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The ‘Paradise Lost’ Trilogy
(Docurama, $50)
This acclaimed trio of documentaries became “more than just cinema” when it helped free three men from death row last year, said The Village Voice. In 1993, the so-called West Memphis Three were arrested for the murder of three Cub Scouts “on virtually no evidence.”
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Brave
(Disney-Pixar, $30)
This recent animated feature from Pixar has “a manic, almost daffy energy and sense of humor,” said The Miami Herald. Emmy Award–winning actress Kelly Macdonald voices Merida, a free-spirited young heroine who must reverse a curse that turned her mother into a bear.
Savages
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(Universal, $30)
Though uneven, this violent thriller is director Oliver Stone’s “most successfully provocative picture” in decades, said the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A Don Winslow novel provides the story—about laid-back California pot dealers who wind up on the wrong side of a violent Mexican cartel.
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