New on DVD: 'Robin Hood,' 'The Secret in Their Eyes'
ROBIN HOOD (PG-13) (2 stars)
PLOT Dark and polemic, Ridley Scott's film is less about a band of merry men than a whole country of angry ones. Set in an England bankrupted by war, Robin Longstride (Russell Crowe) is a bowman under King Richard the Lionheart. When Richard is killed, Robin carries his crown back to England and into the hands of the treacherous Prince John (Oscar Isaac).
EXTRAS A two-disc set contains an unrated version of the film (155 minutes); deleted scenes; "Rise and Rise Again: Making Ridley Scott's Robin Hood" and the art of Nottingham.
LIST PRICES Special Edition DVD: $34.98; 3-disc DVD/Blu-ray: $39.98; DVD: $29.98
THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES (R) (3 stars)
PLOT This absorbing film - the Best Foreign Language Oscar winner - about the unlikely intersection of an unrequited love affair and an unresolved crime opens in the present day. Retired prosecution investigator Benjamin Esposito (Ricardo Darin) begins work on a novel about a case that has been haunting him since 1974, when a young woman was brutally raped and killed and the legal system failed to bring her killer to justice. When Benjamin takes a draft of his book to his former boss, Irene (Soledad Villamil), they begin to reminisce about their own relationship, professional and otherwise.
EXTRAS Commentary by director Juan Jose Campanella; Behind the Scenes and Casting featurette
LIST PRICES Blu-ray: $38.96; DVD: $28.95
- The Washington Post
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