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A Night to Remember

(Criterion, $30)

This 1958 dramatization of the Titanic tragedy isn’t the most popular take on the event, “but it is the best,” said Entertainment Weekly. Lacking high-end effects, it focuses on getting the historical details of the story right, providing “a chilling minute-by-minute re-enactment” of the ship’s sinking

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The Iron Lady

(Weinstein, $30)

Meryl Streep’s Oscar-winning turn as Britain’s Margaret Thatcher is a “triumph of creative, exacting portraiture,” said the Chicago Tribune. And the rest of the film may be better than you’ve heard—a “more intriguing” character sketch than the big biopic that most critics apparently wanted.

On the Bowery

(Milestone, $35)

Lionel Rogosin’s quasi-documentary from 1957 is a “strikingly beautiful and powerful picture, unlike any other,” said the A.V. Club. To tell the story of an alcoholic losing everything, Rogosin recruited and cast real Manhattan drunks. Martin Scorsese, a Rogosin acolyte, provides an introduction.