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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