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Director: Jean-Luc Godard

2026: #521
2025: #506
2024: #493
2023: #484
2022: #484
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion 4k transfer

Director: Sidney Lumet

2026: #522
2025: #529
2024: #533
2023: #532
2022: #532
Best English-Friendly:

Kino Lorber US / Capelight DE 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)

Best Video:

1.85:1: Kino Lorber 4K  / Capelight 4K

1.66:1: Criterion 4K

Video Notes:

1.85:1: Kino Lorber 4K  / Capelight 4K

1.66:1: Criterion 4K but low pass filtered

Comparison between the 4Ks, Criterion on the AR choice

Audio Notes:

Other discs have unnecessary filtering and sound worse, the difference isn't substantial but audible

Director: Jiří Menzel

2026: #523
2025: #511
2024: #518
2023: #512
2022: #512
Best Video:

Arrow Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Arrow has 4k transfer

Director: Steven Spielberg

2026: #524
2025: #597
2024: #595
2023: #619
2022: #619

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

Best Video:

2025 Universal 4K Trilogy Steelbook / 2026 standalone

Video Notes:

2025 Universal 4K Trilogy Steelbook / 2026 standalone is better than previous disappointing 2022 4K Blu-ray (excessive DNR). Not a whole new scan but the grain has been left mostly intact.

Best Audio:

Cinema DTS

Audio Notes:

Cinema DTS is OG 5.1 mix.

Otherwise: 2022 4K Blu-ray’s DTS:X remix is more faithful than 2026’s Atmos remix.

3D Blu-ray’s 7.1 remix has reportedly less distortion than the OG 5.1 mix, and is presumably more faithful than the DTS:X remix.

Director: František Vláčil

2026: #525
2025: #507
2024: #502
2023: #500
2022: #500
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion 4k transfer

Best Audio:

Czech National Film Archive Blu-ray (slightly)

Director: David Cronenberg

2026: #526
2025: #523
2024: #513
2023: #523
2022: #523

Director: Wim Wenders

2026: #527
2025: #530
2024: #519
2023: #519
2022: #519
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

Carlotta

Video Notes:

Carlotta > Criterion >> Curzon encoding

Director: Elia Kazan

2026: #528
2025: #525
2024: #534
2023: #516
2022: #516
Best Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Amazon Streaming

Director: George Miller

2026: #529
2025: #573
2024: #578
2023: #588
2022: #588
Best Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray second pressing ONLY; UPC: 883929 789993

Director: William Friedkin

2026: #530
2025: #526
2024: #568
2023: #578
2022: #578
Best English-Friendly:

2012 Fox remastered Blu-ray

Best Video:

Fox remastered Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Fox remastered Blu-ray mono track

Additional Info:

This disc defaults to a lossless 5.1 remix, however in the setup menu, the original mono mix is included as a lossy alternative for the first time since the dawn of home video. The film was given a stereo remix very early on and remained stuck that way for decades.

Director: Robert Altman

2026: #531
2025: #513
2024: #520
2023: #504
2022: #504

Director: Robert Wise

2026: #532
2025: #558
2024: #551
2023: #579
2022: #579
Best Video & Audio:

Disney 4K Blu-ray

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

Audio Notes:

Disney 4K Atmos is great, a reference quality track. It's a very slight remix (music seems to be from a better source), but it's completely seamless and faithful to the original, better fidelity than anything since the 1994 30th Anniversary Edition LaserDisc.

All DVDs (and 2010 Blu-ray) sound far worse than the 4K Blu-ray/LaserDisc and have various missing sound cues.

Director: David Lean

2026: #533
2025: #545
2024: #561
2023: #559
2022: #559
Best Video:

WB Blu-ray

Upcoming Release:

Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray Dec 1st

Director: George Roy Hill

2026: #534
2025: #560
2024: #571
2023: #572
2022: #572

Video format: 4K Streaming

Best Video:

4K Streaming

Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf

2026: #535
2025: #512
2024: #500
2023: #491
2022: #491

Video format: HD Streaming

Best Video:

HD Streaming for rent on Vimeo or New Yorker DVD

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

Video Notes:

HD Streaming for rent on Vimeo (seems to be legit, from director's own company) or New Yorker DVD

Director: David Fincher

2026: #536
2025: #554
2024: #558
2023: #580
2022: #580
Best English-Friendly:

2025 WB 4K Blu-ray or the 1997 New Line DVD (CCE colors)/Netherlands Blu-ray (2000 restoration) for a purist version

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

Best Video:

2025 WB 4K Blu-ray, better detail and everything, or the 1997 New Line DVD (CCE colors)/Netherlands Blu-ray (2000 restoration) for a purist version

Video Notes:
  • 4K caveat: A variety of VFX set pieces and touch-ups were added in scenes throughout the film, probably for continuity or consistency, although they might be unnecessary or revisionist. Clouds are added to clear sky of the last act.

  • AI is used to fix an unwanted camera movement in one scene.

  • some shots had been further stabilized, resulting in strange motion blur.

Best Audio:

Cinema DTS

Audio Notes:

Also has missing dialog intact.
But it can be argued that the Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray 5.1 (remix) is technically a better mix.

Additional Info:

More info on the different color grades over the years: https://notonbluray.com/blog/the-case-of-se7en/

Director: Martin Scorsese

2026: #537
2025: #522
2024: #530
2023: #551
2022: #551

Director: Woody Allen

2026: #538
2025: #549
2024: #543
2023: #538
2022: #538
Best Video:

Arrow vs MGM Blu-ray?

Director: Richard Linklater

2026: #539
2025: #533
2024: #544
2023: #544
2022: #544

Director: Sam Wood

2026: #540
2025: #543
2024: #579
2023: #571
2022: #571
Best English-Friendly:

WB Blu-ray

Best Video:

WB 4k transfer