DVD: 'Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows'

By Steve Jones, USA TODAY

Posted June 14, 2012

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

2011, Warner Bros., PG-13, DVD+digital copy, $29; DVD+digital copy+Blu-ray, $36

Robert Downey Jr., returns as the famed detective, who meets his intellectual match in criminal mastermind Prof. Moriarty (Jared Harris). The villain plots numerous assassinations, business acquisitions and terrorist attacks so that he can profit from the resulting war. He menaces Holmes and Watson (Jude Law), who also seem to be a step behind Moriarty's machinations.

USA TODAY's Claudia Puig says **: "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows is simultaneously brash and dull — hardly a combustible combination."

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

2012, Sony, PG-13, $31; Blu-ray, $35

Supernatural hero Johnny Blaze/Ghost Rider (Nicolas Cage) battles with the forces of the Devil to save the life of a young boy. Along the way, Blaze holds out hope that the curse that gives him his powers can be exorcised.

Good Deeds

2012, Lionsgate, PG-13, $30; Blu-ray + digital copy, $40

Wesley Deeds (Tyler Perry, who also directs) is a successful businessman who has spent his life living up to someone else's expectations. He's on the verge of marrying his fiancée (Gabrielle Union), but a chance meeting with a struggling single mom (Thandie Newton) who works as a janitor at his building forces him to reconsider his life's choices.

In Darkness

2011, Sony, R, $31; DVD+Blu-ray, $35

In Nazi-controlled Poland, a sewer worker meets a group of Jews desperate to escape extermination and hides them, initially for money. It is based on a true story of Leopold Socha, who during the Holocaust, helped a family survive underground for 14 months in the city of Lvov.

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

2012, Sony, PG-13, $31; Blu-ray, $35

Supernatural hero Johnny Blaze/Ghost Rider (Nicolas Cage) battles with the forces of the Devil to save the life of a young boy. Along the way, Blaze holds out hope that the curse that gives him his powers can be exorcised.

Good Deeds

2012, Lionsgate, PG-13, $30; Blu-ray + digital copy, $40

Wesley Deeds (Tyler Perry, who also directs) is a successful businessman who has spent his life living up to someone else's expectations. He's on the verge of marrying his fiancée (Gabrielle Union), but a chance meeting with a struggling single mom (Thandie Newton) who works as a janitor at his building forces him to reconsider his life's choices.

In Darkness

2011, Sony, R, $31; DVD+Blu-ray, $35

In Nazi-controlled Poland, a sewer worker meets a group of Jews desperate to escape extermination and hides them, initially for money. It is based on a true story of Leopold Socha, who during the Holocaust, helped a family survive underground for 14 months in the city of Lvov.