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What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?

(MGM, $19.98)

In 1966, director Blake Edwards and star James Coburn made “one of the

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most ingeniously constructed American comedies,” said Dave Kehr in The New York Times. The “anti-war farce,” released during Vietnam, deserves a second look for its “brilliantly sustained series of plot reversals, inverted identities, and reconfigured values.”

Control

(Weinstein, $28.95)

While most music biopics make their subjects seem larger than life, Control creates “a life-size version” of post-punk icon Ian Curtis, said Dennis Lim in the Chicago Tribune. In his first feature film, director Anton Corbijn crafts a “spare, laconic portrait” of the Joy Division lead singer, dwelling not on the public legend but on the human tragedy of Curtis’ suicide at age 23.

The Dirty Harry Ultimate

Collector’s Edition

(Warner, $74.92)

“If you’re feeling lucky and want to make Clint Eastwood’s day,” this box set should do the trick, said the Macon, Ga., Telegraph. The seven-disc set includes all five Dirty Harry films, “starring Eastwood as tough San Francisco police detective Harry Callahan.” Extras include a 40-page book and a feature-length documentary.