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DVD REVIEW: King Kong
Josef Krebs  |  Jun 09, 2006  | 
Universal
Movie •••• Picture/Sound •••• Extras ••••
The first thing I noticed after picking up this two-disc set was that the
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DVDs: Match Point
Josef Krebs  |  Jun 09, 2006  | 

In Match Point (DreamWorks; Movie •••½, Picture/Sound •••½, Extras: None), Woody Allen creates a Shakespearean tale of ambition, passion, and madness that can only end in tears, and he does so in a uniquely cinematic way. By usual DVD standards, the quality of the picture and sound might seem lacking.

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DVD REVIEW: Pride & Prejudice
Ken Korman  |  Jun 09, 2006  | 
Universal
Movie •••½ Picture/Sound •••• Extras •••
Jane Austen has been done to death on film, but that doesn'
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DVD REVIEW: Delicatessen
Ken Korman  |  Jun 09, 2006  | 
Miramax
Movie •••• Picture/Sound •••• Extras •••
Now known for the vivid, otherworldly look of movies like The City of Lo
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DVD REVIEW: Breakfast on Pluto
Marc Horowitz  |  Jun 09, 2006  | 
Sony
Movie •••• Picture/Sound •••• Extras •••
Unlike The Crying Game, writer/director Neil Jordan's other film a
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Top 10 Superhero DVDs
Mike Mettler  |  Jun 09, 2006  | 

With a slew of superheroes in theaters this summer - X-Men: The Last Stand, Superman Returns, My Super Ex-Girlfriend - we feel a musclebound DVD assessment is in order. Batman Begins, a benchmark title, ascended beyond this list to the pantheon of torture test discs and will be revered in a future issue.

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DVD REVIEW: The Chronicles of Narnia The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Rad Bennett  |  Jun 09, 2006  | 
Disney
Movie •••½ Picture/Sound •••• Extras ••••
Cowritten and directed by Andrew Adamson (who also brought us
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DVD REVIEW: Star Trek Fan Collectives
Rad Bennett  |  Jun 09, 2006  | 
Time Travel Borg Paramount
Collectives •••• Picture/Sound •••• Extras •••
Paramount has already released all of the original Star Trek shows and
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DVD REVIEW: The Passenger
Sol Louis Siegel  |  Jun 09, 2006  | 
Sony
Movie •••• Picture/Sound •••• Extras •••
Michelangelo Antonioni took the premise for an intrigue-filled thriller - burne
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DVDs: Reference Disc
Al Griffin  |  Jul 05, 2006  | 

The New World (New Line; Movie •••½, Picture/Sound ••••, Extras •••), Terrence Malick's film about the fateful collision of English settlers with Native Americans in 1607, is short on dialogue and long on trippy shots of sunlight leaking through virgin forests.

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DVD REVIEW: Aeon Flux
Brandon Grafius  |  Jul 05, 2006  | 
Paramount
Movie ••½ Picture/Sound •••• Extras ••½
Another dystopian vision of the future, another ass-k
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DVD REVIEW: Munich
Ken Korman  |  Jul 05, 2006  | 
Universal/DreamWorks
Movie ••• Picture/Sound •••• Extras •••½
Five Oscar nominations notwithstanding (including on
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DVD REVIEW: Ronin
Ken Korman  |  Jul 05, 2006  | 
MGM
Movie •••• Picture/Sound ••• Extras ••••
Director John Frankenheimer's last feature, from 1998, remains a near-perfec
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DVD REVIEW: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Ken Korman  |  Jul 05, 2006  | 
Warner
Movie •••½ Picture/Sound •••½ Extras •••½
First-time director Shane Black, writer of
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DVD REVIEW: Syriana
Marc Horowitz  |  Jul 05, 2006  | 
Warner
Movie •••½ Picture/Sound ••• Extras ••½
George Clooney put on close to 30 pounds, grew an unruly
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