Welcome to the rare week when the new titles outshine the catalog titles by a significant degree. Other than Criterion’s upgrade of Michael Richie’s Downhill Racer and Masters of Cinema releasing Shane in multiple aspect ratios (the preferred 1.37:1 presentation, the theatrical 1.66:1 presentation, and a new 1.66:1 presentation created for that ratio by the director’s son), the older selection is thin, and what we have is a choice selection of new films. There’s two A24 joints, the critically-acclaimed documentary Amy and the gambling movie Mississippi Grind (starring the ever-reliable Ben Mendelsohn), plus the creepy Goodnight Mommy and two brilliantly nuts Japanese action movies, Sion Sono’s Tokyo Tribe and Takashi Miike’s Yakuza Apocalypse. But, for me, the biggie is Noah Baumbach’s Mistress America, Baumbach’s most delightfully funny film to date, the second-best film of the year thus far, and basically a stealth remake of Broadway Danny Rose where Greta Gerwig is Mia Farrow.

90 Minutes in Heaven (Universal)
Amy (Lionsgate)
Assassination (Well Go USA)
Black Sails: Season 1 & 2 (Anchor Bay)
Cooties (Lionsgate)
Fear the Walking Dead: The Complete First Season (Anchor Bay)
Fort Massacre (Kino Lorber)
Goodnight Mommy (Anchor Bay)
The Gunfight at Dodge City (Kino Lorber)
Love at Large (Kino Lorber)
Mississippi Grind (Lionsgate)
Mistress America (Fox)
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (Warner Bros.)
The Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (Warner Bros.)
Queen of Blood (Kino Lorber)
Shane (Masters of Cinema, UK-only, Region B)
Tokyo Tribe (XLrator)
Twice-Told Tales (Kino Lorber)
Welcome to L.A. (Kino Lorber)
Yakuza Apocalypse (Entertainment One)