The Must List: What's Hot for the Week Ending September 5, 2010

''Avatar'' returns to theaters, ''Freedom'' by Jonathan Franzen, ''The Tillman Story,'' and more
By EW Staff
Updated August 27, 2010 at 02:35 PM EDT
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Credit: ILLUSTRATION BY JOSHUA EVILLA; Avatar: WETA (2)

AVATAR returns to theaters
Take another trip to Pandora when James Cameron's 3-D epic (rated PG-13) comes back to the big screen Aug. 27. He's added nine minutes of footage, with new creatures — and a longer Na'vi love scene.

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MELISSA & JOEY
Flashback! Nineties sitcom mainstays Melissa Joan Hart and Joey Lawrence star as a local ­politician and the manny she ­employs in this disarming comedy. (ABC Family, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.)

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LEBANON
There's a reason this wrenching Israeli war drama (rated R) about four soldiers in 1982 feels so true. Its writer-­director, Samuel Maoz, served in Lebanon as a tank gunner.

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RED RIDING TRILOGY on DVD
Watch all of the thrilling corruption and grime of the five-hour ­British crime drama, ­costarring the new Spider-Man, ­Andrew Garfield.

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KRISTEN BELL in Yeasayer's ''Madder Red'' video
With a bizarre, poignant humor worthy of Adult Swim, the spot for the band's moody single ­features Bell in a genuinely heartbreaking performance as a woman grappling with a sickly ALF?meets?Elephant Man pet.

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SONS OF ANARCHY season 2 on DVD
FX's pulp series about an outlaw biker gang revved itself up in its second season with juicier plotlines, Adam Arkin's pitch-perfect villain, and some amazing acting by Katey Sagal. Catch up with a DVD set that includes deleted scenes, a gag reel, and footage from a night out at a bar with the crew.

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ANIMAL KINGDOM
This raw Australian cop drama (rated R) ­depicts the brutal habits of a violent crime family. Led by a ­chilling matriarch played by Jacki Weaver, they have no problem turning their savagery on their own.

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FREEDOM, by Jonathan Franzen
Nine years after his bestseller The Corrections, Franzen returns with a rich, ­expansive novel about a modern-day Midwestern couple, their two children, and the ever-complex times they live in.

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JUNKY STAR, Ryan Bingham & the Dead Horses
An Oscar winner for ''The Weary Kind,'' from last year's ­Crazy Heart, the alt-country ­troubadour uses his ­gravel-stripped voice to sing melancholy folk hymns for the broken.

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THE TILLMAN STORY
Pat Tillman, NFL star?turned?Army Ranger, died heroically fighting the bad guys in Afghanistan in 2004. It was a classic story of American bravery and military might — and it was also a lie. With help from Tillman's determined family, this muckraking documentary (rated R) stokes our outrage over the Army's wide-reaching cover-up.

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