High-Def Watch

Sound off with your picks! THE LIST, in alphabetical order, features the very best in 4K viewing from a physical disc. The criteria required the source to be mastered in 4K or higher and nothing less. No upconversion from 2K to 4K on this list. Continuing from last year, most of the top 4K discs were originally captured on 35mm film stock. When we post the final list, over 100 HDR screenshots will be included with mini-reviews of the Top 10 picks.

4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR SCREENSHOTS In what director Tim Burton, who made his feature debut with “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure,” calls the sports sequence, our hero leaves a posse of racers in his dust. (Click an image to scroll the larger versions) 4K screenshots courtesy of The Criterion Collection/Warner Bros. - Click the jacket for an Amazon purchase “PEE-WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE: THE CRITERION COLLECTION”
   4K Ultra HD & Blu-ray, 1985, PG for rude humor   

Best extra:  The 2005

4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR SCREENSHOTS Robin Williams plays the soft-spoken and eccentric Dr. Malcolm Sayer, who discovered that using an experimental drug could possibly awaken Leonard Lowe, played by Robert De Niro. In the 1920s, Leonard and five million others worldwide had been afflicted by what was labeled “sleeping sickness,” encephalitis lethargica. (Click an image to scroll the larger versions) 4K screenshots courtesy of Sony Pictures via Filmmakers Mode - Click the ja

4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / SDR SCREENSHOTS Center, Emma Thompson in her Academy Award performance as Margaret Schlegel, left, Helena Bonham Carter plays her sister Helen, and Anthony Hopkins as Mr. Henry Wilcox, a prominent London banker. (2) Howards End, the English countryside home of Mrs. Ruth Wilcox. (Click an image to scroll the larger versions) 4K screenshots courtesy of Cohen Film Collection - Click the jacket for an Amazon purchase “HOWARDS END” 4K Ultra HD & Blu-ray; 1992;

4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR SCREENSHOTS Austin Butler stars as Hank Thompson, an East Village bartender who’s on the run with his neighbor’s cat Bud, from Russian gangsters, partnered with a gun-crazed Puerto Rican and a tough NYPD detective. (Click an image to scroll the larger versions) 4K screenshots courtesy of Sony Pictures - Click the jacket for an Amazon purchase “CAUGHT STEALING” 4K Ultra HD & Blu-ray; 2025; R for strong violent content, pervasive profanity, some sexual

4K ULTRA HD REVIEW /HDR SCREENSHOTS English actress Emilia Jones plays teenager Ruby Rossi, and she and her family log in to the Berklee College of Music website to see if she’s been accepted to the preeminent college for music. Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family, and tells her family in the American Sign Language (ASL) symbol, “ I love you. ”   (Click an image to scroll the larger versions) 4K screenshots courtesy of Apple Films via the Filmmakers Mode - Cl

4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR SCREENSHOTS Korean actor Song Kang-ho, known for his role in the Academy Award Best Picture “Parasite,” plays ‘The Weird,’ Yoon Tae-goo, a resourceful bandit who gets his hands on a treasure map. (2) Lee Byung-hun plays ‘The Bad,’ Park Chang-yi, who was hired to steal the map first. Now he and his gang are chasing Tae-goo across the desert wilds of Manchuria to retrieve it.   (Click an image to scroll the larger versions)   4K screenshots courtesy of

4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR SCREENSHOTS Bombs away! Veteran pilot Vern Demerest (Dean Martin) tries to talk down-on-his-luck passenger D.O. Guerrero (Van Heflin) into handing over his briefcase. Why? Its packed with dynamite. (Click an image to scroll the larger versions)   4K screenshots courtesy of KL Studio Classics/Universal Pictures - Click the jacket for an Amazon purchase “AIRPORT”   4K Ultra HD & Blu-ray, 1970, rated G   Best extra: The commentary by authors Julie Kirgo

4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR SCREENSHOTS Jim Carrey stars as the anti-social and bad-tempered The Grinch, who lives in a cave on Mount Crumpit, overlooking the town of Whoville. He visits the town during a Christmas celebration. (Click an image to scroll the larger versions) 4K screenshots courtesy of Universal Pictures - Click for an Amazon purchase “HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS: 25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION” 4K Ultra HD & Blu-ray; 2000; PG for crude humor; Digital copy via Amazon

4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR SCREENSHOTS Jim Carrey became a Hollywood superstar in 1994 through his roles in “The Mask,” “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective,” and “Dumb and Dumber.” Here, he plays nerdy bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss, who finds a mysterious wooden mask that changes his life! (Click an image to scroll the larger versions) 4K screenshots courtesy of Arrow Video and New Line Cinema - Click for an Amazon purchase “THE MASK” 4K Ultra HD; 1994; PG-13 for stylized violence Best ext

4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / SDR SCREENSHOTS Her face horribly disfigured in a car accident caused by her father, Christiane (Edith Scob) must wear a mask as he tries to perfect a transplant.

 (Click an image to scroll the larger versions) 4K screenshots courtesy of The Criterion Collection via Filmmaker Mode - Click for Amazon purchase “EYES WITHOUT A FACE: THE CRITERION COLLECTION”
   4K Ultra HD & Blu-ray, 1960, unrated, graphic surgery, violence

   Best extra:  “The Unreal Real

4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR SCREENSHOTS 2:17 A.M., and 17 third-graders from the same Maybrook Elementary classroom mysteriously run from their homes. (2) Amy Madigan plays the creepy Aunt Gladys, as 3rd-grade teacher Justine (Julia Garner) is attacked by her ex, Paul Morgan (Alden Ehrenreich), who’s under a witchcraft spell. (Click an image to scroll the larger versions) 4K screenshots courtesy of Warner Bros Discovery Entertainment via Filmmaker Mode - Click for an Amazon pur