Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This biweekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

It’s the end of the year, so the streamers are pushing out their awards hopefuls, the home video distributors are hawking their holiday wares, and as a result, we have the most jam-packed edition of this column in its history – with an assortment of excellent new dramas, 4K upgrades of action classics, and catalog classics and art movies getting shiny new Blu-ray treatments.

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As much as I’d like to see Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan starring in a remake of Michael Mann‘s “Collateral” (in the Tom Cruise role, of course) this is not what this is. Rather, it’s the BBC Two series that has already started airing across ye olde pond, but don’t worry, the whole shebang will be on Netflix before you know it.

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It looks like BBC Two is going all “The Cloverfield Paradox” on us, with hopefully better results. Despite being toplined by Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan, the U.K. network only announced the launch of “Collateral” today — the same day the first episode goes to air. Whatever works, I guess, but a little lead time would be nice. Nonetheless, a chance to watch Mulligan dive into a complex, peak TV role is very promising and the good news is that for those of us stateside, the series will be coming to Netflix.

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Now it’s time for TV. Back at the start of December, we ran down the 100 films that we’re most looking forward to across 2018, and we picked out some festival favorites that we’ve already seen and know are worth checking out too. But even with 250 hours worth or so of promising art and entertainment, that barely scratches the surface of what people will be talking about in terms of moving images, because, well, we don’t know if you heard, but TV’s gotten really good.

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We’re in something of a drought when it comes to quality crime cinema, so it seems even longer than 2009 since Michael Mann’s last proper effort, “Public Enemies” (yes, we’re going to act as though “Blackhat” never happened). So something like “Michael Mann: People, Places, Crimes” from Michael Couvaras is a handy reminder for what we’re missing from the guy.

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Carey Mulligan has kept a bit of a low profile over the past year, but she’s got big things coming in 2017. The actress is already part of the Oscar buzz surrounding “Mudbound,” which premiered at Sundance to strong reviews and walked out of Park City with a Netflix deal. And on the horizon is Paul Dano‘s directorial debut “Wildlife,” which wrapped in the fall.

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Watch: Mashup Highlights Parallels Between Climactic Scene From 'Collateral' & Shanghai Sequence From 'Skyfall'

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Trivia: Michael Mann Originally Developed 'Collateral' As A Movie For Adam Sandler And Russell Crowe

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Retrospective: The Films Of Michael Mann

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