Modern Family: The Complete First Season
(20th Century Fox, $60)
ABC’s Modern Family has revitalized the family sitcom, said The Washington Post. The Emmy-winning series captures the American family “in all its contemporary forms—with parents both gay and straight, siblings both biological and step, marriages both first and second.”
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The Secret in Their Eyes
(Sony, $29)
This Argentine drama took home last year’s Oscar for Best Foreign Film, said USA Today. The film—which follows a retired police investigator who revisits one of his unsolved cases in order to write a novel—is “that rare police procedural that engages emotions as well as intellect.”
Robin Hood
(Universal, $30)
Director Ridley Scott cranks up the action for his take on the Robin Hood tales, said the San Francisco Chronicle. Russell Crowe as Robin shatters the mythos surrounding the heroic outlaw in this “gritty, violent, and dramatic retelling” of the legendary archer’s origins.
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