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Boardwalk Empire: Second Season

(HBO, $60)

HBO’s Boardwalk Empire is a show that needed to “feel its way to greatness,” said The Boston Globe. “A stiff period piece” when it debuted, this Prohibition-era saga about an Atlantic City crime boss became must-see TV in its second season, when star Steve Buscemi nearly met his match.

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Bernie

(Millennium, $29)

“Jack Black gives the performance of his career” in this dark comedy from director Richard Linklater, said the New York Post. Black plays an assistant funeral-parlor director so beloved by his fellow small-town citizens that none blinks when he murders a wealthy old woman.

A Separation

(Sony, $31)

This year’s Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film is “a quiet reminder of how good it’s possible for films to be,” said Slate.com. As an Iranian couple struggles through divorce proceedings, it becomes “a sad, suspenseful story about love, grief, and the search for justice.”