Most studios still haven’t woken up after the holiday rush, but there’s at least one essential release, Criterion’s 4K of John Sayles’ Lone Star. Sayles has seemed on the verge of a major rediscovery for years now and this is the one of his movies that’s most likely to accomplish that, a readymade masterpiece about all the deep-rooted sins of living in America in the guise of a satisfying Western murder mystery, and also a devastating adult romance whose passion can’t even be curtailed by what’s revealed about it at the end. It’s a perfect mission statement for Sayles’ larger project, that there are at least five Sayles movies I like better than it doesn’t make it any less of a magnum opus. But as much as Criterion can do some important work shining a spotlight on Sayles, the scant special features on this release (for a movie that lends itself incredibly well to academic analysis, with a cast big enough that at least one person would be happy to talk about it) tell me to not get my hopes up for releases of some of those better, but more obscure, Sayleses. City of Hope hasn’t had a home-video release of any kind since the VHS era, is very likely The Great American Movie, and still would probably only be fourth-place Sayles.

Billions: The Final Season (Showtime)
Chopper (Shout Factory)
Ernest & Célestine: A Trip to Gibberitia (Shout Factory)
Inside the Mind of Coffin Joe (Arrow)
Lone Star 4K (Criterion)
Mademoiselle (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
Radio On (Fun City)
The Raid: Redemption 4K (Sony)
Run Silent, Run Deep (Kino)
Trolls Band Together 4K (Universal) (Shosh is in this one!)