The War Room
(Criterion, $30)
“The timing couldn’t be better to revisit this gem,” said the Orlando Weekly. Chasing the inside story on Bill Clinton’s 1992 “comeback kid” campaign, directors Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker found a surprising star in chief strategist James Carville. Hegedus and Pennebaker are “masters of the doc genre.”
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Fort Apache
(Warner, $20)
“One of the great achievements of classical American cinema,” this 1948 John Ford Western “never fails to reveal new shadings with each viewing,” said The New York Times. John Wayne, Henry Fonda, and Shirley Temple star, as Ford “acknowledges a need for heroes while undermining the notion of heroism.”
Chinatown
(Paramount, $27)
Roman Polanski’s classic 1974 film noir finally arrives on Blu-ray, “and it looks amazing,” said Entertainment Weekly. Jack Nicholson delivers possibly his “greatest performance ever” as an L.A. private detective who gets in way over his head while investigating an adultery case. A “sultry” Faye Dunaway co-stars.
