looking restoration” breathes new life into this 1970 gem from director Luis Buñuel, said The American Prospect. Catherine Deneuve stars as a virginal beauty who becomes more depraved than her elderly seducer, and Buñuel handles the madness masterfully.
