New on DVD and Blu-ray
Citizen Kane: 70th Anniversary Edition
(Warner Bros., $65)
Seven decades after its release, Orson Welles’s masterpiece is still “widely regarded by critics and historians as the greatest film ever made,” said USA Today. See what the acclaim is about with this deluxe Blu-ray set, which includes a feature-length making-of documentary.
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Carlos
(Criterion, $50)
Director Olivier Assayas’s Carlos is “a tremendously absorbing blend of history, journalism, and drama,” said Salon.com. Édgar Ramírez stars in this sprawling, five-and-a-half-hour biopic about the 1970s Venezuelan terrorist known as Carlos the Jackal. This is filmmaking “on a grand scale.”
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(Fox Searchlight, $30)
Depressed divorcé John C. Reilly falls for the perfect woman only to discover she has a very complicated relationship with her “seriously weird” son, said The Wall Street Journal. Marisa Tomei and Jonah Hill co-star in this “dulcetly crazy and certifiably hilarious little comedy.”
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