2001 on 4K UHD

dir. Ron Howard

S-Tier Universal 4K. Standard edition releasing in February 2026 at the lower $20 USD price point that Universal has been using lately.

Universal Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Ridley Scott

S-Tier Sony 4K. Ridley Scott's war film. Someone bought it and the case was empty, which is a recurring Amazon complaint across many titles.

Sony Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Ridley Scott

S-Tier Universal 4K. Hopkins as Lecter in Florence. Universal's catalog 4K.

Universal Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. David Lynch

Lynch's death is still pulling people back to the Criterion disc. Someone picked it up at Barnes and Noble this week, and it sits on nearly every wishlist going into the Criterion flash sale. The Criterion 4K is S-Tier.

StudioCanal · 20th Anniversary Collector's Edition

dir. Steven Soderbergh

S-Tier Warner Bros. 4K. Soderbergh's heist film, and the HDR is really good. Soderbergh is meticulous with digital tools but lets his older films look like film on disc, which collectors appreciate. The trilogy 4K set makes a good gift.

Warner Bros. · Steelbook (4K + Blu-ray)

dir. Joel Coen

A tale of murder, crime and punishment set in the summer of 1949. Ed Crane, a barber in a small California town, is dissatisfied with his life, but his wife Doris' infidelity and a mysterious opportunity presents him with a chance to change it.

Criterion Collection · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Wes Anderson

Box-set-only in the Wes Anderson Archive from Criterion, and the specific disc has a known defect in the cemetery scene that Criterion will replace on request. The standalone 4K hasn't been announced. This is the film collectors are most vocal about wanting individually, since it's the one most people treat as his best.

Criterion Collection · 4K Box Set (The Wes Anderson Archive)

dir. J.B. Rogers

S-Tier 4K. Same story as the first one. Universal gave it a clean transfer.

88 Films · Deluxe Collector's Edition

dir. Christophe Gans

S-Tier StudioCanal 4K. French martial arts horror. People who got early copies were excited about the transfer.

StudioCanal · Steelbook (Director's Cut)

dir. Hironobu Sakaguchi

S-Tier Sony 4K. The 2001 video game adaptation. An early CGI curiosity on 4K.

Sony Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Jacques Audiard

Early Audiard, before A Prophet and Dheepan made him a festival fixture. Criterion picked it up alongside Beat That My Heart Skipped, and collectors who know those later films are backfilling. Thin discussion but the people who have seen it tend to recommend it as an underrated entry in his catalog.

Criterion Collection · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Dominic Sena

Rogue agent Gabriel Shear is determined to get his mitts on $9 billion stashed in a secret Drug Enforcement Administration account. He wants the cash to fight terrorism, but lacks the computer skills necessary to hack into the government mainframe. Enter Stanley Jobson, a n'er-do-well encryption expert who can log into anything.

Arrow Video · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Alejandro Amenábar

Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in the face of strange events and disturbing visions.

StudioCanal · 4K + Blu-ray (United Kingdom)

dir. Claire Denis

Newlyweds Shane and June arrive in Paris for their honeymoon. In the process of trying to find a cure for his strange, bloodthirsty disease, Shane stumbles upon the story of a doctor and his flesh eating wife.

Eureka Entertainment · 4K + Blu-ray (United Kingdom)

dir. Béla Tarr

A naive young man witnesses an escalation of violence in his small hometown following the arrival of a mysterious circus attraction.

Curzon Film · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Dario Argento

An elderly and retired police detective and a young amateur sleuth team up to find a serial killer whom has resumed a killing spree in Turin, Italy after a 17-year hiatus.

dir. John Carpenter

Scream Factory's February 2025 Collector's Edition with Dolby Vision, region-free 4K. The new transfer pulls the red-Mars desert color out of what looked like a flat orange wash on the old DVD. Two slipcover variants exist, theatrical poster art on the standard pressing and CRP Group artwork on the Amazon variant. An Amazon-exclusive Limited Edition Steelbook shipped August 2025.

Scream Factory · Collector's Edition

dir. James Isaac

In the year 2455, Old Earth is now a contaminated planet abandoned for centuries -- a brown world of violent storms, toxic landmasses and poisonous seas. Yet humans have returned to the deadly place that they once fled, not to live, but to research the ancient, rusting artifacts of the long-gone civilizations. But it's not the harmful environment that could prove fatal to the intrepid, young explorers who have just landed on Old Earth. For them, it's Friday the 13th, and Jason lives!

Arrow Video · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson

It ain't easy bein' green -- especially if you're a likable (albeit smelly) ogre named Shrek. On a mission to retrieve a gorgeous princess from the clutches of a fire-breathing dragon, Shrek teams up with an unlikely compatriot -- a wisecracking donkey.

dir. Guillermo del Toro

Del Toro considers this his most personal film and the companion piece to Pan's Labyrinth. Sony's 4K disc uses a new scan supervised by Guillermo Navarro, and the amber-toned Spanish Civil War photography translates well to HDR.

Sony Pictures · 4K Box Set (Sony Pictures Classics 30th Anniversary 4K UltraHD Collection)

dir. Peter Jackson

A-Tier Warner Bros. 4K. The extended editions box set is the one most people buy. Individual steelbooks exist at Walmart and Best Buy with the same disc. The color grading sparked debate early on for being warmer than the theatrical release.

Warner Bros. · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Frank Oz

An aging thief hopes to retire and live off his ill-gotten wealth when a young kid convinces him into doing one last heist.

dir. Antoine Fuqua

On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.

Warner Home Video · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Richard Kelly

Arrow's 2021 Limited Edition is the canonical 4K with both the theatrical cut and director's cut on disc. Solid A-Tier video with strong extras. Best Buy has been moving the standard 4K case for $24 lately while the boxset variant hits $35. The Arrow disc has had QC issues. Collectors have spent weeks pinging Arrow to replace discs that arrived damaged. The Michael Andrews score and the Gary Jules "Mad World" cover sit in a clean DTS-HD 5.1 mix.

Arrow Video · Limited Edition

dir. Joe Johnston

A-Tier Universal 4K. The weakest Jurassic Park, but Universal's new Dolby Vision remaster actually fixed the color timing issues from the original 4K. The old transfer had a weird tan cast that the new version corrected. There's debate about whether the new Atmos remix is too heavy-handed compared to the original DTS-X mix. The remastered disc was $14.99 USD on Amazon pre-order, which is basically impulse territory.

Universal Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Cameron Crowe

David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribly disfigured in a car accident. That's just the beginning of his troubles as the lines between illusion and reality, between life and death, are blurred.

Paramount Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Rob Cohen

Dominic Toretto is a Los Angeles street racer suspected of masterminding a series of big-rig hijackings. When undercover cop Brian O'Conner infiltrates Toretto's iconoclastic crew, he falls for Toretto's sister and must choose a side: the gang or the LAPD.

dir. Simon West

Orphaned heiress, English aristocrat and intrepid archaeologist, Lara Croft, embarks on a dangerous quest to retrieve the two halves of an ancient artifact which controls time before it falls into the wrong hands. As an extremely rare planetary alignment is about to occur for the first time in 5,000 years, the fearless tomb raider will have to team up with rival adventurers and sworn enemies to collect the pieces, while time is running out. But, in the end, who can harness the archaic talisman's unlimited power?

dir. Rod Lurie

A court-martialed general rallies together 1200 inmates to rise against the system that put him away.

dir. Brian Helgeland

William Thatcher, a knight's peasant apprentice, gets a chance at glory when the knight dies suddenly mid-tournament. Posing as a knight himself, William won't stop until he's crowned tournament champion—assuming matters of the heart don't get in the way.

dir. Steven Spielberg

David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David.

Warner Bros. · 4K Ultra HD

dir. John Singleton

The story of Jody, a misguided, 20-year-old African-American who is really just a baby boy finally forced-kicking and screaming to face the commitments of real life. Streetwise and jobless, he has not only fathered two children by two different women-Yvette and Peanut but still lives with his own mother. He can't seem to strike a balance or find direction in his chaotic life.

dir. Sharon Maguire

Bridget Jones is an average woman struggling against expectations. As a New Year's resolution, Bridget decides to take control of her life, starting by keeping a diary in which she will always tell the complete truth. Her charming boss takes an interest in her, and she cannot stop running into a rather disagreeable acquaintance whom Bridget cannot help finding quietly attractive.

dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

Paramount Pictures · 4K Ultra HD

dir. Chris Columbus

Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard—with a place waiting for him at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As he learns to harness his newfound powers with the help of the school's kindly headmaster, Harry uncovers the truth about his parents' deaths—and about the villain who's to blame.

Warner Bros. · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Takashi Miike

As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of.

dir. Kevin Smith

When Jay and Silent Bob learn that their comic-book alter egos, Bluntman and Chronic, have been sold to Hollywood as part of a big-screen movie that leaves them out of any royalties, the pair travels to Tinseltown to sabotage the production.

Paramount Pictures · 4K Ultra HD

dir. Michael Herbig

Abahachi, Chief of the Apache Indians, and his blood brother Ranger maintain peace and justice in the Wild West. One day, Abahachi needs to take up a credit from the Shoshone Indians to finance his tribe's new saloon. Unfortunately Santa Maria, who sold the saloon, betrays Abahachi, takes the money and leaves. Soon, the Shoshones are on the warpath to get their money back, and Abahachi is forced to organize it quickly.

dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien

Vicky recalls her romances with her exes Hao Hao and Jack in the neon-lit clubs of Taipei.

dir. Pete Docter

Lovable Sulley and his wisecracking sidekick Mike Wazowski are the top scare team at Monsters, Inc., the scream-processing factory in Monstropolis. When a little girl named Boo wanders into their world, it's the monsters who are scared silly, and it's up to Sulley and Mike to keep her out of sight and get her back home.

dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa

In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lures some of its inhabitants desperately trying to escape the sadness and isolation of the modern world.

dir. Hayao Miyazaki

A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family.

dir. Sion Sono

When the bizarre mass suicide of 54 high school girls throwing themselves in front of a subway train appears to instigate a string of suicides around the country, Detective Kuroda strives to find the answer, which isn't as simple as he had hoped.

dir. Stephen Sommers

Rick and Evelyn O’Connell, along with their 8-year-old son Alex, discover the key to the legendary Scorpion King’s might: the fabled Bracelet of Anubis. Unfortunately, a newly resurrected Imhotep has designs on the bracelet as well, and isn’t above kidnapping its new bearer, Alex, to gain control of Anubis’s otherworldly army.