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Our pick of the latest films to watch at home this week

Welcome to Time Out Film’s DVD page, where you’ll find reviews of the latest DVD and Blu-ray releases, the biggest box sets and reissues of classic movies. Each week we’ll bring you a selection of the most exciting new titles, but we’ll also dig deep to unearth forgotten masterpieces, overlooked oddities and cult classics making their DVD debut.

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Les Misérables

Rated as: 4/5

It left plenty of critics in tears: some in snotty, eyes-streaming, can't-talk messes; others crying to get away from the A-listers warbling live to hits from the stage musical. Either way the tills were singing at the box office.

‘Les Misérables’ is the biggest film of the year so far. ‘Les Mis’ comes with an embarrassment of Blu-ray and DVD extras, including a mini-doc on the historical backdrop to the film, interviews with director Tom Hooper and his cast and a trip around production designer Eve Stewart’s authentic set.

Read the Time Out review of 'Les Misérables'

Hors Satan

Rated as: 4/5

Bruno Dumont’s enthralling and languorous left-field drama benefits from a remarkable performance by ‘Hadewijch’ actor David Dewaele as an ambiguous drifter who leads a troubled girl to salvation.

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Midnight's Children

Rated as: 2/5

Deepa Mehta’s overlong but lavishly presented adaptation of author Salman Rushdie’s Booker-winning fable about two kids born within an hour of India’s independence from British rule.

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The History of the Eagles

Rated as: 4/5

This engrossing three-hour doc on Laurel Canyon’s favourite sons is chock-full of seemingly every on-stage and in-the-studio snippet in existence, along with straight-talking interviews from the band members (then and now) and a decent assemblage of general behind-the-scenes stuff.

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Bait

Rated as: 1/5

Can a premise be any more ridiculous than this fish-out-of-water scenario involving a tsunami, a flooded supermarket and a group of stranded shoppers being circled by a (plastic) 12ft great white shark? No. No it can’t.

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Taken 2

Rated as: 1/5

With its Rizla-thin plot, badly choreographed car chases and laughably bad set pieces, this slice of trashy balderdash does Liam Neeson no favours whatsoever.

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The Oranges

Rated as: 1/5

A completely laughless suburban domestic farce set in New Jersey starring Hugh Laurie as a frustrated father who makes a play for his neighbour’s daughter.

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The Spirit of '45

Rated as: 4/5

Accurately bleak in tone and not without a decent set of incidental pleasures, Ben Wheatley’s follow-up to the impeccable ‘Kill List’ is, nevertheless, a slightly disappointing horror comedy set in and around some of Blighty’s less appealing holiday spots. Extras include a clutch of audio commentaries.

Read the Time Out review of 'The Spirit of '45'

Love Crime

Rated as: 2/5

This mostly humdrum Parisian corporate thriller from the late veteran French director Alain Corneau starts promisingly but soon descends into unconvincing murder mystery. Powerhouse actors Kristin Scott Thomas and Ludivine Sagnier at least make it bearable. No notable DVD extras.

Read the Time Out review of 'Love Crime'