A filmed performance of a box-office smash Broadway play tops the DVD releases for the week of Dec. 30.

"Good Night, and Good Luck": George Clooney plays broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow in this timely theatrical production of the 2005 movie the Hollywood star directed.

"When George Clooney walks out on stage as Edward R. Murrow, the distinguished American journalist, the chiseled Hollywood star gets the customary entrance applause," writes Chicago Tribune theater critic Chris Jones in his review of the Broadway show. "Another ovation follows at the end of 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' the re-creation of a mid-century newsman’s battles with McCarthyism. But that doesn’t feel as much for Clooney as for Murrow and the values for which the newsman stood — and that’s a credit to Clooney, actually, and an indication surely of just how unmoored Americans feel right now.

"In short, the brilliant Chicago-nurtured director David Cromer has taken a mostly prosaic, procedural media drama about the CBS news program 'See it Now,' as adapted from the screenplay of a 20-year-old movie penned by Clooney and Grant Heslov and turned it into something that scorches with the heat of today’s political turmoil."

NEW ON DVD DEC. 30

"Christmas Eve in Miller's Point": This coming-of-age holiday film centers on a hectic family gathering on Long Island.

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