The Hunger Games
(Lions Gate, $31)
If your response to one of the year’s biggest box-office hits has been to avoid it, “give in,” said Slate.com. Jennifer Lawrence is “first-rate” as a teenager of the future who’s compelled to participate in a televised fight to the death, and the series is going to be “part of the conversation” for a long time.
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The Raid: Redemption
(Sony, $31)
“Fans of high-octane filmmaking” shouldn’t miss this “exhilarating, riveting” martial arts film, said the Los Angeles Times. As a SWAT team battles its way up a 15-story apartment tower to kill a crime lord, the fight sequences prove both “hide-your-eyes violent and mind-bogglingly stunning.”
Jaws
(Universal, $30)
Steven Spielberg supervised a frame-by-frame restoration of his 1975 blockbuster for its Blu-ray debut, and the results are “spectacular,” said the Toronto Sun. A remixed soundtrack and far crisper colors make the hunt for a killer great white shark “more terrifying, more thrilling” than ever.
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