I’ve not seen a movie beg you to call it into question like The Zone of Interest has, and yet almost every criticism I’ve read of it seems rooted in a “nuh uh!” to its existence rather than engaging with anything it’s actually communicating (many of the “this is actually centrist as hell” takes did not hold water past Glazer’s most widely-seen remarks about the movie). I had some skepticism before I saw this about it taking an art-installation approach for this subject matter, but its effect is so bruising and nightmarish because Jonathan Glazer gives it as much stunning craft and intricate construction as his previous features and beer commercials. It’s beautiful, especially the scenes that look like an X-ray of Hell, and you’ve just gotta sit with everything that tells you about how cinema may only be able to inherently (even if just visually) romanticize the Holocaust rather than face it head-on. I have some quibbles with the execution of this horrible, looming object, but I am powerless against its brute-force attack and the questions it foists upon me. I saw it in a theater that’s part of an outdoor shopping mall, and now it can be yours in stunning 4K from the overpriced boutique shop of the “cool” indie distributor, which will soon also sell the movie whose main purpose is to stop closeted trans kids from killing themselves.

Zone leads a week with a lot that’s at least interesting, even if that interest is only in how ghoulish and disrespectful Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Amy Winehouse biopic sounds, or how ghoulish and disrespectful the A.I.-created “4K transfer” of Jaws 3D looks. The very most interesting of them all is The Linguini Incident, the absurd New York art-world crime-comedy with the powerful lead duo of Rosanna Arquette (as sad and goofy as ever) and David Bowie, from the director of The Matador and several great Girls episodes. This first release of it in even acceptable quality is a 4K-restored new director’s cut, and the version I saw certainly had room for improvement in its balancing of all its plates, like a less disciplined Desperately Seeking Susan. But its pleasures, from Buck Henry and Andre Gregory as gay, cackling Mr. Burnses to a single sequence about a troupe of radical lesbian magicians, are all that’s stuck with me, and they can only look even better in a slightly tighter package.

Anselm 3D (Criterion)
Back to Black (Universal)
The Double Crossers (Eureka)
Ezra (Decal)
The Fall Guy 4K (Universal)
Farewell My Concubine 4K (Criterion)
Jaws: The Revenge 4K (Universal)
Jaws 3 4K + 3D (Universal)
The Lady from Shanghai 4K (Sony)
The Linguini Incident (MVD)
Risky Business 4K (Criterion)
The Strangers: Chapter 1 4K (Lionsgate)
The Zone of Interest 4K (A24)