Compliance
(Magnolia, $27)
This “brilliant” little film is sure to make you squirm, said The New Yorker. As the employees of a fast-food franchise detain and humiliate a colleague while acting on the instructions of a caller who claims to be a police officer, Compliance illuminates “something cold in the human heart.
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The Paperboy
(Millennium, $29)
“An exceptional cast” makes this flawed 2012 noir a film to see, said the Los Angeles Times. Zac Efron holds his own as a naïve observer in this “sweat-soaked” story about a possible false murder conviction. Matthew McConaughey shines, and Nicole Kidman proves “a force of nature.”
Game Change
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