Get Out and Logan are two of the best reviewed films of the year so far, and with good reason.

I was initially skeptical of Jordan Peele’s Get Out as the trailer seemed to indicate another in the almost weekly releases of generic horror films cluttering the market. The directing debut of the second named half of the charismatic comedy team of Key and Peele, instead, delivers a welcome surprise.

Get Out ‘s Rotten Tomatoes score of 99% seems to indicate that it might be one of the greatest films of all time, but that’s putting too much pressure on what is essentially a light entertainment. What drives the high score is the unexpected pleasure of finding a horror film that doesn’t take itself too seriously, while at the same time getting everything right, and not leaving the audience with the feeling that they’ve just wasted 104 minutes of their time that will never get back.

The plot of Get Out is a novel one. Young black men are disappearing and our protagonist (Daniel Kaluuya) is on track to be the next victim, but why? What is there about his seemingly perfect white girlfriend (Allison Williams), her welcoming parents (Catherine Keener, Bradley Whitford), and slightly off-center brother (Caleb Landry Jones) that screams “run?”

The film opens with a scene that features one character and then forgets about him as it turns to the main story, signaling the audience that this could be a Scream rip-off. Far from it. If anything, the winking narrative goes back to the comedy-horror glory days of the likes of James Whale’s The Old Dark House and Charles Barton’s Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, films that were produced by Universal, the studio responsible for releasing Get Out.

I won’t spoil the ending for anyone who hasn’t seen the film, but it has one of the most satisfying conclusions of any horror film in a long, long time.

Get Out is available on both Blu-ray and standard DVD.

Logan, with a Rotten Tomatoes score of 94%, brings Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine character from the X-Men franchise to a moving conclusion.

I am generally not enamored of films set in bleak dystopian landscapes, most of which end in deep despair. What is the point of going through all that angst, only to end up with nothing? Logan, like the film it most reminds me of, Alfonso Cuaron’s 2006 film of P.D. James’ Children of Men, ends on a note of hope. The protagonist may be dead, but he didn’t die in vain. The children, whose lives he saved, are the future.

Jackman first played Marvel’s reluctant superhero in 2000, becoming the central character in 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine and 2013’s The Wolverine, the latter directed by James Mangold, who also helmed Logan. Practically unknown in the U.S. before Bryan Singer’s 2000 original, Jackman has since become a welcome presence in such varied films as Kate & Leopold, Scoop, The Prestige, Les Misérables, and Prisoners. His performance in Logan is perhaps his best of all, even topping his Oscar-nominated work in Les Misérables.

Veteran actor Patrick Stewart, who has played Logan’s mentor, Charles, since the first X-Men, also turns in a performance of considerable power as he, too, faces his end. Now a nonagenarian suffering from dementia, his character has enough lucid moments to remain relevant to the end. Stephen Merchant also turns in a poignant performance as the mutant Caliban, a character previously played by another actor, as he also comes to the end of his existence.

Logan is available on both Blu-ray and standard DVD.

Set in the not-too-distant future, Peter Chelsom’s The Space Between Us is the director’s best film since his 1991 debut Hear My Song. Although classified as science fiction, it is more of a fantasy film than anything reasonably scientific.

One of the best young actors around, Asa Butterfield has been delivering finely etched performances since 2008’s The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Equally brilliant in Nanny McPhee Returns, Hugo, Ender’s Game, and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, he delivers another amazing performance as a 16-year-old-boy, born on Mars, who comes to Earth in search of his father. The strong supporting cast includes Gary Oldman, Carla Gugino, Britt Robertson, BD Wong, and Janet Montgomery as his astronaut mother who dies in childbirth. Director Chelson is the voice of Butterfield’s robot.

The Space Between Us is available on both Blu-ray and standard DVD.

The first 3D film was shown in 1922, but the process did not take hold. It wasn’t until thirty years later that 3D films became profitable for the Hollywood studios which had brief success with them between 1952 and 1954. Most of the films made in the format at that time were not of the caliber of House of Wax, Kiss Me Kate, and Dial M for Murder, all of which have been previously released on Blu-ray. More typical was something like Those Redheads from Seattle, a fairly routine musical about a no-nonsense redheaded mother (Agnes Moorehead) who comes to the Klondike to join her newspaperman husband, unaware that he’s been murdered. She’s accompanied by her four red-headed daughters (Rhonda Fleming, Teresa Brewer, and Cynthia and Kay Bell) who take over the newspaper, sing in the local saloon, and attempt to solve their father’s murder. Gene Barry, Guy Mitchell, and Jean Parker co-star.

Kino Lorber’s Blu-ray of Those Redheads from Seattle offers a playback choice between 2D and 3D, while the standard DVD is 2D only.

This week’s new releases include the Blu-ray debuts of One, Two, Three and Ghost World.