The marquee titles this week is Deadpool 2, but who gives a shit? The real gem is Paul Schrader’s First Reformed, in which Schrader revealed the last 15 years of being a washed-up hack as an extended wind-up to making his masterpiece. First Reformed encompasses Schrader’s thoughts on global warming, the futility of being one man against the system, suicide bombings, God’s silence, the corporatization of Christianity, the Iraq War, drinking yourself to death, and hip youth pastors, creating a symphony of absolute despair anchored by what is almost certainly Ethan Hawke’s greatest performance (if A24 has got more than shit for brains, they’ll be campaigning him hard next to Toni Collette this season).

The only other new title worth even half a damn is the first season of The Terror, yet another acclaimed TV series I did not watch and have little actual knowledge of. Catalog titles are much better, with Criterion going to two completely opposite poles of filmmaking with Ernst Lubitsch’s Heaven Can Wait and Susan Seidelman’s Smithereens and Kino going full glorious schlock with releases of Color of Night and Deep Rising. And somewhere in-between respectability and schlock is David Lynch’s Wild at Heart, a work of simultaneous grotesquerie and beauty that Shout Factory is finally (after a three-month delay) giving a good, non-Twilight Time Blu-Ray, complete with all the deleted scenes from the Lime Green Box.

Action Point (Paramount)
Color of Night (Kino)
Deadpool 2 (Fox)
Deep Rising (Kino)
First Reformed (Lionsgate)
Gloria (Twilight Time)
Heaven Can Wait (Criterion)
The Hot Rock (Twilight Time)
Show Dogs (Universal)
Smithereens (Criterion)
Strait-Jacket (Shout Factory)
The Terror: The Complete First Season (Lionsgate)
Wild at Heart (Shout Factory)