10 NEW TO NETFLIX
“The Black Cellphone“
“Blue Moon“
“Colossal“
“East of Wall“
“Ema“
“Fall“
“The right way to Prepare Your Dragon“
“The Iron Claw“
“Mississippi Grind“
“Triangle of Unhappiness“
12 NEW TO BLU-RAY/DVD
“3:10 to Yuma” (Criterion)
Usually undervalued with regards to dialogue of one of the best Westerns of all time, Delmer Daves’ 1957 banger was resurrected by James Mangold’s remake in 2007 with Christian Bale and Russell Crowe. 5 years later, it was chosen for preservation within the Nationwide Movie Registry, and Criterion added it to their assortment a yr later in 2013. This nice movie adaptation of a brief story by Elmore Leonard stars Glenn Ford and Van Heflin within the story of a rancher who tries to get a infamous prison to the titular practice so he can go on trial in Arizona. It’s gorgeously framed, completely paced, and now it’s the 4K part of the Criterion Assortment.
Particular Options
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Alternate 5.1 encompass soundtrack, offered in DTS-HD Grasp Audio
- One 4K UHD disc of the movie offered in Dolby Imaginative and prescient HDR and one Blu-ray with the movie and particular options
- Interviews with creator Elmore Leonard and actor Glenn Ford’s son and biographer, Peter Ford
- English subtitles for the deaf and laborious of listening to
- PLUS: An essay by critic Kent Jones
“Cloud“
Among the finest residing filmmakers, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, launched this thriller quietly in 2025, which implies most of you most likely haven’t seen it. Criterion has spotlighted the movie by way of their Janus Contemporaries model, giving it a slight however efficient launch. The necessary factor just isn’t the particular options however that you simply see this nice movie, one in all my favorites of 2025, and one which appears timelier on daily basis. It’s a few man named Yoshii who crosses paths with the improper folks throughout one in all his on-line retail scams. Kurosawa has made a sensible thriller that embeds its social commentary in riveting suspense. It’s nice.
Particular Options
- Meet the Filmmakers: Kiyoshi Kurosawa, a Criterion Channel unique interview
- Trailer
- Notes by critic Sean Gilman
Angus MacLachlan’s “A Little Prayer” premiered at Sundance 2023, however then fell down a rabbit gap of licensing and distribution points, getting caught within the pipeline for each two years. Lastly getting launched in Summer season 2025, it additionally performed Ebertfest and the Chicago Critics Movie Pageant that yr, with the great MacLachlan and Levy as a visitor on the latter. MacLachlan additionally made the journey to Ebertfest, and that panel is included on this Blu-ray, co-moderated by yours actually. The “Junebug” author/director returns to a world he is aware of on this tender character examine of a person who discovers that his son might not be a good individual, and what meaning for his relationship with a daughter-in-law he now sees as his personal baby. It’s good, transferring, and great.
Particular Options
- Audio Commentary by Director Angus MacLachlan
- Contained in the Arthouse with Angus MacLachlan and Jane Levy
- Panel Dialogue from EbertFest 2025
- Picture Gallery
- Theatrical Trailer
“The Man Who Wasn’t There” (Criterion)
The Coen brothers beloved to modify up genres, leaping from “O Brother, The place Artwork Thou” to this noir that couldn’t be extra completely different if it tried. One of many extra underrated movies within the Coen filmography, this 2001 noir stars Billy Bob Thornton as Ed Crane, a California barber who devises a plan to blackmail his spouse’s lover. That includes a few of Roger Deakins’ most placing cinematography, this one additionally has an ideal Coen ensemble that features Frances McDormand, Richard Jenkins, Scarlett Johansson, James Gandolfini, and a standout flip from Shalhoub. The Criterion launch contains not solely a previously-available commentary by the Coens however a brand new dialog with the brothers and the exceptional creator Megan Abbott, a author who is aware of in regards to the James M. Cain affect on this gem.
Particular Options
- New 4K digital restoration, supervised and accepted by director of images Roger Deakins, with 5.0 encompass DTS-HD Grasp Audio soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the movie offered in Dolby Imaginative and prescient HDR and one Blu-ray with the movie and particular options
- Audio commentary that includes filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen and actor Billy Bob Thornton
- New dialog between the Coens and creator Megan Abbott
- Archival interview with Deakins
- Quick making-of documentary and deleted scenes
- English subtitles for the deaf and laborious of listening to
- PLUS: An essay by creator Laura Lippman
Steven Spielberg has arguably one of the best 2-movie yr in historical past with 1993’s “Jurassic Park” and “Schindler’s Checklist,” however one other candidate for consideration if one was making a listicle of such issues could be his equally distinct 2002: “Catch Me If You Can” and “Minority Report,” which made its 4K debut this month. The particular options stay the identical, however it is a movie to personal in 4K, among the best sci-fi options of the 2000s, a prescient story of how expertise and surveillance would affect the world. It’s a film that will get higher each time I see it.
Particular Options
- The Future In response to Steven Spielberg
- Contained in the World of Precrime
- Philip Okay. Dick, Steven Spielberg, and Minority Report
- Minority Report: Future Realized
- Minority Report: Props of the Future
- Highlights From Minority Report: From the Set
- Minority Report: Commercials of the Future
- Previz Sequences
- From Story to Display screen
- Deconstructing Minority Report
- The Stunts of Minority Report
- ILM and Minority Report
- Ultimate Report
- Manufacturing Ideas
- Storyboard Sequences
- Unique Trailers
“Community” (Criterion)
This November marks the fiftieth anniversary of a film that feels prefer it needs to be needed watch in a time when journalism is below assault. As newspapers reduce staffs and networks are more and more below the management of outdoor forces, return and watch Paddy Chayefsky’s devastating prediction of the place the world was headed. Peter Finch performs Howard Beale, who has a complete breakdown on reside TV, revealing how a lot folks love to observe private demons made public. Roger understood the ability of the movie, and Sidney Lumet’s underrated work on it, writing in his Nice Motion pictures essay: “In “Community,” which is never regarded as a “director’s image,” it’s his unobtrusive talent that enables all these completely different notes and vitality ranges to exist throughout the similar movie. In different fingers, the movie may need whirled to items. In his, it turned a touchstone.”
Particular Options
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the movie offered in Dolby Imaginative and prescient HDR and one Blu-ray with the movie and particular options
- Audio commentary that includes director Sidney Lumet
- Paddy Chayefsky: Collector of Phrases (2025), a feature-length documentary in regards to the screenwriter by Matthew Miele
- The Making of “Community” (2006), a six-part documentary by Laurent Bouzereau
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and laborious of listening to
- PLUS: An essay by political commentator and New York Occasions columnist Jamelle Bouie
“Now You See Me, Now You Don’t“
Should you’re questioning how a sequel obtained made to a 2016 film that most individuals forgot, two phrases for you: Worldwide audiences. These films are shockingly enormous around the globe, proving that the language of magic is common, I assume. The second movie revamped $330 million; this one solely about $230 million, however nonetheless effectively within the black on the revenue sheet. Why the lower? The prolonged wait between movies didn’t assist, however that is additionally a fairly lazy flick, a film that makes use of low-cost results to inform a well-known story with an overcrowded solid. On the one hand, it’s a serviceable distraction on a wet Saturday in the event you don’t wish to be challenged greater than that. On the opposite, it’s form of a waste of time. Though it’s value noting that Lionsgate has given it a fairly sturdy Blu-ray with commentary, featurettes, and deleted scenes. They learn about that worldwide bodily media greenback, too.
Particular Options
- Audio Commentary with Director Ruben Fleischer and Producer Bobby Cohen
- Lord of Illusions
- Now You See Me… Once more
- Coronary heart of Stone
- Fast Change
- Nothing Up My Sleeve
- The Magic Citadel
- Deleted and Prolonged Scenes
- Unique Trailer
Every part previous was new once more in Fall 2025 with a reboot of “The Working Man,” the sequel “Tron: Ares,” and this standalone “Predator” motion flick, simply one of the best of the bunch. Matt Zoller Seitz’s 4-star overview at this website was one in all our most divisive of final yr. I can’t fairly go that far, however I get it. That is such an unique, enjoyable film, the best strategy to construct on an current property as an alternative of simply remaking what labored earlier than. Director Dan Trachtenberg’s love for this world is palpable, and Elle Fanning is legitimately nice, as she so typically is. It additionally seems to be unbelievable with a number of the greatest sci-fi cinematography of final yr from Jeff Cutter, much more vibrant in 4K.
Particular Options
- Audio Commentary: Watch the movie with audio commentary by Director Dan Trachtenberg, Producer Ben Rosenblatt, Director of Images Jeff Cutter and Stunt Coordinator Jacob Tomuri.
- Deleted & Pre-Visualization Scenes with Elective Audio Commentary:
- Sand Entice – An early animatic model of Dek’s very completely different first encounter with Thia.
- Squirt Canyon – The total model of Dek and Thia traversing the water-filled trench whereas making an attempt to outlive Genna…and one another.
- Tessa vs. Abe – Tessa faces off in opposition to a superior synth on this deleted scene and storyline.
- Razor Grass – The unique previsualization of Dek, Thia, and Bud’s first hunt collectively…kind of.
- The Outpost – Thia takes Dek to a small Weyland-Yutani subject facility the place they expertise a couple of issues that ended up getting used elsewhere within the closing movie.
- Tremendous Energy Loader Prolonged – Particular further moments throughout Dek’s climactic closing battle with the Tremendous Energy Loader and the Kalisk.
- Featurettes:
- Embodying the Predator – Meet the proficient group of designers, performers, and results artists accountable for bringing one in all cinema’s most terrifying creatures to life on display screen in methods we’ve by no means seen earlier than!
- Genuine Synthetics – Stand up shut and private with synths Thia and Tessa as star Elle Fanning walks us by way of the method of crafting two characters who could look the identical however have developed in surprisingly distinctive methods.
- Constructing the Badlands – With razor sharp grass, killer timber, and terrifying animals, by no means has a planet been extra lethal than Genna. Uncover how a group of artisans constructed this threatening panorama, reworking actual places into the damaging environments seen on display screen.
- Dek of the Yautja – For the primary time ever, director Dan Trachtenberg has given audiences an prolonged peek at Predator tradition. Observe the evolution as filmmakers reveal the method behind creating the Yautja’s house world, spacecraft, and household dynamics.
A relative hit on the fest circuit, this dramedy appeared to die in a crowded awards season. It’s too dangerous as a result of there’s sufficient to love right here to warrant a glance. Brendan Fraser stars as an American actor who will get a job pretending to be actual folks, comparable to a mourner at a funeral. When he’s requested to fake to be the estranged father of a bit of woman, he goes together with it, resulting in inevitable heartbreak. “Rental Household” is unapologetically melodramatic, however so are the real-life actors it facilities. It must be pitched to an emotional 11, and there are robust supporting performances from Akira Emoto and Mari Yamamoto that assist floor it when Fraser’s puppy-dog look will get a bit too saccharine.
Particular Options
- Featurette: Rental Household Revealed — Go behind the scenes with Brendan Fraser, director HIKARI, and the Japanese solid as they discover friendship, tradition, discovered household, and filming in Japan on this intimate take a look at the making of Rental Household.
- Deleted/Prolonged Scenes:
- Columbus
- Crying Session
- Apology
- Aiko’s First Shopper
- Clearbright
- Tickets
- Audition
- Cellphone Name
- Ultimate Montage
One of the best motion film of 2025 that you simply most likely haven’t seen is now accessible on streaming and Blu-ray. Jorma Tommila returns as Aatami Korpi, who has turn into one thing of a legend for his talent dispatching Nazis from the primary movie. Joined by nice character actors Richard Brake and Stephen Lang, “Sisu: Street to Revenge” is like Looney Tunes meets “Mad Max: Fury Street,” a ludicrously satisfying motion flick that basically ought to have an enormous fan base. If simply because I wish to see one other one.
Particular Options
- Upping The Ante
- Alternate Ending
It’s form of humorous that the large biopics of 2025 like “Springsteen: Street to Nowhere” flopped this awards season and the film that’s about Neil Diamond however not likely about Neil Diamond landed an Oscar nod for Finest Actress. Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson star within the story of Lightning and Thunder, a Diamond cowl duo that made it large enough that they opened for Pearl Jam. They’re efficient, and the music guidelines, however the movie is fairly commonplace melodrama with out a lot true character improvement or visible language in any respect. Nonetheless, you may do worse for a little bit of sudden Oscar bait, particularly in the event you’re making an attempt to see all of this yr’s nominees.
Particular Options
- FEATURE COMMENTARY WITH WRITER/DIRECTOR CRAIG BREWER
- EXTENDED PERFORMANCES:
- Crunchy Granola Suite
- Candy Caroline
- ONE PLUS ONE EQUALS THREE – There isn’t any Lightning with out Thunder. Watch as Hugh and Kate reminisce on their characters’ love story, co-dependency, and their simple electrical energy.
- LIGHTNING IN THE BOTTLE – A love letter to the small-time performers, go behind the scenes with Author/Director Craig Brewer to see how he introduced SONG SUNG BLUE to life.
- EYE FOR STYLE – On this featurette, Costume Designer Ernesto Martinez reveals the artwork of storytelling by way of sew and magnificence.
“A Lady Beneath the Affect” (Criterion)
When folks ask me one of the best efficiency of all time, I give one in all two solutions: Al Pacino in “Canine Day Afternoon” or Gena Rowlands on this John Cassavetes masterpiece, now upgraded to 4K by the Criterion Assortment. Her Mabel Longhetti is unforgettable, a simmering cauldron of emotional upheaval. As Roger wrote in his Nice Motion pictures overview, “Her insanity burns amid the confusions of home life. Nothing goes simply.” What an ideal line for an ideal film.
Particular Options
- Excessive-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Audio commentary by sound recordist and composer Bo Harwood and digicam operator Michael Ferris
- Dialog between actors Gena Rowlands and Peter Falk
- Archival audio interview with director John Cassavetes by movie historians Michel Ciment and Michael Wilson
- Trailer
- Stills gallery that includes behind-the-scenes manufacturing pictures
- English subtitles for the deaf and laborious of listening to
- PLUS: An essay by critic Kent Jones and an interview with Cassavetes from 1975