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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When “Godfather Part III” came out, the film was criticized as a letdown after the success of the previous film, but most of the more hateful comments were directed directly at Sofia Coppola, and her now-infamously panned performance in the film. Now, Sofia and Francis Ford Coppola opened up about the backlash and how Sofia was sort of thrown under the bus for the film.

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In a new interview with The New York Times, Sofia Coppola opened up about her panned performance.

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The third act of Francis Ford Coppola’s career could have gone any number of ways, but it’s still surprising that it’s turned into an extended rumination on the power of film editing. Though he hasn’t directed a new theatrical picture since 2011’s “Twixt” – the final film in a trilogy of independent productions – he has spent the past few years reworking earlier works, with mostly successful results. His 2019 “Apocalypse Now: Final Cut” was his second recut of his 1979 masterpiece, something of a happy medium between the commercially-minded original cut and his expansive 2001 “Redux” version; that same year, he released “The Cotton Club Encore,” a top-down reimagining of his critically drubbed and financially disastrous 1984 gangster musical that suddenly made that disappointment look like a lost classic. 

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