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★★★☆☆
Free Fire is Ben Wheatley's 1970s warehouse shootout comedy, a single gunfight stretched to feature length with a sharp cast, great banter and diminishing returns.
It depends. Fans of pitch-black comedy and ensemble banter will have fun, but viewers who need story or stakes may tire of one long gunfight.
★★★★☆
From Ground Zero gathers 22 short films made by Palestinian filmmakers in Gaza during the war, an uneven but vital anthology that moves from dark humour to raw grief.
Yes. It is a difficult, essential document of life under bombardment, best for viewers ready for grief and uneven quality in exchange for voices rarely heard.
★★★★☆
Game of Thrones is HBO's landmark fantasy epic of warring noble houses and dragons, peerless in its early seasons even though a hurried ending divided its audience.
Yes. Its first six seasons are essential television for adult fantasy and political drama fans, but go in knowing the final seasons rush to an ending many found unsatisfying.
★★★★☆
Gangs of London is Sky's ferocious crime saga about a power vacuum in the city's underworld, with world-class action from The Raid's Gareth Evans and a merely solid plot.
Yes, for viewers with strong stomachs. The action is among the best ever put on television, ideal for fans of violent crime sagas, though the plotting is more functional than gripping.
★★★★★
Gangs of Wasseypur is Anurag Kashyap's sprawling Dhanbad gangster epic, a funny, brutal and song-soaked blood feud that remains Hindi cinema's great modern crime saga.
Yes. It is essential crime cinema, not just essential Hindi cinema, for anyone ready for a long, violent and wildly entertaining saga that continues in Part 2.
★★★★☆
Gavin & Stacey is the warm British sitcom about an Essex boy and a Welsh girl whose romance unites two families, and its supporting cast steals every scene.
Yes. It is one of Britain's most lovable modern sitcoms, perfect for anyone who likes gentle, character-driven comedy, though the title couple are its weakest link.
★★★½☆
Ghilli is Dharani's Tamil action-romance in which Vijay's kabaddi player shields a young woman from a village strongman, and it remains a mass-cinema template.
Yes, with reservations. It is a hugely entertaining Tamil mass entertainer and a key Vijay film, best for viewers who can forgive its length and broad comedy.
★★★★☆
Ghosts is the BBC sitcom in which a young couple inherit a crumbling country house full of bickering spirits from across history, silly, warm and cleverly built.
Yes. It is one of the best British sitcoms of recent years, ideal for anyone who enjoys gentle ensemble comedy, as long as you want warmth more than big belly laughs.
★★★★☆
Ginny & Georgia is Netflix's soapy dramedy about a young mother with a dangerous past and her teenage daughter in a New England town, bingeable and surprisingly raw.
Yes, for fans of addictive family drama. Brianne Howey is terrific, and it suits viewers who enjoy soapy twists with teen drama, if you can forgive uneven tone and frustrating choices.
★★★★☆
Girl from Nowhere is a dark Thai anthology in which a mysterious transfer student exposes the cruelty and hypocrisy of elite schools, one grim moral fable at a time.
Yes, for adults with a taste for dark fables. It is sharp, stylish and gripping, though the formula grows repetitive and the violence is often hard to watch.
★★★½☆
Girl with a Pearl Earring imagines the story behind Vermeer's famous painting, a ravishing period drama with Scarlett Johansson that is more beautiful than gripping.
Yes, with reservations. It is a gorgeous, restrained period piece for lovers of art and slow-burn drama, though its emotional temperature stays cool throughout.
★★★★☆
Girls Will Be Girls is Shuchi Talati's perceptive coming-of-age drama at a strict Himalayan boarding school, where a teenager's first romance collides with her mother.
Yes. It is a sharp, tender and unusually honest Indian coming-of-age film, best for viewers who enjoy quiet, observant drama over big emotional fireworks.
★★★★½
Gladiator is Ridley Scott's thunderous Roman revenge epic, with Russell Crowe as a betrayed general turned arena fighter, and it still sets the genre's standard.
Yes. It is a rousing, old-fashioned epic with modern muscle, perfect for anyone who wants grand spectacle and a simple, powerful revenge story told with total conviction.
★★★★★
Goblin is Kim Eun-sook's landmark Korean fantasy romance about a cursed immortal, his destined bride and a lonely grim reaper, funny, lavish and deeply moving.
Yes, absolutely. It is the defining K-drama fantasy romance, essential for anyone who loves sweeping, bittersweet love stories and a good cry between the laughs.
★★★★½
Godzilla Minus One is Takashi Yamazaki's postwar kaiju drama, in which a guilt-ridden former kamikaze pilot faces the monster: perhaps the best Godzilla film since 1954.
Yes. It is a rare monster movie with a real beating heart, thrilling and moving in equal measure, and worth seeing even if you have never cared about kaiju films.
★★★★☆
Gogglebox is Channel 4's long-running reality show in which British households react to the week's TV, and its real subject turns out to be the viewers.
Yes. It is warm, funny and oddly revealing reality TV, best dipped into week by week rather than binged, and ideal for anyone who likes hearing ordinary people talk.
★★★★½
Gomorrah is Matteo Garrone's unflinching Naples crime drama, five interwoven stories that strip every trace of glamour from the Camorra and the lives it controls.
Yes. It is one of the essential crime films of the century, best for patient viewers who want the reality of organised crime rather than gangster-movie thrills.
★★★★☆
Gone Girl is David Fincher's icy, darkly funny thriller about a missing wife and a husband under suspicion, a sharp satire of marriage and media starring Rosamund Pike.
Yes. It is a gripping, wickedly clever adult thriller with Rosamund Pike at her best, as long as you can accept a later stretch that pushes plausibility hard.
★★★★½
Good Bye, Lenin! is Wolfgang Becker's tragicomedy about a son who hides reunification from his mother, and a tender, funny portrait of a country that vanished.
Yes. It is a warm, clever tragicomedy that works as family drama and as history, ideal for viewers who like their laughs with an ache underneath.
★★★½☆
Good One is India Donaldson's quietly piercing debut, in which a Catskills hiking trip shows a 17-year-old how easily the men around her let her down.
Yes, with patience. It is a precise, understated drama that rewards viewers who like small gestures and silence, less so anyone wanting a big confrontation.
★★★★½
GoodFellas is Martin Scorsese's electric true-crime saga of Henry Hill's life in the mob, a film that sells the gangster's thrill and then sends you the bill.
Yes. It is one of the defining crime films of the American cinema, essential for adult viewers who can handle sudden, brutal violence and strong language.
★★★★½
Grave of the Fireflies is Isao Takahata's animated war drama about two orphaned children in 1945 Kobe, and one of the most devastating films ever made.
Yes, once. It is a masterpiece of animated drama and an essential war film, best for teens and adults ready for a profoundly sad, unsentimental story.
★★★½☆
Grisse transplants the Western to the colonial Dutch East Indies, an ambitious eight-episode HBO Asia adventure that looks superb even when its story plays safe.
Mostly yes. Fans of Westerns and period action will enjoy its scale and novelty over eight episodes, as long as they accept familiar storytelling and thin characters.
★★★½☆
Grudge: The Revolt of Gumiho is a 2010 Korean folklore melodrama about a nine-tailed fox raising a human child, anchored by a young Kim Yoo-jung's striking turn.
Mostly yes. Fans of sageuk, Korean folklore and heavy melodrama will find a gripping mother-daughter story, provided they can forgive dated effects and a sagging middle.