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On DVD This Week: Sing, Assassin’s Creed, Live By Night Plus More

by Tim Ryan | March 20, 2017

This week, we have an animated musical comedy, a gangster noir, a video game adaptation, a selection from the Criterion Collection, and a bunch more. Read on for the full list!

Sing (2016)

71%

This animated musical comedy about a theater-owning koala (Matthew McConaughey) who desperately tries to stave off bankruptcy by hosting an all-animal singing competition features a toe-tapping soundtrack and voice performances from Scarlett Johansson, Reese Witherspoon, and John C. Reilly, among others.

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Assassin's Creed (2016)

18%

Based on the popular video game series, this action thriller stars Michael Fassbender as a man launched into the memories of an adventurous ancestor and pitted into a centuries-long battle between the assassins’ guild and the Knights Templar.

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Live by Night (2016)

35%

Ben Affleck wrote, directed, and starred in this adaptation of the Dennis Lehane novel about a notorious bootlegger and gangster in 1920s Boston, which also stars Elle Fanning, Zoe Saldana, and Brendan Gleeson.

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Miss Sloane (2016)

76%

Jessica Chastain stars in John Madden’s political drama about a powerful Washington lobbyist who takes on the gun industry on a proposal for reform.

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Julieta (2016)

84%

The great writer-director Pedro Almodóvar‘s latest is a drama about a woman whose life is upended after her estranged daughter returns.

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Being There (1979)

95%

Peter Sellers and Shirley MacLaine star in Hal Ashby’s classic about a naive gardener who makes and unexpected forray into politics. This Criterion edition gets a glistening new transfer, and is loaded with locumentaries, contemporaneous interviews, deleted scenes, and much more.

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