A cult film receives a sterling A/V transfer, while its miscalculation of a sequel makes its high-def debut.
To paraphrase the Sex Pistols, the title character of Anaïs In Love doesn’t know what she wants, but she knows how to get it.
Kino’s 4K of The Apartment provides the definitive home-video presentation of one of Billy Wilder’s greatest films.
One of the Shaw Brothers Studio’s greatest masterpieces lands on Arrow Video boasting a revelatory audio-video presentation.
Valérie Lemercier’s film feels at once like a vanity project for its maker and a glorified fan tribute.
The Bubble’s toothless showbiz satire mostly comes down to teasing its characters for their entitlement and self-importance.
This radical advancement of the concert documentary receives a superlative transfer from the Criterion Collection.
King Hu’s 1966 film gets an excellent release that maximizes its opulent beauty.
Jonas Bak’s semi-autobiographical film unfurls through a series of echoes across time and space.
The Godfather films have set home-video standards for decades, and that trend continues with Paramount’s astonishing 4K restorations.
Disney’s 4K transfer is an early contender for the best-looking home video release of the year.
Matrix Resurrections is the most personal, vision-driven blockbuster of its era, and Warner’s 4K disc maximizes its unorthodox beauty.
Grasshopper’s excellent home video release highlights the aesthetic and tonal complexity of its minimalist approach.
Ann Hui’s harrowing and profoundly human Boat People receives a gorgeous and loaded home video release.
The Batman is a commemoration of the Batman mythology and its stylistic and tonal shifts across its 80-year history.
Tsukamoto’s grisly, goofy second feature, which cemented his status as a new master of Japanese extremity, gets a solid HD presentation.
The games are fixated on the idea of honor among thieves, but you wouldn’t know that from this antic, meaningless film.
The film proves that Hong has yet to exhaust his methods of deriving significance and beauty from the most quotidian of details.
Tony Stone’s avoidance of emotional manipulation in dramatizing Ted Kaczynski’s terror campaign is admirable, but only up to a point.
Eternals makes a brooding impression on 4K UHD, but don’t expect the extras to make a case for it as some misunderstood triumph.