The twisted green-teal perversion of color schemes on certain Criterion 4k/Blurays continues apace. What is mentally wrong with the Criterion engineers who’ve been pulling this teal shit since 2018 or thereabouts? Are they on drugs? Have they gone whacko?

DVD Beaver‘s Gary Tooze (recently posted): “The new Criterion 4K/Bluray disc (3.25.25) is uncomfortably green and blue-ish, [and] will court controversy.

“It is also much darker than the previous digital editions. Why the heavy green-ish-blue? With its neo-noir atmosphere of disillusionment and ambiguity, this Criterion disc might have been graded with cooler/darker tones (blue-green) to enhance its moody, melancholic feel, especially in the Florida Keys scenes where water and night settings dominate. I’m not quite sure why. Fans may continue to appreciate the brighter Warner HD presentation [released on 8.15.17].”

Bluray.com’s Svet Atanasov [recently posted]: “The new 4K Criterion makeover of Night Moves is disappointing. While it boasts very healthy and wonderfully detailed visuals, all with terrific density levels, it introduces some pretty dramatic color adjustments that effectively alter the film’s native period appearance.

“I have Warner Archive’s original Blu-ray release, which offers a very solid and accurate presentation of the film, and did not even feel the need to do extensive comparisons with it. In some areas of the new 4K makeover, there are entire ranges of primaries and supporting nuances that are eliminated and replaced by variations of turquoise/cyan, creating pretty striking anomalies. To be clear, these anomalies are of the kind that also appear on the recent 4K makeovers of The Hitcher and Mean Streets, adding harsh neon-esque qualities to skies and interiors that destabilize even some background nuances. On this 4K makeover, they are simply significantly exaggerated, doing a lot more to alter the native color temperature of the visuals. Needless to say, this is very unfortunate.”