The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is out on DVD today. At the time, I liked it:

It's a testament to how far digital special effects have come that the most compelling thing about Benjamin Button isn't how Brad Pitt de-ages so convincingly. As with the simple sketch by F. Scott Fitzgerald that the movie is based on, you buy the premise immediately: An orphaned boy is born old and ages backward. And it's a credit to Pitt that he sells Button—a role that could easily become a mawkish Forrest Gump in a lesser actor's hands—completely. But Cate Blanchett as Daisy, the love of Button's life, shows Pitt up by aging the old-fashioned, boring way and making it every bit as fascinating as Button's reverse journey through most of the 20th century.

And I stand by liking it, but it's not a film that will age well, or even a film that will make the jump to DVDs so very well.

I liked Wendy and Lucy, but not as much as Old Joy:

Kelly Reichardt's last movie, Old Joy, is the kind of flukish indie hit that turns its director into a legend. That's probably why almost everything about Reichardt's new film, Wendy and Lucy, is reminiscent of Old Joy. It's got the same Oregon setting, the same thoughtful—or glacial, depending on your attention span—pacing, it's also adapted from a beautiful Jon Raymond short story. Will Oldham appears in this film, too, albeit this time in a brief scene as a hobo with facial tattoos who tells interesting stories in a profoundly uninteresting way.

But even better than Wendy and Lucy in that kind of slow-paced indie film sort of way is Momma's Man, which is also out on video today.

The only other major Hollywood release that comes out today is Last Chance Harvey, the Dustin Hoffman/Emma Thompson romantic drama about a douchebag who might be saved from douchiness by...yes...love. (Aw!) I can't link to the review right now due to a search burp, but Megan Seling says it was "annoying" and that Hoffman's character was like a slightly better-functioning older Rain Man.

In non-major releases, there's Frankenhood, which is about a couple of guys who live in a ghetto and build a basketball player out of corpse parts in order to win an 3-on-3 basketball tournament; Wedding Weekend, about "a seven-man a cappella group" that reunites when one of its members gets married; a Ewan MacGregor/Michelle Williams adultery drama called Incendiary; and pastoral slasher trash Rise of the Scarecrows.

Other releases include the fifth season of Boston Legal, continuing the genius pairing of Shatner and Spader; the "complete series" of NBC flop Crusoe, the sad attempt at Star Trek tie-in mania called Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict: Season 1; and Aut-erobics, an exercise video for children with autism. You can find a full list of releases here.