A clown terrorizing a New England town and a group of women hustling Wall Street clowns top new DVD releases for Dec. 10.
• “Hustlers”: In this almost-modern-day “Robin Hood” meets “Goodfellas,” based on Jessica Pressler’s New York magazine article with the same name and directed and written by Lorene Scafaria, “Hustlers” follows Destiny (Constance Wu), a stripper struggling to make ends meet. After Ramona (Jennifer Lopez) takes Destiny under her wing and shows her how to succeed at the club, the 2008 financial crisis overwhelms the industry, and the women concoct a bold new plan to continue making money: running up seedy Wall Street men’s credit cards, confident they wouldn’t call the strip club back to dispute the charges.
Pretty much everything about this movie is perfect, but especially: J. Lo attempting wealth redistribution, J. Lo smoking and lounging on a rooftop, J. Lo celebrating Christmas, all the angst-filled classical piano juxtaposed against dazzling early-2000s nostalgia, and did I mention J. Lo?
• “It Chapter Two”: The “It” reboot may have only come out two years ago, but this sequel takes a big leap forward, revisiting the Losers Club 27 years after the last time Pennywise the Clown had terrorized the town of Derry, Maine. Only Mike (Isaiah Mustafa) is still in Derry, and he summons the group back when heinous crimes and Pennywise’s balloons begin resurfacing in the town, to uphold the oath they made as kids.
Its bloated run time makes it suffer, wrote Los Angeles Times critic Jen Yamato in her review, but the script is effective when its characters’ emotions resonate.
Also on DVD
• “Once Upon a Time …in Hollywood”: In director Quentin Tarantino’s ninth film, a TV actor (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his stunt double (Brad Pitt) struggle to find meaningful work in Los Angeles during the summer of 1969.
• “Linda Rondstadt: The Sound of My Voice”: Documentary follows the famed folk singer through her early years and reign as a rock ‘n’ roll star.
• “Freaks”: A 7-year-old girl (Lexy Kolker) escapes her paranoid father’s (Emile Hirsch) locked house and discovers a strange new world.
• “Badland”: A detective (Kevin Makely) is hired to catch a Confederate war criminal in this Western directed by Justin Lee.
• “Family Guy Season 17”: The 2018-19 season of the long-running animated Fox series created by and starring Seth MacFarlane.
• “Suits: Season Nine”: The ninth and final season of the USA legal drama.
On digital HD
• “Judy”: Renee Zellweger stars as struggling legendary singer Judy Garland, who travels to London to perform at a series of sold-out Talk of the Town concerts to raise money to rejoin her children in Los Angeles. Look for it on DVD and Blu-Ray Dec. 24.
• “The Limey”: An English ex-con (Terence Stamp) goes to Los Angeles to avenge his daughter’s death in this 1999 Steven Soderbergh drama/mystery being released as a 4K restoration.
