In comparison to some weeks past, this week practically shows an embarrassment of riches, in both new and catalog titles. The big one this week is Wonder Woman, the one tentpole I made a point of seeing this year, and I found it to be delightful, if over-reliant on speed-ramping and undercooked in the climax. So you should get that, as well as The Big Sick, the lovely real(ish)-life rom-com with, if nothing else, two dynamite supporting performances by Holly Hunter and Ray Romano (Hunter is the one getting the brunt of the Oscar buzz, but Romano’s earnest befuddlement at the internet’s hatred of Forrest Gump is the thing from the movie that will stay with me forever). The new title you should really prioritize, though, is Kelly Reichardt’s Certain Women, a gorgeous, unshowy triptych of tales about, uh, certain women leading quiet lives in Montana. Laura Dern, Michelle Williams, and Kristen Stewart are all terrific in it, but it ultimately belongs to newcomer Lily Gladstone, who comes in late to deliver a genuine star-is-born performance. I’m a bit disappointed Criterion couldn’t get an interview with her or any of the other actors for their release of it, but don’t let that dissuade you from picking it up.

Aside from those, new titles also feature Ken Burns’ latest opus, The Vietnam War, and Ana Lily Amirpour’s devastating sophomore slump (dissected in the comments of yesterday’s Repo Man capsule) The Bad Batch. Catalog titles, meanwhile, begin with two 4K remasters of Sony sci-fi films (albeit films in extremely different registers), Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Starship Troopers. Meanwhile, The Warner Archive Collection gives John Landis’s vampire-meets-mobsters movie Innocent Blood a long-overdue widescreen release, Flicker Alley releases a gorgeous restoration of the 1925 adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World, and Kino gives us a suspiciously well-timed Blu-Ray of Peter Chelsom’s Funny Bones (it features one of Jerry Lewis’s more noteworthy dramatic performances). And, because of course they are, Twilight Time is releasing September, for those who want to blow $30 on a good contender for Woody Allen’s worst movie when you could spend just a little over twice that buying Arrow’s excellent set that packages it with six other, much better Woody Allen movies. The choice is yours, and also mine to mock.

Adventures of Captain Marvel (Kino)
Arrow: The Complete Fifth Season (Warner)
The Bad Batch (Virgil)
Bates Motel: The Complete Series (Universal)
The Big Sick (Lionsgate)
Certain Women (Criterion)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Sony)
Funny Bones (Kino)
The Hero (Lionsgate)
The Illustrated Man (Warner Archive Collection)
Innocent Blood (Warner Archive Collection)
The Lost World (Flicker Alley)
The Moderns (Shout Factory)
September (Twilight Time)
Starship Troopers 4K (Sony)
The Vietnam War (PBS)
Wonder Woman (Warner)