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The best release of every film, picked by the community. How we decide

6,192 films · page 141 of 310

Director: Simon West

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray

Director: Carroll Ballard

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Germany Capelight Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

Criterion

Audio Notes:

Criterion has the original stereo

Director: Sharon Maguire

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Universal Blu-ray

Director: Beeban Kidron

Best English-Friendly & Video:

UK Universal Blu-ray

Director: John Carpenter

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Italy Koch Media Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Italy Koch Media Blu-ray is not stretched compared to US Shout! Factory and UK Arrow Blu-rays

As for the color grade, unsure whether the Italy or US/UK Blu-ray is more accurate to the theatrical colors.

Best Audio:

Arrow Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

Arrow Blu-ray has lossless original stereo

Additional Info:

Shout! Factory Blu-ray has the most extras with a lossless isolated score

Director: Jan de Bont

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Uncut: Germany Leonine 4K Blu-ray

Cut: Paramount 4K Blu-ray

Directors: Clyde Geronimi & Wilfred Jackson & Hamilton Luske

Best English-Friendly:

Unrestored: 35mm scans or 1990 Disney LaserDisc

Restored: 1998 Disney LaserDisc/VHS and DVD and Blu-ray versions

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Unrestored: 35mm scans or 1990 Disney LaserDisc

Restored: Disney Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Unrestored: 35mm scans or 1990 Disney LaserDisc

Restored: 1998 Disney LaserDisc/VHS and DVD and Blu-ray versions are edited (colors altered, DNR applied, and animation errors fixed)

Best Audio:

35mm scans, possibly?

Director: Ang Lee

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Universal Blu-ray

Director: David Twohy

Best English-Friendly & Video:

UK Momentum Blu-ray

Director: Michael Morris

Best English-Friendly & Video:

US Universal Blu-ray

Director: Chuck Jones

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Sources: fanrestore.com (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

1994 MGM LaserDisc

Audio Notes:

1994 MGM LaserDisc with its caveat being audio errors that were present on every home video release until the 4K Blu-ray. See here.

Director: Otakar Vávra

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly:

Deaf Crocodile 4K Blu-ray

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

Best Video:

Deaf Crocodile 4K Blu-ray see nic review

Best Audio:

Restored: Deaf Crocodile 4K Blu-ray
Unrestored: Czech PAL DVD

Audio Notes:

Preferences will vary, the restored track sounds good, but not necessarily faithful to the original elements.

Director: Sam Raimi

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Scream Factory 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Universal LaserDisc [40978]

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Best English-Friendly & Video:

2024 Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray

Director: Jon M. Chu

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

2D: Universal 4K Blu-ray

3D: Apple Vision Pro

Director: Tim Miller

Best English-Friendly & Video:

US Paramount 4K Blu-ray

Director: Federico Fellini

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Audio Notes:

Image Entertainment DVD is slightly better than Criterion 4K Blu-ray/Blu-ray/DVD (all basically the same)
Other Blu-ray releases are all much worse.

Director: Tsui Hark

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly:

MVD 4K Blu-ray

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

Best Video:

MVD 4K Blu-ray see caps

Director: Alexander Witt

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony US 4K Blu-ray Steelbook included in 4K Blu-ray Steelbook Collection

Video Notes:

Sony US 4K Blu-ray Steelbook included in 4K Blu-ray Steelbook Collection > France Metropolitian 4K Blu-ray (slightly better encoding on the Sony)

Additional Info:

Commentaries for the extended cut are only found on the Germany Constantin Film Blu-ray

Director: Wes Craven

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB 4K Blu-Ray