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Time Encapsulating: The Best DVDs of 2006
From solid single issues to amazingly complete film and television compilations, the works highlighted here argue for DVD's continued importance.
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We Are Marshall (2006)
The film manages a complex range of feelings with a series of hackneyed characters, plot turns, and montages. Lots of montages.
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Criterion's DVD appreciates the film itself, without trying too hard to analyze or understand it, thank god.
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Two for the Money (2005)
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