10 NEW TO NETFLIX
“Anatomy of a Fall“
“The Bad Guys 2“
“Blackberry“
“The Bling Ring“
“The Creator“
“Night Catches Us“
“Nobody 2“
“Nuremberg“
“Sisu: Road to Revenge“
“The Unknown Country“
10 NEW TO BLU-RAY/DVD
“Anaconda“
It’s almost impressive how much this movie devolves into something that’s ultimately significantly less fun or funny than the Ice Cube & Jennifer Lopez original. It starts promisingly enough, with Paul Rudd, Jack Black, Steve Zahn, and Thandiwe Newton playing old friends who try to rekindle their love for B-movie filmmaking by rebooting 1997’s “Anaconda,” but end up making an action movie themselves. When the movie turns to try to become a sort of A-budget B-movie, it collapses. The humor disappears, the action is bad, and the ensemble falls victim to their worst instincts. Watch the original instead.
Special Features
- Hiss-terical Outtakes & Bloopers
- Deleted & Extended Scenes
- A Ride Into Chaos with Jack & Paul
- Friends in the Wild: The Cast
- The Snake Charmer: Tom Gormican
- Reinventing the Legend: Anaconda
“The Blade” (Criterion)
One of the more wonderfully unpredictable inclusions in the Criterion Collection lately is this Tsui Hark banger, a movie that was once named one of the top 50 action films of all time in a Time Out poll but hasn’t really found an audience stateside. Hark, the director of classics like the “Once Upon a Time in China” series and the writer of “The Killer,” is one of the most widely recognized action masters of all time, and it’s nice to see Criterion recognize that with one of their strongest releases of the year so far. They commissioned an informative commentary by an expert on Hong Kong cinema and a new video essay, and accompanied them with a documentary featuring Hark and a Q&A from the 2011 New York Asian Film Festival.
Special Features
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- New audio commentary featuring Hong Kong cinema expert and producer Frank Djeng
- Action et vérité (2006), a documentary featuring director Tsui Hark, coscreenwriter Koan Hui, and actor Xiong Xin-xin
- New video essay by filmmakers Taylor Ramos and Tony Zhou (Every Frame a Painting)
- New York Asian Film Festival Q&A with Tsui from 2011
- Alternate English-dubbed track
- International-version opening and end credits
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by author Lisa Morton
The director of the incredible “Under the Shadow” returned in 2025 with this mind-f*ck of a movie that seems to either work for you or it doesn’t. (It didn’t work for our very own, Matt Zoller Seitz.) I saw it back at SXSW in 2025 and found it remarkably effective, a chilling two-hander with great work from Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys as parents who believe they are going to a hit-and-run involving their daughter, but may be on a very different kind of road. Blending folk horror, parental anxiety, and maybe even elements of an old-fashioned ghost story, Anvari never lets the film stray too far from its greatest asset: the deep skill sets of his talented stars.
Special Features
- Making of Hallow Road
It sinks a bit too deep into its own pretentious melancholy, but there are still so many wonderful choices in Oliver Hermanus’ follow-up to his Oscar-nominated “Living.” It’s another tentpole in Josh O’Connor’s insane 2025 in which the hardest-working actor in indie cinema stars alongside another of the strongest performers of his generation, Paul Mescal. The two play lovers who travel the American Northeast “collecting songs,” recording folk tunes from various regions in the early 20th century. It’s a delicate, character-driven piece with gorgeous craft, including fluid, lyrical cinematography from Alexander Dynan and music from Oliver Coates. The MUBI Blu-ray has a perfect video transfer, but, sadly, includes no special features. It’s nice to see that a streaming service that also releases its films on physical media gives people who want to own them a tiny bit of bonus material.
This is one of the most fascinating hits of 2025, a movie that no one on Earth would have guessed would gross close to $400 million worldwide at the box office. It turns out that the often overly serious awards season and increasingly depressing world headlines lead people to crave well-done escapism. A throwback to the domestic thrillers of the ’80s and ’90s, this entertaining flick stars Sydney Sweeney as a housemaid who takes a job with a couple played by Amanda Seyfried and Brandon Sklenar. At first, the woman of the house seems to be a bit unhinged, but this adaptation of the hit novel has more secrets to reveal. It’s imperfect, but it’s also a lot of fun, which Hollywood blockbusters seem increasingly rarely allowed to be.
Special Features
- Audio commentary with Director Paul Feig
- Audio commentary with Paul Feig and Creative Team
- A Peek Inside – Featurette
- Deleted Scenes
- From Page to Panic: Making The Housemaid
- Theatrical Trailers
- Secrets of the Winchester House: a Housemaid Tour
Bradley Cooper followed up his Oscar bait “Maestro” with a more personal, nuanced, frankly better dramedy that’s loosely based on the life of John Bishop. Will Arnett does his best film work to date as Alex, who is ending his marriage amicably with Tess, played by Laura Dern. When Alex wanders into a comedy club one night, he decides to take the open mic, discovering that he’s got a knack for the art form. When Tess discovers he’s sharing their family secrets on stage, her response isn’t what you might expect. It’s a bit too long, but Arnett and Dern are so wonderfully likable that they make it worth a look.
Special Features
- Mic Drop: Making Is This Thing On? — Go behind the scenes as filmmakers and cast open up about the inspirations behind this story of love, loss, and starting again. Get a glimpse into working with a remarkable ensemble and hear about how the team developed their comedy sets.
“Killers of the Flower Moon” (Criterion)
Thank God. It looked for a long time like the best film of 2023 would never have a physical release, stuck in the limbo of streaming originals that have kept so many of the best Apple and Netflix offerings from ever getting the treatment they deserve. Criterion’s release for Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” is their best of the year. It has a gorgeous 4K master that looks richer than it does on Apple TV, joined by informative, enlightening special features that gather not just the main players like Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone but the film’s cultural advisors and experts. As Scorsese shoots his follow-up with DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence, go back to revisit one of the best films of its era, now on physical media.
Special Features
- New 4K digital master, approved by director Martin Scorsese, with Dolby Atmos soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and two Blu-rays with the film and special features
- New documentary featuring Scorsese, actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone, author David Grann, Osage Nation Principal Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear, Osage cultural consultant John Williams, editor Thelma Schoonmaker, and other members of the cast and crew
- “WahZhaZhe”: A Song for the Osage, a new documentary illuminating the film’s final shot, featuring Scorsese, Chief Standing Bear, and six members of the Osage Nation
- Excerpted archival interview with director of photography Rodrigo Prieto
- Excerpts from the 2023 Cannes Film Festival press conference featuring Scorsese, DiCaprio, Gladstone, Chief Standing Bear, and actor Robert De Niro
- Short program on Noah Kemohah’s cover art
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing and English descriptive audio
- PLUS: Essays by critic Vinson Cunningham and film programmer Adam Piron
“Lurker“
I don’t love that MUBI is releasing bonus-free Blu-ray discs, especially when it’s for a film like Alex Russell’s “Lurker,” a thriller that feels like it would be enhanced by a commentary or featurette unpacking its fascinating themes. We’ve seen stories about obsession in the tech era, but none quite like Russell’s, which suggests that there’s a more symbiotic relationship here than a typical stalker-celebrity dynamic. Theodore Pellerin plays an ordinary guy who gets access to the inner circle of a celeb played by Archie Madekwe. This unique film won Independent Spirit Awards for Best First Screenplay and Best First Feature. Yeah, it’s that good.
“The Spongebob Squarepants Movie: Search for Squarepants“
Our esteemed editor-at-large’s 4-star review of this animated hit was one of the most popular of 2025, an ode to the boundless joy of well-done children’s entertainment, along with, well, butts. It’s crazy to think that SpongeBob SquarePants has been part of the pop culture firmament for over a quarter-century now, and that he still has enough fans for this movie to succeed at the multiplex. Sure, it’s no “Zootopia 2,” but SpongeBob still has its fans, some of whom were kids when the show was on Nickelodeon and can now show it to their own rugrats. After all, butt humor is for all ages.
Special Features
- The SpongeBob Ensemble: The Veteran Voices: Returning cast in the voiceover booths.
- The SpongeBob Ensemble: The New Crew: New cast members in the voiceover booths.
- The Flying Dutchman: Animated Artistry + Live Acting: The cast and crew on creating the Flying Dutchman.
- From Bikini Bottom To The Underworld: The production designers on animating the Underworld.
- “Big Guy” by Ice Spice: Ice Spice music video
When Charlie Shackleton’s project about one of the most famous cold cases in history fell apart, he decided to deconstruct the entire true-crime genre, making a movie about a movie that never was, illustrating the techniques filmmakers use to elevate stories of real violence. The result is one of the most captivating documentaries of 2025, a movie that doesn’t mock the true crime genre as much as pull back the curtain to reveal how it works. As a huge fan of the world of true crime, I found it a fascinating piece of work, and Music Box Films has accompanied it with several great special features that allow Shackleton to unpack his approach even further.
Special Features
- Charlie Shackleton Q&A from the Chicago Premiere
- Director Uncommentary Track
- Full Evocative B-Roll Reel
- Rejected Sundance Meet the Artist Video
- Camera test Short Film
- Letterboxd Videos about Paint Drying
- Theatrical Trailer