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MW on DVDs: The Town, Mother and Child, Despicable Me, The Other Guys, Nanny McPhee Returns … and more

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

CO-PICKS OF THE WEEK: NEW

The Town (Extended Cut/Blu-ray/DVD Combo) (Three and a Half Stars)

U.S.; Ben Affleck, 2010 (Warner)

The Boston, Massachusetts, of Ben Affleck‘s new movie The Town – and of The Departed, Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone and other recent thrillers, Dennis Lehane-derived or not — is decades away from the morally bent city of that great under-seen 1973 neo-noir The Friends of Eddie Coyle. But it has a similarly chilly temperature, the same clipped sense of smart-ass New England doom and Kennedy-accented cynicism welling up from the mean, sullen streets.
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