The 11 best Blu-rays and 4K UHD releases of July 2023

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Summer is here, and you deserve a break from the heat. Why not crack open a couple of Blu-ray discs and your iced beverage of choice, flop onto the sofa, and enjoy a long weekend with the AC on blast?

July is packed with great releases, including two Scorsese reappraisals, a lost sweaty action masterpiece, a couple of old Hollywood classics, one new Resident Evil set on Alcatraz, and plenty more.

If you’re new to this series, here’s how our Blu-ray and 4K curation works: Each month, to help you find your next favorite discs, we curate a list of our most anticipated releases. We haven’t had the opportunity to try these discs just yet, but each of these releases has potential and comes from a label we’ve enjoyed in the past.

If you want the formal thumbs up, we regularly update a rolling list of the best Blu-rays and 4K UHD discs of the year.

Hugo (4K UHD + Blu-ray + Digital) – July 18

It’s hard to say with confidence why this adaptation of the popular children’s novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret flopped in theaters. It seemed to have everything going for it, from its iconic director (Martin Scorsese) to its cast of popular contemporary stars (Sacha Baron Cohen, Jude Law) and up-and-coming child actors (Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz). Critics were broadly charmed, culminating with 11 Academy Award nominations — more than any other movie that year.

But the film’s marketing pushed its 3D visuals, and in 2011 3D had a tarnished reputation thanks to an onslaught of post-production 3D that caused headaches at best and nausea at worst. And perhaps the visuals looked too adult for kids, but too childish for adults.

Whatever the case, Hugo is long overdue for a reconsideration. This is, beneath all the childhood