Each month The A.V. Club does our part to keep you up to date on the best of what’s coming out on Blu-ray and 4K UHD, which is especially important as streaming services become less and less reliable homes for films worth watching. The usual suspects are all back after a little holiday hibernation, with Arrow, Shout!, and Criterion turning out in full force. A few studios round things out as classics and cult favorites get a little shot in the arm. February 2026’s Blu-ray and 4K releases include funeral dirges to democracy and journalism, modernist comedy freakouts, and Gena Rowlands. Read on and find films from Jacques Tati, John Cassavetes, Sidney Lumet, and more.
PlayTime 4K
Available February 10, 2026
Jacques Tati spent his way into ruin in order to bring his masterwork PlayTime to fruition, but the modernist comic-nightmare he constructed is worth every penny. As Monsieur Hulot navigates the everyday indignities and oddities of urban life, he—in a bit of loving optimism—keeps bumping into people amid the stark architecture and rampant technology. With an essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum (whose favorite film is PlayTime), the 4K release from Criterion includes multiple commentaries, short films, interviews, documentaries, visual essays, and more.
A Woman Under The Influence
Available February 10, 2026
The late Gena Rowlands was never better than in A Woman Under The Influence, one of 10 collaborations with her husband, director John Cassavetes. A whirlwind of interior complexity filtered through gestures and expressions, Rowlands’ work makes the domestic drama into a crash-out of epic proportions. While the film had formerly been available from Criterion in a five-film Cassavetes box set, the indie trailblazer’s opus will soon stand alone without the need to invest a full $125.
All The President’s Men 4K SteelBook
Available February 17, 2026
As you watch the new upgrade of All The President’s Men, pour one out for Robert Redford, journalism, the American presidency, and solid ’70s political thrillers. The essential Watergate film comes with a few new featurettes and a couple rehashes of older special features, but the real prize is the film itself—get ready to see one of the best phone calls ever filmed in glorious 4K.
Nightcrawler 4K
Available February 17, 2026
Here’s the other side of journalism in film, now also in 4K thanks to Scream Factory. One of Jake Gyllenhaal’s finest performances sustains this slimeball thriller set in the world of L.A. news stringers, as the gaunt little striver chases ambulances (and eventually does a little more) in hopes of selling gorier and gorier footage. A few audio commentaries—including one featuring three Gilroy brothers (Michael Clayton/Andor‘s Tony, writer-director Dan Gilroy, and editor John)—bolster a few featurettes.
Westworld 4K
Available February 24, 2026
Before there was Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s increasingly incomprehensible HBO series, there was Michael Crichton’s 1973 directorial debut about a malfunctioning android amusement park (between this and Jurassic Park, it does seem like Crichton thought that Six Flags would be humanity’s downfall). Arrow has shined this sucker up in 4K and stuffed it with goodies. A new commentary track, three new interviews, tons of new writing, the pilot of the follow-up TV show, and more supplement the sharpest look audiences have gotten at the sharp sci-fi.
Excalibur 4K
Available February 24, 2026
John Boorman’s 1981 retelling of the King Arthur legends explores earthy passions with mythic splendor. Fantasy was in fashion in the early ’80s—Conan The Barbarian and The Beastmaster both hit screens a year later—but none of the era’s other swords-and-sorcery contenders approach the stateliness and artistry of Boorman’s stunning epic, which adapts the Medieval stories with a modern sensibility filtered throughJungian psychology. And if its solemnity somehow bores you, it’s at least always amazing to look at. Just as Arthur was born to be king, Excalibur was born to be a fancy 4K limited edition, and Arrow’s new box lets the movie finally realize its destiny. The three-disc set includes a 4K restoration of the R-rated theatrical cut, as well as a Blu-ray with the first home video release of the PG-rated version commonly seen on basic cable throughout the ’80s—so whether they saw it on HBO or TBS, old-timers will be able to embrace their own specific nostalgia. [Garrett Martin]
Network 4K
Available February 24, 2026
We’re all mad as hell, and this new 4K of Network is the only thing keeping some from going postal. Sidney Lumet wrangled Paddy Chayefsky’s blistering script into a killer satire, reckoning with the attractiveness of rage, the corruption of the news, and the ever-tightening tentacles of cash around all facets of American life. This restoration from Criterion features a six-part making-of documentary, a feature-length doc on Chayefsky, and an essay by New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie, whose work on the podcast Unclear And Present Danger offers savvy insight into political films of all stripes.
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