A lot of people have been complaining about Criterion announcing The Shape of Water, and they’re probably right to. But one look at their main competition releasing the two Sam Worthington Clash of the Titans movies on 4K and it doesn’t seem quite so bad. And for their part, Criterion is releasing a genuine hidden and rediscovered gem this week, Martha Coolidge’s searing quasi-documentary about her rape, Not a Pretty Picture. Elsewhere, there’s two different farm thrillers (Prime Cut and Let Him Go, the latter I would’ve never heard of without my friends saying it’s really good), the Gordon Willis-shot western Bad Company, the wrong Deborah Kaplan-Harry Elfont movie getting a 4K rerelease (it’s pretty good, though), and the Blu-Ray debut of Death to Smoochy, whose maniacal kids show-meets-Dario Argento aesthetic deserves to be as eye-searingly clear as possible.
L’appartement (Kino)
Bad Company (Fun City)
Can’t Hardly Wait 4K (Sony)
Death to Smoochy (Shout Factory)
The Last Unicorn 4K (Shout Factory)
Let Him Go 4K (Universal)
Not a Pretty Picture (Criterion)
Prime Cut 4K (Kino)
When Titans Ruled the Earth 4K (Clash of the Titans 4K / Wrath of the Titans 4K) (Arrow)