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This Is It

(Sony, $29)

This Is It offers glimpses of Michael Jackson’s “bygone greatness and poignant suggestions of what might have been,” said USA Today. A “hybrid of concert film and memorial,” the DVD features uncut footage of Jackson’s last rehearsals as well as a “Memories of Michael” tribute.

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Paris, Texas

(Criterion, $39.95)

German director Wim Wenders’ grim portrait of the American Southwest is an “art film with a Texas twang,” said The Washington Post. In this 1984 film, Harry Dean Stanton stars as a drifter trying to get his life back together. With a script by Sam Shepard and a score by Ry Cooder.

Roberto Rossellini War Trilogy

(Criterion, $79.95)

Italian filmmaker Roberto Rossellini’s war trilogy “helped lay the foundations of modern cinema,” said The New York Times. Released right after World War II, these neorealist films about postwar Europe—Rome Open City, Paisan, and Germany Year Zero—offered a “raw slice of reality.”