The Oscar nominated Revolutionary Road hits DVD today along with a different look at The Holocaust and some good old fashion relationship advice from some of Hollywood’s biggest stars. Let us guide you in which movies to buy, rent or skip this week.

Rent it: Defiance takes on WWII and The Holocaust from a different angle – The Jews fight back. Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jaime Bell and George Mackay star as four Jewish brothers from Poland who escaped the Nazis and helped rescue fellow Jews. The film is based on the true story of the Bielski partisans, who were a group of Jewish resistance fighters who helped save 1,200 Jews during the war. Although this story should be heartwarming, the film is stiff and ordinary. However, Craig and Schreiber deliver strong, accurate performances. Overall, the film is merely average, when it had the potential of being so much more.

Skip it: Revolutionary Road is based on Richard Yates’ novel of the same name and is set in 1955 where Frank (Leonardo DiCaprio) and April Wheeler (Kate Winselt) are living in the wealthy suburbs in New York. Both are miserable with the way their lives have turned out, and feel trapped in the conformity of suburban life. The novel is filled with passion and emotion, but we don’t get the same from the film. It’s well acted, but you never forget the characters are acting. And Winslet and DiCaprio come off as if they are complaining about what seems to be not such a bad life. They have each other, their health, a nice home and beautiful kids. The film is helmed by Winslet’s husband Sam Mendes and was nominated for three Oscars. But overall the film left us sour and depressed.

Rent it: He’s Not That Into You is also adapted from a fictional novel of the same name by Liz Tuccillo and Greg Behrent, which gives light-hearted relationship advice of how to interpret the signs that a male is not into a woman.  The movie is backed with a killer cast including Drew Barrymore, Scarlett Johansson, Ginnifer Goodwin, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Anniston, Jennifer Connelly, Kevin Connolly, Bradley Cooper, Kris Kistofferson, and Justin Long. The one main gripe we have with the film is Justin Long playing a stud muffin. He usually plays nerdy characters as in Dodgeball and Accepted, and he seems out of place playing the guy everyone wants to get with. But we loved Ginnifer Goodwin, who lit up the screen with her optimism. This film was a pleasant surprise and shows a humorous and real glimpse of the heart ache we all have experienced one time or another.

 —Jessica Delli Santi