Safety Not Guaranteed
(Sony, $31)
This film “could well become a cult classic,” said USA Today. In a star-making turn, Aubrey Plaza plays a reporter secretly investigating an aspiring time traveler. Thanks to Plaza’s oddball chemistry with co-star Mark Duplass, the movie “casts an enchanting spell from its opening scene.”
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Your Sister’s Sister
(MPI Home Video, $25)
The “infinitely watchable” Mark Duplass is also featured in this “ingeniously structured” love-triangle drama, said The Philadelphia Inquirer. He plays a grieving man who sleeps with one woman only to realize he’s in love with her sister. Rosemarie DeWitt and Emily Blunt co-star.
Polisse
(MPI Home Video, $25)
Imagine an ensemble TV police series made with “grit, naturalism, and fireworks,” said The Boston Globe. Not every scene works in this documentary-style French drama about a police child-protection unit in Paris, but it was still one of the best films I’ve seen this year.
