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Lebanon; Animal Kingdom; The Naked Kiss
Lebanon
(Sony, $29)
A “haunting tale” of the 1982 Lebanon War, Samuel Maoz’s film follows Israeli Defense Force soldiers as they experience the horrors of combat, said The Washington Post. Filmed mostly inside a tank, it “reels the audience into the action to astonishing effect.”
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Animal Kingdom
(Sony, $29)
A teenager is indoctrinated into Melbourne’s criminal underworld in this Sundance award-winning drama, said USA Today. Jacki Weaver earned a Golden Globe nomination for her portrayal of his grandmother, an “evil matriarch with a deceptively sweet demeanor.”
The Naked Kiss
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(Criterion, $30)
In 1964, Samuel Fuller “achieved a kind of freedom rare in American filmmaking” with this film about a call girl, said The New York Times. Working for a small studio, the filmmaker created an idiosyncratic drama that “unfurls with the force of a vivid nightmare.”
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