This week provides a surprising amount of potential titles for last-minute Christmas shopping. The biggie among them is Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk, finally available in a format Nolan doesn’t want you to watch it in. But kidding aside, Dunkirk remains an incredible experience no matter how you watch it, between Hoyte van Hoytema’s astonishing 70mm cinematography and the most bravura editing and staging of Nolan’s career. And alongside it are 4K releases of it and all of Nolan’s films from Batman Begins on (sadly, the 4K remasters aren’t also being made available on regular Blu-Ray, so you’re stuck with the shitty current transfer of The Dark Knight unless you’ve got the 4K set-up). But if you want to really roll the dice with whoever you’re shopping for, pick up Darren Aronofsky’s mother!, as brazen an act of burning studio money as anything since the end of New Hollywood. It’s at least three different allegories at the same time and perhaps the bleakest farce ever concocted (especially when it starts turning into an especially grim parody of Children of Men). But it’s all held together by Aronofsky’s bravura direction and some wonderful turns by his actors, especially the front-and-center Jennifer Lawrence and a wonderfully bitchy Michelle Pfeiffer.

There’s more where that came from. You can do the most stressful double-feature ever with mother! and the new 4K restoration of Suspiria, finally available on Blu-Ray from Synapse. Or you can do the least appropriate double-feature ever with The LEGO Ninjago Movie and David Gordon Green’s Boston Marathon movie Stronger (which was apparently good even though no one saw it). Or you can do the most genteel, elderly double-feature ever with Stephen Frears’ Victoria & Abdul and Lindsay Anderson’s The Whales of August. Or you can just decide to give your money to *shudder* Twilight Time, who’s out this week with Woody Allen’s Alice (which, as I keep saying, you’d be much better off buying from Arrow’s big UK Woody Allen set) and Arthur Hiller and Paddy Chayevsky’s The Hospital.

4 Days in France (Cinema Guild)
Alice (Twilight Time)
American Gothic (Shout Factory)
The Amicus Collection (Severin)
Christopher Nolan Collection 4K (Warner)
Dunkirk (Warner)
The Hospital (Twilight Time)
The Kentuckian (Kino)
Leatherface (Lionsgate)
The LEGO Ninjago Movie (Warner)
mother! (Paramount)
Stronger (Lionsgate)
Suspiria (Synapse)
Victoria & Abdul (Universal)
The Whales of August (Kino)
Wuthering Heights (Twilight Time)