Sandra Bullock and 'The Blind Side' arrive - Los Angeles Times

Sandra Bullock's Oscar-winning lead performance is the best part of "The Blind Side," a maudlin, feel-good melodrama that takes the real-life story of NFL lineman Michael Oher's tough upbringing and turns it into the story of a saintly Southern woman who plays patron. The movie is effective as a tear-jerker, but as charismatic as Bullock can be, her character doesn't make sense unless the kid she's taking care of is just as fleshed out, and Oher, as played by Quinton Aaron, remains a blank throughout "The Blind Side." It's troubling how un-troubling this movie means to be. The actual Oher says more for himself on "The Blind Side" Blu-ray, which contains a sturdy set of featurettes. DVD extras are limited to a handful of deleted scenes.

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The source material may be a Roald Dahl novella and the medium may be stop-motion animation, but "Fantastic Mr. Fox" is wholly a Wes Anderson film, with all the character-dialogue-design quirks that have made the director's work so recognizable. George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray and Jason Schwartzman give voice to a band of thieving animals who find new ways to outwit a trio of farmers in this funny, fast-paced, offbeat movie, great for older kids and art-house dwellers alike. "The Fantastic Mr. Fox" DVD includes two brief looks at how the movie was made; the Blu-ray adds still more featurettes.

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Director Jim Sheridan and writer David Benioff's remake of the Danish film "Brothers" stars Natalie Portman as a woman who becomes close to her ex-con brother-in-law when she mistakenly believes her soldier husband was killed. Jake Gyllenhaal and Tobey Maguire play the brothers -- a casting choice so perfect that it's surprising no one's thought of it before -- and their performances are so powerful that they overcome Sheridan and Benioff's thick-lined rendering of family squabbles and military life. The actors invest clichés with real intensity. The DVD and Blu-ray contain two smart featurettes -- one about the process of adapting the original and one about Sheridan's own hardscrabble upbringing -- plus keen Sheridan commentary.

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