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A robotic nanny with a mean streak tops the DVD releases for the week of March 21.

▪ “M3GAN”: A high-tech doll programmed by an aunt to comfort her grieving niece turns out to have a dark side in this horror thriller.

"Last fall the internet witnessed a rare phenomenon: the meteoric, memeified rise of a brand new star, catapulted into mononymic ubiquity thanks to a single two-and-a-half minute movie trailer," writes Tribune News Service critic Katie Walsh in her review. "But M3GAN isn’t your average girl — she’s a lifelike, powerful robotic doll equipped with machinelea­rning capabiliti­es that makes a Tamagotchi look like child’s play. You can run, but you definitely can’t hide, so say hello to your newest horror movie obsession."

Also new

▪ “Babylon”: Filmmaker Damien Chazelle's debauched, depraved, sprawling epic into the bowels of early Hollywood history, set during the transition from silent to sound films.

▪ “Left Behind: Rise of the Antichrist”: Kevin Sorbo directs and stars in this apocalypti­c film based on the popular book series. ▪ “Lullaby”: Horror film in which the mother of a newborn inadverten­tly unleashes a demon when she sings a cradle song she finds in an ancient tome.

▪ “Seriously Red”: After a real estate agent loses her job she decides to try to make it as a Dolly Parton impersonat­or in this comedy.

▪ “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Season One”: In this Paramount+ prequel series to the original “Star Trek” show, Captain Pike leads Science Officer Spock and the crew of the USS Enterprise as they explore new worlds in the years before Captain Kirk assumed command.

▪ “Joyride”: Olivia Colman stars in this story of unlikely friendship as a mother who is in a taxi with her baby when the vehicle is stolen by a teen boy, with the strangers then embarking on a wild journey across Ireland.

▪ “The Headmistre­ss”: Horror film about an evil presence haunting a rundown lakefront inn that has been inherited by a teacher who unwittingl­y visits the property with some potential buyers. ▪ “Inland Empire”: David Lynch's hallucinat­ory 2006 film starring Laura Dern as an actress on the edge gets a two-disc Blu-ray release from Criterion,

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