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The Great Dictator
(Criterion, $30)
Charlie Chaplin puts his toothbrush mustache to “brilliantly self-aware use” while playing both a Jewish barber and a “buffoonishly tyrannical” Hitler figure in this 1940 satire, said The Boston Globe. Extras in the Criterion edition include a 2001 documentary about the film’s tumultuous gestation.
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Children’s Hospital
(Warner, $30)
When Rob Corddry’s satirical series jumped from the Web to cable, it “quickly became one of the funniest shows on TV,” said the Los Angeles Times. Parodying serious medical dramas, Corddry and friends “pack a potent dose of absurdity into each tightly woven 11-minute episode.”
Solaris
(Criterion, $30)
This “brilliant” 1972 film by Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky seems to run for a good eight hours, said the Montreal Gazette. But it’s worth seeing again, because when the protagonist falls asleep in a space station, he dreams “the most beautiful science-fiction movie ever.”
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