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Goodbye Solo

(Lionsgate, $27.98)

Director Ramin Bahrani’s Goodbye Solo is already one of the year’s standouts, said The Washington Post. This “moving tale” about a Senegalese cabdriver and his unlikely relationship with an elderly white Southern man is “driven by deep feeling and sensitivity.”

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Adventureland

(Miramax, $29.99)

Adventureland‘s Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart “make a pretty cute ­couple,” said the New York Daily News. Their romance drives this “charming” ’80s coming-of-age story. Director Greg Mottola’s soundtrack and cinematography perfectly capture the era.

Husbands

(Sony, $19.84)

John Cassavetes’ chronicle of three ­middle-aged buddies coping with a friend’s death was one of the “major films of the 1970s,” said The New York Times. Peter Falk, Ben Gazzara, and Cassavetes himself attempt to “isolate and define a gender-specific sense of experience.”