Stardust 4K UHD (2007)

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Site review is up (with a very solid 4.0 score) and seems to contradict the other review I've seen, noting that "Grain is very light; even scrutinizing the picture up close the grain field is very, very fine, but the UHD gives no indication of significant image scrubbing or unnecessary degradation. Likewise, compression artifacts are essentially nonexistent and I noted no obvious print anomalies, either."

But the AVSForum review (which gives it a 6 score - the equivalent of a 3.0 here) says "Both fine detailing and the film grain texture veer wildly from one scene to the next – one minute we’re looking at beautifully detailed costumes, intricate set designs and fine grain that shimmers exactly like it should, an inherent part of the image that resolves itself in a natural and even way…and the next, we’re watching an almost soft-filtered reproduction, complete with absence of almost any real detail and backed up with either blocky, chunky grain blobs (check out the scene at 61 mins when Mark Strong is interrogating Bernard the Goat, look at the sky over his shoulder…horrendous blocking)...A quick check of the playback information also shows that in the scenes where detail drops to its lowest, so too does the encode."

I don't see how it can have such obvious problems from one review and the other reviewer doesn't see such major issues.