‘Dolphin Tale’ comes to DVD

Fri., Dec. 23, 2011

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Dolphin Tale

• • • True-life story about Winter, a dolphin (played by the bottlenose herself), who injures her tail, gets a prosthetic and gives hope to humans. Lovely performance by Nathan Gamble as a troubled 11-year-old inspired by the dolphin’s struggle. (1:52, rated PG for medical candor)

Midnight in Paris

• • • ½ A lark, a souffle, a delightful shaggy-dog story with Owen Wilson as its shaggy hero. What’s he doing in a Woody Allen movie about a B-list screenwriter who time-travels from the present to the Jazz Age? Disarming the audience with his wistful joie de vivre, that’s what. With Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard and Michael Sheen. (1:34, rated PG-13 for sexual references)

• • • Combine the sibling tensions and hopped-up dysfunction of “The Fighter” with the working-class underdog heroics of “Rocky,” pile on big heaps of corn and throw it all in an Ultimate Fighting Championship cage, and you have this crazily enjoyable mixed martial arts melodrama. ( 2:19, rated PG-13 for violence, profanity, adult themes)

Straw Dogs

• ½ Rod Lurie’s remake of Sam Peckinpah’s bloody meditation on masculinity almost succeeds as an object lesson in the difference between being a man and being a macho animal, but it fails as a gripping home-invasion thriller. Kate Bosworth is terrific as the wife who wants her husband (James Marsden) to stand up for himself the way she stands up for herself. (1:45, rated R for strong brutal violence including a sexual attack, menace, some sexual content, and pervasive language)

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