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“Inside Job” (PG-13, 120 minutes): Fresh off its Academy Awards win as best documentary, “Inside Job” is filmmaker Charles Ferguson’s expose about the recent financial meltdown and its roots in an incestuous world of investors, journalists, academics and politicians. Sleek and purposely infuriating, the film lays out in methodical and stunning detail the factors that led to the financial collapse of 2008, threading viewers through a complicated skein of financial information with smooth assurance and clear-eyed analysis.
(Ferguson, who got rich during the high-tech boom of the 1990s and is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, also directed the Oscar-nominated 2007 film “No End in Sight.”) “Inside Job” is the first examination of the crisis to implicate not only Wall Street executives, regulators and ratings agencies but also academics and business-school administrators who were paid consultants of corporations while offering seemingly objective opinions about their economic soundness.
DVD extras: commentary with Ferguson and producer Audrey Marrs and a making-of featurette.
“Morning Glory” (PG-13, 102 minutes): Rachel McAdams labors mightily to be adorable in “Morning Glory,” a fitfully funny romantic comedy set in the weary, bleary vineyards of morning TV. McAdams gives her vivacious all to play Becky Fuller, a hardworking producer at a bottom-rated network morning news show. Her chief foil is curmudgeonly news veteran Michael Pomeroy (Harrison Ford), whom she dragoons into co-hosting the “Daybreak” program alongside aging diva Colleen Peck (Diane Keaton). Ford brings his gruffest game face to Pomeroy, who despises all the infotainment soft news that Becky’s generation represents.
But “Morning Glory,” despite an appealing premise and terrific stars, veers so wildly in tone that it never settles into a story worth believing, let alone remembering. At one point, when it looks like Becky might leave “Daybreak,” director Roger Michell throws in a sentimental montage of her life at the office, and you realize how little we’ve come to know the characters she’s supposedly going to miss so much.
DVD extras: commentary by Michell and writer Aline Brosh McKenna.
“Jackass 3″ (not rated, 94 minutes): The “Jackass” franchise, as gross and rude as it is, also is a touching ode to male friendship at its most primal. That’s not to say that the things that Johnny Knoxville and the boys do to one another aren’t mean, but the atmosphere in the world of “Jackass” is one of infectious bonhomie. After that fist – or that football, or that buffalo – lands squarely in your crotch, your friends will gather around your writhing body, ask (through helpless laughter) if you’re OK, and help you to your feet.
“Jackass” is devoted to the willingness to try anything once, out of a genuine curiosity about how the world works. The regulars are joined by guests such as indie-folk stalwart Will Oldham, producer Spike Jonze and the interchangeably Nordic stars of the Finnish stunt show “The Dudesons.”
DVD extras: MTV making-of special, deleted scenes and outtakes.
“Exit Through the Gift Shop” (R, 87 minutes): A celebration of pranksterism and perhaps a superb prank in its own right, the Oscar-nominated documentary “Exit Through the Gift Shop” captures the outlaw, monkey-wrenching glee of the graffiti artists who became art stars at the turn of this century, while raising profound questions about authorship, the truth claims of nonfiction film and that old chestnut “What Is Art?” “Exit Through the Gift Shop” purports to be directed by Banksy, the shadowy British street artist whose stencils of rats and puckish acts of mischief have made him a huge international success. But whether the film is on the level or just another of his political-cultural provocations has been open to question. DVD extras: deleted scenes, featurettes including “A Star Is Born,” on graffiti artist Mr. Brainwash (aka MBW) at London’s Cans Festival; “Life Remote Control: Lawyer’s Edit” and “B Movie: A Film About Banksy.”
“The Next Three Days” (PG-13, 122 minutes): Russell Crowe stars as a man whose wife is imprisoned for a gruesome murder and whose only means of keeping his family together is to break her out of prison. From writer-director Paul Haggis (“Crash”), co-starring Elizabeth Banks and Liam Neeson. DVD extras: deleted and extended scenes, featurettes including a making-of, cast bios and “moments.”
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