New on DVD and Blu-ray
Martha Marcy May Marlene; All Quiet on the Western Front; Anatomy of a Murder
Martha Marcy May Marlene
(20th Century Fox, $30)
Sean Durkin’s directorial debut “has a marvelous unease about it that never leaves,” said the Orlando Sentinel. Elizabeth Olsen delivers a “career-making performance” as a young woman trying to readjust after escaping a cult. The “journey through all her moods” is a “chilling experience.”
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All Quiet on the Western Front
(Universal, $40)
“Hollywood has produced hundreds of war films,” but few match this 1931 Oscar winner in portraying the brutality of war, said USA Today. After a group of German schoolboys enthusiastically join the army, their dreams of glory are “shattered by combat’s grim realities.”
Anatomy of a Murder
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(Criterion, $30)
Otto Preminger’s “provocative 1959 courtroom drama” is finally available in its original wide-screen format, said the Montreal Gazette. In a film that was “ahead of its time,” James Stewart plays a small-town lawyer defending a young army officer accused of murder. Ben Gazzara and Lee Remick co-star.
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