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Director: Henry Selick

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly:

2D Version: Laika/Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray

3D Version: 2011 3D Blu-ray

Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

2D Version: Laika/Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray

3D Version: 2011 3D Blu-ray caps 

Director: Roger Christian

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Theatrical Version: Mill Creek Blu-ray

Home Video Version: Concorde Blu-ray

Additional Info:

Japan TC Entertainment Blu-ray has exclusive extras

Director: Jan Švankmajer

Best English-Friendly & Video:

BFI Blu-ray or Athanor The Films of Jan Svankmajer Blu-ray

Best Audio:

BFI Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

BFI Blu-ray for both original Czech and English dub audio in lossless format

Additional Info:

Athanor The Films of Jan Svankmajer Blu-ray has exclusive extras

Directors: Cecil M. Hepworth & Percy Stow

Best English-Friendly & Video:

BFI Alice (1988) Blu-ray

Director: Ray Harryhausen

Best English-Friendly & Video:

OOP Ray Harryhausen: The Early Years Collection 2005 Sparkhill DVD

Director: Ray Harryhausen

Best English-Friendly & Video:

OOP Ray Harryhausen: The Early Years Collection 2005 Sparkhill DVD

Best Audio:

5.1 Mix: OOP Ray Harryhausen: The Early Years Collection 2005 Sparkhill DVD

OG Mono Mix: VHS?

Director: Ray Harryhausen

Best English-Friendly & Video:

OOP Ray Harryhausen: The Early Years Collection 2005 Sparkhill DVD

Best Audio:

5.1 Mix: OOP Ray Harryhausen: The Early Years Collection 2005 Sparkhill DVD

OG Mono Mix: VHS?

Director: Ray Harryhausen

Best English-Friendly & Video:

OOP Ray Harryhausen: The Early Years Collection 2005 Sparkhill DVD

Best Audio:

5.1 Mix: OOP Ray Harryhausen: The Early Years Collection 2005 Sparkhill DVD

OG Mono Mix: VHS?

Director: Ray Harryhausen

Best English-Friendly & Video:

OOP Ray Harryhausen: The Early Years Collection 2005 Sparkhill DVD

Best Audio:

5.1 Mix: OOP Ray Harryhausen: The Early Years Collection 2005 Sparkhill DVD

OG Mono Mix: VHS?

Director: Ray Harryhausen

Best English-Friendly & Video:

OOP Ray Harryhausen: The Early Years Collection 2005 Sparkhill DVD

Best Audio:

5.1 Mix: OOP Ray Harryhausen: The Early Years Collection 2005 Sparkhill DVD

OG Mono Mix: VHS?

Director: James Cameron

4K · Worse Than BD
Best English-Friendly:

2013 MGM Blu-ray, or 4K Blu-ray if you MUST have the mono mix, 1997 Image DVD/2001 MGM DVD for a purist version with original colors and the international mono mix

Sources: vimeo.com (opens in a new tab) · facebook.com (opens in a new tab)

Upcoming Release:

Capelight 4K Steelbook and Mediabook announced for 2026

Best Video:

2013 MGM Blu-ray for non AI transfer, 1997 Image DVD/2001 MGM DVD for a purist version with original colors and the international mono mix

Best Audio:

1991 Image Entertainment LaserDisc for the US mono mix, 2001 MGM DVD for the International mono mix

Audio Notes:

Comparison between the US and International mixes: https://vimeo.com/246332731

Additional Info:

The 4K Blu-Ray and the 2001 MGM DVD have exclusive extras.

Director: Julia Ducournau

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Curzon 4K

Additional Info:

HDR helps considerably with the deliberately murky aesthetic. VDMS encode is overall very good despite chroma noise in flashback sequences.

Director: John Schlesinger

Best English-Friendly & Video:

StudioCanal Blu-ray

Additional Info:

StudioCanal was overseen and approved by Nicolas Roeg and has a more filmic color grade than the Warner Archive Blu-Ray. 

Director: David Fincher

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony 4K Blu-ray

Additional Info:

4K Blu-ray has exclusive “unrated” audio with a small change to one line under the request of David Fincher (removed the poor dub over of frickin’ in the line “Screw it, let’s gut the f**kin’ nerd.”).

Director: Josh Safdie

Best English-Friendly & Audio:

Entertainment in Video UK 4K Blu-ray

Sources: testsbluray.com (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Entertainment in Video UK 4K Blu-ray or French Metropolitan 4K Blu-ray

Additional Info:

The UK 4K Blu-ray and Canada 4K Blu-ray both do not have the low-pass that the US 4K Blu-ray has. The UK 4K Blu-ray has some general blockiness and chroma artifacting issues, but the Canada 4K Blu-ray has at least a handful of scenes where the encode completely falls apart and massive macroblocks are visible. The Canada 4K Blu-ray also does not have hardcoded forced subtitles for the newsreel scene like the US and UK 4K Blu-rays. The grade is the same between all three discs.

See tenia's review of the French 4K Blu-ray but no comparison available

The Atmos mix is the same between the US 4K Blu-ray and the UK 4K Blu-ray save for the amount of dynamic objects: the UK 4K Blu-ray has 15 to the USA's 11.
The UK 4K Blu-ray also has a DD-EX compatibility track and a lossless version of the commentary track that is in Dolby Digital on the US and Canada 4K Blu-rays.

UK 4K plays fine in motion https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=24007274&postcount=181

Director: Brian De Palma

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray has a better encode than the Kino Lorber and Capelight 4K Blu-rays. Capelight 4K Blu-ray looks low-passed in comparison to the Arrow but is slightly closer to the Arrow in PQ than the Kino Lorber. 

Director: Bob Clark

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Scream Factory 4K Blu-ray

Upcoming Release:

UK Arrow 4K Blu-ray in December

Director: David Lynch

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

 Criterion 4K Blu-ray or Germany Plaion 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)

Upcoming Release:

UK Arrow 4K Blu-ray in December

Video Notes:

Subtle difference in encoding to the Criterion in encoding, trading blows in different shots, with Plaion taking a slight edge with less highlight blocking

Best Audio:

1993 MGM LaserDisc/2000 Region 1 MGM DVD

Audio Notes:

Criterion's 2.0 sounds muffled due to noise reduction and EQ.
Plaion's 2.0 lacks bass and has a very bright EQ, more resembling the 5.1 remix. Plaion’s 2.0 doesn't have any filtering unlike the Criterion, see https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=23831289&postcount=110

Director: John Woo

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

UK Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

> US Shout! Factory, better encoding by Engine House and redone opening credits, errors present in Shout! Factory fixed

Audio Notes:

Mono is from an alternate higher fidelity source than Shout! Factory.

Director: Chris Columbus

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly:

Disney 4K Blu-ray

Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Kaleidescape 4K Streaming

Video Notes:

Disney 4K Blu-ray has encoding issues with bitrates dipping into 40mbps, and Kaleidescape has better encoding than Disney see caps 
Old Fox Blu-ray master is stretched and sharpened