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DVDs released June 10 include:
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· The Bucket List (PG-13) About the only worthwhile thing in this cliched, predictable movie is the presence of Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, who play two old coots with terminal cancer who decide to live out a few last-minute thrills. Extras include a music video from John Mayer.
· 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Unrated) The Post's Ann Hornaday delivers high praise for this Romanian movie about a young woman who helps a friend get an illegal abortion in the waning days of the communist Ceausescu regime, saying it provides "a bracing breath of fresh cinematic air." No extras.
· Funny Games (R) This disturbing, brutal, yet well-received remake about a home invasion on Long Island stars Tim Roth and Naomi Watts. No extras.
· Jumper (PG-13) This science-fiction fantasy stars Hayden Christensen as a man with teleporting powers. Hornaday says the movie is "oddly inert. It suffers from long, talky sequences and a shocking lack of visual imagination." Extras include deleted scenes.
· The Other Boleyn Girl (PG-13) Scarlett Johansson plays Mary Boleyn, the "other" of the title, and Natalie Portman is her more famous sister, Anne. The Post's Desson Thomson calls the movie "half a notch above a shameless bodice-ripper." Extras include a featurette on court etiquette in 16th-century England.
· Witless Protection (PG-13) Hornaday finds no redeeming value in this latest movie from Larry the Cable Guy, calling it "a worthless protraction." Extras include deleted and extended scenes.
Others of Note
· Ballad of Narayama (Unrated) This film by Japanese filmmaker Shohei Imamura is set in a mountain village in which the old, no matter how healthy, are taken to a mountaintop to die when they turn 70. It won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1983.
· Catherine Deneuve Collection (Unrated) Five films starring the queen of French cinema, including "Manon 70" and "Le Sauvage."
· Heavy Metal in Baghdad (R) This documentary, which screened at Filmfest DC this year, follows an Iraqi heavy metal act, Acrassicauda, for three years after the U.S. invasion.
· King (Unrated) In this new look at the life of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Tom Brokaw interviews Andrew Young, Bill Clinton and King's son Martin Luther King III, among others.
