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X-Men Origins: Wolverine; Kabei: Our Mother; Bedknobs and Broomsticks: Enchanted Musical Edition
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
(20th Century Fox, $26.99)
The fourth X-Men film fails to “rise to the heights” of the earlier ones, said the Los Angeles Times. Its attraction is the rivalry between Hugh Jackman and Liev Schreiber, two “fine actors” game for anything, be it “Chekhov or comic books.”
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Kabei: Our Mother
(Strand Releasing, $27.99)
The 80th film by director Yoji Yamada is “lengthy yet seductive,” said The New York Times. The gripping drama focuses on the ordinary lives of a Japanese family during World War II, providing Yamada “ample opportunity for political critique.”
Bedknobs and Broomsticks: Enchanted Musical Edition
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(Disney, $24.99)
This “delightful” 1971 musical “bounces along” to a beloved score, said the New Orleans Times-Picayune. An English wartime spinster and trainee witch (Angela Lansbury) takes in three evacuee children.
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