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 Night Moves<\/em><\/strong><\/a>: <\/strong>Director Arthur Penn\u2019s 1975 masterpiece \u2013 a new addition, on 4K no less, to the Criterion Collection \u2013 does for the private-eye movie what his Bonnie and Clyde<\/em> did for the gangster flick, infusing the well-worn genre with a modern sensibility, and providing a peerless showcase for his gifted star. Gene Hackman (also late of Bonnie<\/em>) is wonderfully weary as a P.I. whose seemingly simple missing-teenager case is complicated not only by his deceitful clients and witnesses, but the rapid dissolution of his ostensibly stable marriage. It\u2019s a cracklingly good mystery, but so much more; this is a character study of uncommon sensitivity and precision, dramatized by an actor who was always best when he had something to hide. (Includes audio commentary, new and archival interviews, featurette, trailer, and essay by Mark Harris.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n ON NETFLIX:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n CHAOS: The Manson Murders<\/em><\/strong><\/a>: <\/strong>Eight years after Wormwood, <\/em>Errol Morris returns to the Netflix true-crime documentary world \u2014 a subgenre and adjoining aesthetic he basically invented with The Thin Blue Line<\/em> \u2014 for this exploration of the most notorious boogeyman of our time, as seen through the lens of Tom O\u2019Neill, who turned a thirtieth-anniversary magazine assignment about the Manson murders into a twenty-year deep dive that resulted in the riveting and baffling 2019 book CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties. <\/em>Morris spends perhaps a bit too much on the particulars of the murders \u2014 not that it\u2019s not interesting, but it\u2019s certainly known \u2014 and less than I would\u2019ve liked on both the looming questions of O\u2019Neill\u2019s investigation (and how it consumed that writer and became his own obsession). But it\u2019s a terrific piece of work nonetheless, and a harsh reminder that this groundbreaking documentarian is not getting his due these days<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n