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LITTLE ROCK — Recent DVD releases:

Dark Streets (R, 83 minutes) No doubt there are moviegoers who will appreciate this ambitious and interesting musical's design and use of blues music, but its lack of a compelling protagonist and a shambolic script making it a tough sell to a general audience. Gabriel Mann plays a 1930s nightclub owner trying to solve the mystery of his father's death while caught up in a dangerous love triangle with the club's star singer (Bijou Phillips) and its new chanteuse (Izabella Miko). Bonus features include director and cast commentary and deleted and alternate scenes.

Grade: 82

Do the Right Thing (R, 120 minutes) This is the 20th-anniversary Blu-ray edition of Spike Lee's brilliant, violent, funny and forceful portrait of what happens when bigots and haters in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn get on each other's nerves on the hottest day of the summer. The castincludes Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee and Giancarlo Esposito.

Grade: 90

Flawless (PG-13, 108 minutes) Set in early 1960s London, this attractive, complicated caperinvolves a scheme by a retiring janitor (Michael Caine) to get a frustrated glass ceiling-limited American executive (Demi Moore) to help him pull off a tricky, tense and daring heist from their employer, an international diamond dealer.

Grade: 80

Tokyo! (not rated, 112 minutes) Three odd, intriguing and occasionally mystifying mini-films (directed by Michel Gondry, Leos Carax and Bong Joon-ho) provide unique and not always flattering images of Tokyo while telling very different stories: a shut-in's extreme isolation in a population-choked city; a romance challenged by gritty urban realities; and the weirdest one, a satirical trip underground in the company of an unpleasant gnome that is by turns hilarious and violent.

Grade: 82

Two Lovers (R, 108 minutes) Director James Gray seems interested in the particular damage that people do to others and themselves when they are cornered by their limitations.Men like troubled Leonard (Joaquin Phoenix) never get out of Brooklyn and they never make it with the hot blonde upstairs (Gwyneth Paltrow). Unless they do, and in Leonard's case he becomes infatuated by his neighbor Michelle while mounting pressure from his family pushes him toward committing to lovely, much-more-suitable Sandra (Vinessa Shaw).

Grade: 87

MovieStyle, Pages 38 on 07/03/2009