This week's DVD releases

Boarding Gate (2008) ** There's basically only one reason to see Olivier Assayas's self-consciously hypermodern, meta-sleazy, English-French-Chinese-language globo-thriller "Boarding Gate," and her name is Asia Argento. (J. Hoberman, Village Voice)

Control (2007) ***½ Sam Riley is fascinating as Ian Curtis, a hypersenstitive young man hobbled by his incurable disease, and Samantha Morton is poignant as his put-upon wife. (Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader)

The Eye (2008) *½ The entire movie is an object lesson in diminishing returns: of nagging shock cuts and blaring sound cues used as indiscriminately as joy buzzers; of "look behind you" scares that wouldn't make a Boy Scout flinch; of a blurry visual scheme that was far more terrifying in "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," where it sought empathy rather than empty sensation (Jim Ridley, LA Weekly)

Flawless (2008) **½ It's left to (Michael) Caine to wink and nod at his own contribution to real caper classics of the 1960s and '70s, produced with more emphasis on fun and less on instructive fact-finding. (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly).

Meet the Spartans (2008) no stars It's rare that a movie makes me ill these days, and it's rare that I can see a movie and hate the people behind it with such abhorrence, but "Meet the Spartans" rises to the challenge. (Felix Vasques Jr., Film Threat)

Semi-Pro (2008) ** As (Will) Ferrell's film go, "Semi-Pro" is, honestly, pretty damn boring. (Peter Vonder Haar, Film Threat)

Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland (2008) **½ It was undoubtedly a great experience for everyone involved, and the show itself might have been a romp. But as a movie, Vince Vaughn’s "Wild West Comedy Show" makes you think of the days in which troupes that didn’t deliver were run out of town, bullets pinging off their heels. (David Edelstein, New York Magazine)