Crime Does Not Pay: The Complete Shorts Collection 1935–1947
(Warner Bros., $50)
These 50 public-service shorts are “compact models of classic Hollywood storytelling,” said the A.V. Club. Unfortunate stereotyping mars some of the early cautionary tales, “but the series as a whole is consistently enjoyable.”
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The Deep Blue Sea
(Music Box Films, $30)
Director Terence Davies’s adaptation of a Terence Rattigan play is “quirky, dark,” and “too slow for some tastes, but it’s a work worth seeing” said The New York Observer. Rachel Weisz is wonderful as a woman who leaves a comfortable life and marriage to pursue a turbulent affair.
Down by Law
(Criterion, $40)
The Blu-ray release of director Jim Jarmusch’s 1986 indie film “electrifies with its impossibly crisp reproduction,” said The Austin Chronicle. Roberto Benigni, John Lurie, and Tom Waits star as escaped prisoners in New Orleans; “it’s by turns breathtaking, claustrophobic, and wide open.”
