“12”
**** STARS
In “12,” which director Nikita Mikhalkov says is loosely based on the Sidney Lumet film “12 Angry Men,” the hours inside a makeshift jury room in modern-day Moscow are not wasted, as far more than the murder in question is on the table. Race, class, justice, war, free will, greed, government decay and conspiracy are on the menu. There is an unnerving twist at the end, but for the most part, “12” is magnetic. PG-13. 2 hours, 40 minutes. Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times
“The Haunting in Connecticut”
* 1/2 STARS
This latest film fright sinks or swims with the actors. Kyle Gallner makes a very convincing boy-about-to-die; Virginia Madsen is his properly stricken mom; and Martin Donovan, an underused leading man, plays the stressed, guilt-ridden dad well. The title is “Haunting,” not “Stabbing, Hatcheting or Butchered With a Machete in Connecticut,” so it won’t appeal to the hard-core gore crowd. But it has plenty of creep- you-out potential for kids just discovering big-screen horror. PG-13. 1 hour, 32 minutes. Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
More DVD Releases – July 14
Barney: Book Fair DVD + Book Collection
Beach Kings
Bewitched: The Complete Eighth and Final Season
Break
The Butcher
The Doors From the Outside
Don’t Touch the White Woman
El Camino
The Edge of Love
Grey Gardens
The Human Condition
The Jean-Jacques Beineix Collection: Roselyne and the Lions
Journey to the Moon: The 40th Anniversary of Apollo 11
One Way
Shark Week: Great Bites Collection
The Transformers: 25th Anniversary “Matrix of Leadership”
The Unwinking Gaze
Vegas: The City the Mob Made
Wild Pacific
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