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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I; Blow Out; Car 54, Where Are You?: Season One
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I
(Warner, $29)
The seventh Harry Potter installment is “half of a really good movie,” said The Washington Post. Though “full of enchantment,” it’s also a “grim, downbeat, and sad” prelude to the big finale that’s due for release this July.
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Blow Out
(Criterion, $30)
Brian De Palma’s 1981 film is a “fresh, fizzy cocktail of paranoid cover-ups and conspiracies,” said Entertainment Weekly. John Travolta gives “one of his finest—and most overlooked—performances” as a sound technician who accidentally records the fatal car crash of a presidential candidate.
Car 54, Where Are You?: Season One
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(Shanachie, $40)
Even at 50, this police sitcom “retains its charms,” said the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. You might need a while to get used to the “single-plotline pacing of 1961,” but officers Toody and Muldoon (Joe E. Ross and Fred Gwynne) will soon have you “happily tailing them through the Bronx.”
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