Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalogue titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This twice-monthly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you\u2019re watching.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n PICK OF THE WEEK: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Past Lives<\/em><\/strong><\/a>: <\/strong>Celine Song\u2019s feature debut tells a simple story, of two people who knew each other when they were children, reconnected in college and fell into something like love, and have now met again, when one of them is married. The particular majesty of this very modest film is how it tells a story that\u2019s strikingly specific in its particulars, but it tells that story so insightfully and personally that it becomes universal. Not all of us have been that girl, or that guy, or the other one. But we\u2019ve all loved someone when it was too late, or questioned the choices we\u2019ve made, or wondered what our lives would be like if we\u2019d done this one little thing differently. And it\u2019s that universality \u2014 along with the sensitivity of the performances and offhand ease of the dialogue \u2014 that makes it such an overwhelmingly, devastatingly emotional experience<\/a>. (Includes audio commentary, deleted scenes, and featurette.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n ON BLU-RAY \/ DVD \/ VOD:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Elemental<\/em><\/strong><\/a>: <\/strong>The latest from Disney\/Pixar can feel, in spots, like something of a medley of their greatest hits; Zootopia<\/em> is particularly well-represented, but there are dashes of Inside Out<\/em> and Coco<\/em>, among others. But the character designs are inventive, the dialogue is clever (though some of the puns are pretty dire), and the set pieces are well-executed (especially the big flood at the climax). Most importantly, if the specifics are familiar, there\u2019s an overall movement into new territory, as the central relationship has elements of romantic comedy that feel fresh and unexpected. It\u2019s not one of the great Pixar pictures, but it\u2019ll do. (Also streaming on Disney+<\/em><\/a>.) (Includes audio commentary, deleted scenes, featurettes, and \u201cCarl\u2019s Date\u201d short.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n