Top Gun: Maverick soars in 4K and Pearl mesmerizes Martin Scorsese: November's best Blu-ray and 4K UHD releases

Available November 1This long-awaited sequel to 1986's Top Gun demolished the box office with a global tally of over $1.48 billion (with a “b”), becoming the biggest hit of Tom Cruise’s long career. The thrilling sequel about Maverick (Cruise) leading a team of Top Gun graduates into the danger zone for a risky mission has been available for digital purchase on sites such as Vudu and Amazon Prime for a while, but is now available on Blu-ray and 4K UHD. In addition to a Dolby Vision presentation of the movie, extras include several behind-the-scenes/making-of featurettes as well as the music video for Lady Gaga’s “Hold My Hand.” is also available in a with the original Top Gun.

Available November 1If you’re a fan of Will Ferrell as the titular elf in Jon Favreau’s silly 2003 comedy , you were probably crushed by the subpar transfer the movie got on Blu-ray. If that’s the case, Christmas comes early with this remastered 4K UHD edition of the movie featuring HDR and a DTS-HD master audio 5.1 track. The behind-the-scenes extras, commentaries, and other goodies are ported over from the previous Blu-ray release, but the real selling point of this is the improved picture.

Available November 8In celebration of ’s 80th anniversary, the Oscar-winning film starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman has been given the royal treatment for its 4K UHD debut. Warner Bros. reports that the of Casablanca “was restored and remastered from a 2022 4K 16-bit film scan of the best-surviving nitrate film elements.” The scanned digital images went through an extensive restoration process to clean and repair the visuals. The HDR presentation is accompanied by a newly restored original mono track. Many of the behind-the-scenes extras from the previous Blu-ray release are ported over, too. Here’s looking at you in 4K UHD, kid!

Available November 8 is a cult-classic 1988 sci-fi comedy directed by Julien Temple and starring Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Jim Carrey, Damon Wayans and Julie Brown. Vestron Video and Lionsgate Home Entertainment have teamed up for a of the movie, which is also its Blu-ray debut. Extras include a Brown audio commentary, interviews with the director and cast, deleted scenes, vintage radio and TV promos, a still gallery and more.

Available November 15 is Ti West’s acclaimed prequel to his horror movie X. Whereas the latter was filmed like a gritty 1970s movie, Pearl is shot like a Golden Age Technicolor classic à la Gone With The Wind. Mia Goth reprises her role as the titular character—a young woman with dreams of stardom who is trapped on her family’s isolated farm with her overbearing mother and invalid father. Martin Scorsese called it “mesmerizing” and commented that it is “powered by a pure, undiluted love for cinema.” We wish Lionsgate would have given this horror gem a 4K UHD release, but for now we’ll have to settle for a of this unsettling origin story. Extras include “Time After Time” and “Coming Out of Her Shell: The Creation of Pearl” featurettes.

Available November 15Director George Miller’s is based upon the short story “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye” by A.S. Byatt. Tilda Swinton plays the level-headed Dr. Alithea Binnie who encounters a magical djinn (Idris Elba) who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. Warner Bros. will release the visually arresting movie in both Blu-ray and formats, but no extras seem to be included except for a digital code to redeem on a site such as Vudu.

Available November 15Attention tiki enthusiasts: Paramount Home Media has prepared a debut of , starring Elvis Presley and Angela Lansbury. This edition boasts a new 4K 16-bit restoration of the original film from the 35 mm camera negative with a Dolby Vision HDR presentation. In addition to a new audio commentary by film historian James L. Neibaur, extras include a digital photo scrapbook of high-resolution images from the movie, the original trailer, and collectible packaging with a foldout image of the movie poster.

Available November 15Grindhouse Releasing has rescued the psychological thriller from decades of celluloid oblivion for its long-overdue home video debut on . The cult film starring Sondra Locke, Colleen Camp, and Seymour Cassel went through a 4K restoration from the original negative for this two-disc set filled with extras such as in-depth interviews with Camp and director Peter Traynor, an audio commentary pairing Camp with Eli Roth, plus an enclosed 24-page booklet celebrating the history of this infamous ’70s exploitation film.

Available November 15If you’re a Spidey fan or know one, this new Blu-ray collection of Spider-Man films would make a super holidays gift. The set includes the Tobey Maguire trilogy directed by Sam Raimi (, , ), the two movies starring Andrew Garfield (, ), and the more recent movies starring Tom Holland (, , ). It’s not a spoiler at this point to emphasize that Spider-Man: No Way Home features Maguire, Garfield, and Holland together on-screen for the first time. Hey, Sony, how about a 4K edition of this exact same collection? It’s on our wish list for next year.

Available November 15Quentin Tarantino’s feature-length debut, , is a heist film starring Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Chris Penn, Steve Buscemi, Lawrence Tierney, and Michael Madsen. In celebration of the film’s 30th anniversary, Lionsgate is releasing Reservoir Dogs on for the first time. The new 4K restoration of the Tarantino classic features Dolby Vision HDR. The deleted scenes and two featurettes from the previous Blu-ray release are ported over here, too.

Available November 22Spike Lee’s starring Denzel Washington as the controversial civil rights leader is also celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. Criterion Collection has seized the opportunity to release the Oscar-nominated biographical film on for the first time. The new 4K restoration of the film was supervised by cinematographer Ernest Dickerson and features a Dolby Vision HDR presentation. Extras include a new conversation between Lee and screenwriter-journalist Barry Michael Cooper, new interviews with actor Delroy Lindo and composer Terence Blanchard, a behind-the-scenes featurette, deleted scenes, and a feature-length 1972 documentary about Malcolm X narrated by James Earl Jones.