Physical media culture is alive and thriving thanks to the home video tastemakers hailing everywhere from The Criterion Collection to Kino Lorber and the Warner Archive Collection. Each month, IndieWire highlights the best recent and upcoming Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K releases for cinephiles to own now — and to bring ballast and permanence to your moviegoing at a time when streaming windows on classic movies close just as soon as they open.

2025 is starting off strong, with an abundance of new releases both popular and obscure. Contemporary auteurs like Robert Zemeckis and Quentin Tarantino are represented with releases both new (“Here”) and from their catalog (“Inglourious Basterds”), while a pair of masters from Hollywood’s past — Anthony Mann and George Stevens — have gorgeous new editions of two of their most idiosyncratic works arriving on physical media.

January also sees Criterion giving Richard Pryor’s “Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is Calling” a long overdue Blu-ray release,...