This week provides a little something for everybody in all regards, starting with two diametrically-opposed but similarly superb new releases. Green Room sees Blue Ruin director Jeremy Saulnier making that film’s expert noose-tightening, black comedy, and gorgeous imagery look like amateur-hour with as propulsive, tight, and singularly unpleasant a thriller as has been made recently (I imagine the unpleasantness is dialed up for first-time viewers after star Anton Yelchin’s tragic death, possibly to the point of it being near-unwatchable). Meanwhile, Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some!! is exactly as loose and shaggy as Green Room is taut, making even the likes of Dazed and Confused and Boyhood look like Chinatown in terms of plotting. But when there’s no plot, that just leaves much room for Linklaterian dialogue/amateur philosophy and scenarios, which make this easily the most delightful film of the year thus far, aided by an insanely strong cast of should-be future stars (if Glen Powell’s wonderful philosopher king performance here doesn’t get him ten roles by next year, this system has failed). And aside from those two, there’s also Jia Zhangke’s Mountains May Depart to wash out the taste of the latest installment of the Divergent series stinking up the new titles. In terms of catalog titles, Criterion is giving you more reasons to spend your hard-earned dollar on the Barnes & Noble half-off sale with their reissue of the horror classic Carnival of Souls, sporting a pristine new restoration and some new features (although it is missing the director’s cut from the previous DVD), Twilight Time is trying to convince to keep begrudgingly supporting them, with releases of Woody Allen’s Zelig (although region-free folks would be best skipping that and waiting for Arrow’s inevitable box set of it and Allen’s other early-to-mid-80s work), The Black Stallion Returns (which may not seem all that great until you realize that the cinematographer team behind it includes Carlo Di Palma, Haskell Wexler, and Caleb Deschanel), and The Gang’s All Here, the Cohen Film Collection is continuing to do right by Maurice Pialat by giving his Van Gogh a U.S. Blu-Ray release, Kino is releasing the seminal western The Ox-Bow Incident, and the Warner Archive Collection is putting out the first two seasons of iZombie.

Allegiant (Lionsgate, also in 4K)
Belladonna of Sadness (Cinelicious)
The Black Stallion Returns (Limited Edition to 3000) (Twilight Time)
Carnival of Souls (Criterion)
Cat in the Brain (Limited Edition to 3000) (Grindhouse Releasing)
Crimes of Passion (Arrow)
Divergent 4K (Lionsgate)
Everybody Wants Some!! (Paramount)
The Gang’s All Here (Limited Edition to 3000) (Twilight Time)
Green Room (Lionsgate)
Insurgent 4K (Lionsgate)
iZombie: The Complete First Season (Warner Archive Collection)
iZombie: The Complete Second Season (Warner Archive Collection)
Just Desserts: The Making of Creepshow (Synapse Films)
Miracles from Heaven (Sony)
Mountains May Depart (Kino)
The Ox-Bow Incident (Kino)
The Russia House (Limited Edition to 3000) (Twilight Time)
Silk Stockings (Warner Archive Collection)
Van Gogh (Cohen)
Yellow Sky (Kino)
Zelig (Limited Edition to 3000) (Twilight Time)