The Green Hornet
(Sony, $29)
Michel Gondry’s big-budget, 3-D superhero fantasy is hardly “classic comic-book filmmaking,” said RollingStone.com. But this 2010 release is worth seeing for a few good Seth Rogen one-liners, some “dazzling set pieces,” and a tricked-out Chrysler that could make Batman “green with envy.”
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Twelve O’Clock High
(20th Century Fox, $30)
Despite the title, it’s the drama on the ground that gives this 1949 World War II movie, now on Blu-ray, its “electric tension,” said Time Out London. As a squadron leader who applies tough-love remedies to a demoralized unit, Gregory Peck delivers “one of his best performances.”
Smiles of a Summer Night
(Criterion, $40)
This 1955 “comic masterpiece” finds director Ingmar Bergman in an uncharacteristically lighthearted mood, said The New York Times. A frustrated lawyer seeks his former mistress’s advice when his wife refuses to sleep with him, setting in motion a farcical chain of events.
