Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)

Family Rated PG

Mercenary, which is not the quality you want in an animated kids’ flick. This sequel’s prehistoric characters might as well be stretching their paws out for money, because the picture gives them little else to do. Everyone’s back – including Scrat – but they’ve been ordered to work by the studio accounting department, not born

Descent, The (2006)

Horror Rated R

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Formula 51 (2001)

Action/Adventure Rated R

Shockingly amoral, Formula 51 follows a “master chemist” (Samuel L. Jackson) who’s trying to sell a new drug to the highest bidder. If you think that makes for a questionable hero, wait until you witness the callous and casual cruelty with which endless characters are killed off. A bullet to the face is considered a

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)

Comedy Rated PG-13

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Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

Drama Rated R

"…has a central visual metaphor that’s so lovely and so inspired that it single-handedly elevates the movie above its forced quirkiness and Sundance mannerisms."

Mr. Arkadin (1955)

Thriller Rated NR

Criterion’s exhaustive The Complete Mr. Arkadin includes not two but three versions of Orson Welles’ disputed mystery for critical comparison. Sort of a freak-show spin on Welles’ own Citizen Kane, Mr. Arkadin follows a con man (Robert Arden) on an investigation into the past of the shady title character (Welles), an eccentric billionaire whose business

Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The (1965)

Thriller Rated NR

This John Le Carre adaptation strips the spy game of its romantic trappings and depicts its players, as one character says, ‘as men playing cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten little lives.’ Director Martin Ritt uses stark, black-and-white cinematography and a documentary-like distance. Like many of its characters, the movie wears a poker face.

Looking for Comedy in a Muslim World (2006)

Comedy Rated PG-13

Writer-director-star Albert Brooks trumps himself while playing a smug American comedian named Albert Brooks, who is tapped by the U.S. government to go on a fact-finding mission to India and Pakistan. Once you get the movie’s central, oft-repeated joke – that isolated America is desperately out of touch with the cultures it is warring against

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

Drama Rated NR

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington runs on just the sort of idealism that gave director Frank Capra (It’s a Wonderful Life) his reputation for cornball sentimentality. Yet Capra could pull this tone off better than anyone, especially when he teamed up with James Stewart, an actor of towering sincerity. Stewart stars here as Jefferson Smith,

Naked Kiss, The (1964)

Drama Rated NR

New on Blu-ray, Samuel Fuller’s pulp melodrama would be overkill if it wasn’t so crazily entertaining.