This week sees the release of two movies with such strong visual pastiches that them also being incredibly emotionally resonant comes as a bonus; Todd Haynes’ Far From Heaven and a bunch of people’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. I’d try to come up with further comparisons, but all I can think of is both of them being fantastic and very much worth buying. Also very much worth buying are Criterion’s two offerings this week, both of which are exactly the kind of underseen or poorly-presented gems that Criterion should ideally be releasing regularly (but hey, Michael Moore movies keep the lights on); Barbara Loden’s only directorial effort Wanda and Edgar G. Ulmer’s public-domain noir Detour.

Cleopatra Jones (Warner Archive Collection)
Detour (Criterion)
Far from Heaven (Kino)
Losin’ It (Kino)
Mary Poppins Returns (Disney)
Ned Kelly (Shout Factory)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Sony)
Strip Nude for Your Killer (Arrow)
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? (Kino)
Wanda (Criterion)
The Witches (Shout Factory)