Capsule reviews of the next week’s video releases, on DVD and Blu-ray

Dec. 1

“Amy”

R, 128 minutes, A24 Films/Lionsgate

Documentary on the late British singer Amy Winehouse, who died at 27 of alcohol poisoning in 2011. “Meticulously composed of present-day interviews and splendidly curated archival footage … ‘Amy’ rescues Winehouse’s reputation, restoring her to her rightful place as a jazz interpreter on par with Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan and Tony Bennett,” wrote Washington Post critic Ann Hornaday in her four-star review. Contains obscenity and drug references. Extras include previously unseen performances, deleted scenes, commentary with director Asif Kapadia. Blu-ray adds interviews with friends and musicians.

“Goodnight Mommy”

R, 100 minutes, RADiUS/Anchor Bay

Austria’s 2016 entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar is a creepy tale about twin boys who begin to doubt that their mother is who she says she is when she returns home from the hospital after an accident. Contains bloody, violent and disturbing images and nudity. Extras include “A Conversation with Filmmakers Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala.”

“Mistress America”

R, 86 minutes, Fox

Noah Baumbach-directed screwball comedy stars Lola Kirke as a lonely college freshman in New York who’s taken in by her impetuous soon-to-be stepsister (Greta Gerwig). Contains obscenity and some sexual references. Extras include three featurettes: “Story,” “Brooke” and “Tracy”; gallery.

Also: “Assassination” (action thriller set in Japanese-occupied Korea in 1933), “Cooties” (horror/comedy pitting elementary-school zombies against their teachers), “Get Santa” (Claus is on the run from police after crashing his sleigh), “The Guardsman” (Chinese emperor goes undercover in action drama), “The Hunting Ground” (documentary about rape on college campuses), “Jerusalem” (National Geographic doc on the holy city, filmed in 3-D), “Mississippi Grind” (gambler buddies Ryan Reynolds and Ben Mendelsohn take a road trip to New Orleans), “Olvidados (Forgotten)” (Bolivian drama set against the 1970s Operation Condor campaign of political repression in Latin America), “Roger Waters The Wall” (documentary shot during Waters’ “The Wall Live” 2010-13 world tour), “Some Kind of Beautiful (aka How to Make Love Like an Englishman)” (college professor Pierce Bosnan becomes romantically involved with sisters Jessica Alba and Salma Hayek), “Tokyo Tribe” (street gangs battle in futuristic Japan), “War Pigs” (action thriller set during World War II), “Where Children Play” (young woman returns home after her mother’s death to take care of her abusive father), “Zero Tolerance” (father seeks to avenge his daughter’s death in Bangkok).

Television series: “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Revenge!” (two-disc set with the last 12 episodes from Season Three of Nickelodeon’s animated series).

— The Washington Post

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