<Li> Best of 2014 (listed alphabetically, not ranked)--Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times </Li> <Li> Best of 2014 (listed alphabetically, not ranked)--Manohla Dargis, The New York Times </Li> <P> American Sniper was released on Blu - ray and DVD on May 19, 2015 . </P> <P> Upon its first week of release on home media in the U.S., the film topped both the Nielsen VideoScan First Alert chart, which tracks overall disc sales, as well as the Blu - ray Disc sales chart in the week ending May 24, 2015 . </P>

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