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The Navigator Blu-ray Review

Score: 57

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The Navigator Blu-ray offers a must-own experience with striking high definition, a great score, and enjoyable supplements, maintaining Keaton's comic genius.

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Video: 54

The 1080p/AVC-encoded transfer of "The Navigator," mastered from a 35mm negative, offers surprisingly great image quality with appreciable film grain, deep blacks, and natural tinting, despite noticeable scratches and wear consistent with its age. The clarity significantly surpasses previous DVD editions, maintaining a pure, historical presentation.

Audio: 69

The new score by Robert Israel enhances 'The Navigator' with maritime motifs and ragtime-y syncopation, offered in both a DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 surround sound version and an uncompressed PCM stereo track. Both options deliver clarity, presence, and fidelity, making the audio a great complement to the film.

Extra: 31

The Blu-Ray extras for 'The Navigator' deliver an insightful and richly detailed experience, highlighted by a compelling commentary from historians Robert Arkus and Yair Solan, an engaging featurette from Bruce Lawton on Keaton's comedic use of boats, and evocative archival footage paired with a Wilfred Glenn song.

Movie: 76

"The Navigator" is a delightful and witty fish-out-of-water comedy featuring Buster Keaton's masterful slapstick, ingenious stunts, and memorable gags, presented on Blu-ray by Kino Lorber with excellent visual and audio quality, and anchored by Keaton's endearing deadpan performance and playful chemistry with Kathryn McGuire.

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