Another eclectic week, including the one semi-restrained Harmony Korine movie, an Arrow 4K of Guy Ritchie’s The Man From U.N.C.L.E. that seems a little out-of-place even within Arrow’s “we’ll release whatever” philosophy, and one of the weirdest Jonathan Demme movies you could release on 4K. There are just two new releases, and the first is The First Omen, which is quite good (with maybe the most vile image I’ll see in a movie this year) until it shifts gears to being an Omen prequel. The other is The Sweet East, which has every sign of being an insufferable “ha ha shit’s fucked up” look at modern America (particularly if you’re familiar with Nick Pinkerton’s Twitter presence) but is instead mostly just funny and always a visual triumph from Safdies/Alex Ross Perry DP-turned-director Sean Price Williams. It’s been given an amusingly high profile by the presence of rising stars Ayo Edebiri (very funny in it, of course) and Jacob Elordi (lightly self-parodying until something very funny happens to him), but even they’re in no danger of stealing it from lead Talia Ryder, doing some very impressive blank-slate work as the picaresque heroine learning about the danger of hiding behind other people’s masks. And yet she might be second-place to Simon Rex, cashing in on that Sean Baker comeback to play the hilarious, deluded face of both neo-Nazis and insufferable academics considering sleeping with teenagers.

Ali G Indahouse (Shout Factory)
Can’t Stop the Music 4K (Kino)
Election 4K (Paramount)
Ennio (Music Box)
The First Omen (Disney)
House of Gucci 4K (Shout Factory)
In & Out 4K (Kino)
Last Embrace 4K (Cinématographe)
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. 4K (Arrow)
Mister Lonely (IFC)
The Nico Mastorakis Collection (Arrow)
No Way Out 4K (Kino)
The Plot Against Harry (The Film Desk)
Rat Film (Memory)
Roadkill (Canadian International Pictures)
Run Lola Run 4K (Sony)
Six in Paris (Icarus)
The Sweet East (Utopia)
Ted Lasso: The Complete Series (Warner)
Twisted (Kino)