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 Sorcerer<\/em><\/strong><\/a>: <\/strong>When William Friedkin\u2019s remake of The Wages of Fear<\/em> was originally released back in 1977, it was a highly-anticipated, big-budget effort from the Oscar-winning director of The Exorcist<\/em> and The French Connection<\/em>. Unfortunately, its arrival in the moviegoing marketplace was preceded, by about a month, by a little movie called Star Wars<\/em>, and that picture pretty much lay waste to everything in its path. The very public failure of this risky picture put Friedkin in Director Jail for quite a few years, but in the years since, it\u2019s been reappraised as the haunted and haunting masterwork that it is \u2014 preserving, if not amping up, the socio-political commentary and impeccable bad vibes of the original. With its grim worldview and bummer ending, it was a quintessential \u201870s movie that merely had the misfortune of hitting theaters right<\/em> when that went out of style. (Includes new and archival interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, trailer, Friedkin Uncut<\/em> documentary, and essay by Justin Chang.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n