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.

After a bit of a break, we’re back with a big batch of new disc and streaming titles, including the latest from Pixar, a pair of stylish shoot-‘em-ups, two crime classics in 4K, a handful of blistering Westerns, and much, much more.

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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 a busy week on the new release front, with a handful of hits getting the 4K treatment, hidden gems and certified classics hitting Blu-ray, and one of the year’s very best movies making its Netflix bow.

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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 weekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching. 

This week: One of last year’s big Oscar winners, an indie drama, fierce documentary that should’ve been at this year’s Oscars, and catalog titles running the gamut from Scorsese to Stallone.

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As this maddening list attests—one that nearly broke us trying to order “properly”—putting together a Best of Decade list is dangerous work. There’s just a million factors to consider, a million people and look, we anguish and anguish and at the end of the day it’s all arbitrary anyhow, so don’t give us shit!

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As the 100 Best Films of The 2010s Decade proved, no matter what you claim about the state of cinema and the sky is falling, the best of the best was unimpeachable.

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One of the films that seemed poised for an awards season run, but has seemingly been left behind, is David Lowery’s “The Old Man & the Gun.” Even with positive reviews, as well as, great performances from Robert Redford and Sissy Spacek, ‘Old Man’ just isn’t a major part of the Oscar conversation, and probably fell under the radar of film fans after it hit theaters.

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Robert Redford has won just about every award and accolade that can be given to someone in the entertainment industry. He’s won Oscars, Golden Globes, and a BAFTA. He’s earned lifetime achievement awards from the Academy and the Screen Actors Guild. But it appears that Redford has another accolade he’d like to add to his storied career — shortest retirement in history.

Back in August, the actor-filmmaker said that he was going to retire from acting after his latest film “The Old Man & The Gun.” He had plenty of reasons for it and seemed adamant that now was the right time to walk away from being in front of the camera.

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TELLURIDE – If “The Old Man & The Gun” really is Robert Redford’s swan song than the iconic actor could not have asked for a better way to end a venerable acting career that has spanned almost 60 years. The David Lowery-directed drama debuted at the 2018 Telluride Film Festival Friday afternoon and will have many wondering if Redford should reconsider his recent retirement announcement.

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As if anticipation wasn’t high already with David Lowery’s upcoming film, “The Old Man & The Gun,” the added story of Robert Redford’s retirement makes the film even more interesting. And judging by the new trailer, there’s this meta feeling throughout the footage that just seems to signal that Redford’s choice to leave acting behind after this role might have been part of his performance.

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The trailer, courtesy of Yahoo, gives viewers the basic premise of the “mostly true story.” The titular “old man,” played by Robert Redford, is a seasoned bank robber that used the “gun” to help pull off over a dozen heists.

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You can’t fault Robert Redford for wanting to walk into the sunset and call it a day. The legendary actor, director, and overall Hollywood icon has pretty much done it all, as it relates to the entertainment industry. Redford has collected the trophies, got the big movie roles, and even started one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world. So, it should be no surprise that Redford is ready to retire.

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Netflix has released, via Vanity Fair, the first full trailer for the Jane Fonda and Robert Redford reunion “Our Souls at Night“. The film, directed by Ritesh Batra, is set to be released at the end of this month and premiered a couple of weeks back at the Venice Film Festival The film is based on the final novel by Kent Haruf and written by “The Spectacular Now” scribes Scott Neustadter and Michael H.

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KARLOVY VARY — Director David Lowery is currently on a global tour as his Sundance smash, “A Ghost Story,” prepares for release in a number of territories including the United States on July 7.  The filmmaker hasn’t gotten much rest, however, as his next project, “The Old Man and the Gun,” just completed shooting last month and he’ll immediately head back into the editing room when his ‘Ghost’ promotional duties are over.

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Roaring into theaters this Friday is “The Fate Of The Furious” (read our review!), the eighth (eighth!) in the enduring, and somehow ever-growing, “The Fast And The Furious” franchise. The series has consistently added new blood into the mix as a way of keeping things fresh, with Dwayne Johnson, Kurt Russell and Jason Statham among the big-ticket additions to the series, but the upcoming movie comes with something of a credibility boost, with not one but two Oscar-winning actresses getting in on the fun, in the shape of Charlize Theron and Helen Mirren.

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You want to resist the urge to reduce things to a black and white view, but if you were going to look at anyone in the indie movie scene and say there were winning, well, frankly, David Lowery is winning. The filmmaker behind “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints” is arguably one of the best directors working today. And he’s on a total roll. The jump to the big leagues with Disney’s “Pete’s Dragon” was no sell-out move or film where the studio took control; Lowery’s adaptation of the cartoon was genuinely tender and heartfelt.

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While “The Discovery” landed at the Sundance Film Festival last month boasting star power — Rooney Mara, Jason Segel, Robert Redford — and a nifty premise, reaction was mixed on the sci-fi movie. But we’ll watch anything with that cast, and we can’t help but continue to be intrigued by the film, which now has a new trailer.

Charlie McDowell (“The One I Love“) directs this story about a doctor who discovers proof of the afterlife, and the deadly consequences that follow.

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PARK CITY – Is there life after death? It’s a question that’s been a recurring theme in both the written word and visual arts for as long as man has walked he earth. What is rarely considered, however, is how the world would react if definitive proof of some sort of afterlife was found. That’s the initial and, frankly, most interesting conceit of Charlie McDowell’s “The Discovery” which debuted Friday night at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.

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It’s a new year, which means a whole new wave of original Netflix productions are getting ready to be unleashed, and while the streaming powerhouse hasn’t quite made the same awards season dent as their rivals at Amazon, they’re also playing a different game. Netflix’s first concern is getting movies onto their platform as soon as possible for the convenience of their customer base, which means something like “The Discovery” likely won’t be playing on a big screen near you, despite having the kind of talent traditional studios would kill for.

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As a big fan of the novels by Kent Haruf, I’m really wary of his work being adapted. Granted I can’t vouch for Hallmark‘s 2004 take on “Plainsong,” but generally speaking, the author’s work hinges on small moments, with heartbreak and drama unfolding in the everyday modulations of regular life. And bringing that to the big screen, or Netflix, where emotional beats are often decorated by performances and score selections and more, could bring the wrong tone to the source material.

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At 80 years old, with decades in the business, there’s likely very few things Robert Redford has left to accomplish. He’s been nominated for an Oscar three times, winning once (Best Director for “Ordinary People“) while also the recipient of the Honorary Oscar in 2002. The filmmaker created the Sundance Film Festival, has been recognized for his charitable and political work, and probably has enough other awards and honors to fill a house.

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This week, “Doctor Strange” (it’s pretty good! Read our review) becomes the 14th movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, an expansive, pop-culture behemoth that’s also expanded to television. From the very beginning, these movies have attracted a high calibre of talent — Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow and Jeff Bridges in the first “Iron Man,” for instance — but they’ve only become more and more magnetic to big stars as they’ve become better and better (and, presumably, paid their actors more and more), arguably culminating in “Doctor Strange,” which with a cast including Benedict Cumberbatch, Tilda Swinton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams, Mads Mikkelsen and Benedict Wong, could put many awards movies to shame.

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It can be easy to be cynical about Disney’s relentless franchise machine, a highly lucrative process that sees the studio reimagine, remake or prequel-/sequel-ize valued properties with big budgets and stars. While Disney cares about their legacy titles, they aren’t precious about them, and instead aim to reach a new generation of viewers with versions of those films, or continued storylines, that have the bells and whistles of contemporary tentpoles. From the outside, it can seem like a soulless enterprise, which makes “Pete’s Dragon” all the more remarkable.

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Disney has had a huge amount of success with recent reimaginings of their classic catalog of films. “Cinderella,” “Maleficent,” and, most recently, “The Jungle Book” have made a lot of money for the studio, and “Pete’s Dragon” hopes to continue that success when the film, starring Bryce Dallas Howard, Karl Urban, and Robert Redford, opens later this summer.

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There will be no shortage of big creatures for families to choose from this summer. Next month, Steven Spielberg brings “The BFG” to multiplexes across the country, and in August, Disney has their own movie about a small kid with a giant friend.

READ MORE: The 40 Most Anticipated Movies Of Summer 2016

David Lowery has made the blockbuster leap, going from indie “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints” to big studio picture “Pete’s Dragon,” a reboot of 1977 live action/animated musical, just sans the music.

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Robert Redford, Rooney Mara And Jason Segel Team For Sci-Fi Romance ‘The Discovery’

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Watch: First Trailer For David Lowery's 'Pete's Dragon' Remake With Bryce Dallas Howard, Robert Redford, And More

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Watch Robert Redford As Dan Rather In First Clip From ‘Truth’ Also Starring Cate Blanchett

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