Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This weekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching. 

This week’s new release line-up is particularly packed, with last year’s dual winner of Best Picture and Best International Feature Film, another nominee in the latter category, a new indie drama, a TV comedy classic, and four all-but-forgotten catalog titles worth talking about.

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Director Sonejuhi Sinha’s fascinating feature debut, “Stray Dolls,” is a purposefully imperfect look at what leads promising young women to turn to a life of crime, thanks to a country that likes the chest-bump the word “opportunity” a whole bunch, without providing more than half the population their fair share of it. Capturing the descent through a journey of innate darkness and lustful catharsis, the seedy, almost B-movie-like art-house picture may be flawed, but it’s an impassioned examination of close female relationships and immigration issues, exploring how the strength and intimacy of such bonds often stem from shared adversity, not superficial traits or shopping habits.

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For decades, there have been plenty of famous crime duos on the big screen. Thelma and Louise, Butch and Sundance, Bonnie and Clyde, Mickey and Mallory, and many more have given film fans folks on the wrong side of the law to root for. In “Stray Dolls,” filmmaker Sonejuhi Sinha hopes you root for Riz and Dallas. And frankly, it appears that they need all the help they can get.

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