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The Amazing Spider-Man

(Sony, $31)

It’s surely debatable if the world needed another Spider-Man movie, said the Charlotte, N.C., Observer. “But if you wanted a new interpretation—one where story and action stay in the right balance—this is it.” Andrew Garfield ably steps in as the young superhero.

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Ruby Sparks

(20th Century Fox, $30)

Zoe Kazan and Paul Dano bring “emotional truth” to their roles in this whimsical comedy, even when they must “execute increasingly unreal scenarios,” said The Philadelphia Inquirer. Dano plays an author who writes of his ideal woman (Kazan), only to find that she’s come to life.

Rosemary’s Baby

(Criterion, $30)

“A first-class digital restoration and transfer” shows Roman Polanski’s 1968 horror classic to have been “one of the best-looking films” of its era, said NYPost.com. Playing a young woman impregnated with Satan’s spawn, Mia Farrow “gives her best performance.”