226 featured critic reviews. Page 18 of 26.
★★★★★
Mohammad Rasoulof's The Seed of the Sacred Fig turns a Tehran judge's missing pistol into a suffocating domestic thriller — an allegory of authoritarian paranoia made under real threat of imprisonment, and smuggled out of Iran.
A blistering, courageous political thriller that turns one household into a microcosm of a regime. Urgent, suspenseful and morally fearless.
★★★★★
Apple TV+'s Severance is not a mystery box to be solved but a philosophical machine, using the sterile geometry of corporate space to stage the oldest question in cinema: who are we when no one is watching?
A landmark of television direction — sterile, sinister, and quietly devastating. Essential viewing.
★★★★★
Jesse Armstrong's Succession weaponises the restless handheld camera and the withheld reaction shot to turn corporate warfare into a King Lear for the age of private jets — the finest ensemble drama of its decade.
A savage, Shakespearean masterpiece. Five stars, and the benchmark every prestige drama is now measured against.
★★★★½
Olivia Wilde's chamber piece confines four extraordinary actors to a single apartment and lets the camera do the accusing — a comedy of manners that curdles, with real formal daring, into something closer to horror.
Wilde's best work by a distance — a razor-sharp, superbly acted single-location chamber piece. Don't miss it.
★★★★☆
Steven Spielberg trades spectacle for institutional dread in a first-contact thriller that watches humanity's certainties dissolve — the master of upward-gazing wonder now more interested in the faces looking back down.
Late-period Spielberg in restrained, paranoid mode — less awe than unease, and all the more haunting for it. Highly recommended.
★★★☆☆
Milly Alcock's fierce Kara Zor-El and Jason Momoa's scene-stealing Lobo lift a DCU entry that critics find uneven but audiences largely embrace.
Worth seeing for Alcock and Momoa — just manage blockbuster expectations.
★★★★★
Francis Ford Coppola's 1972 masterpiece turns a mafia saga into the definitive story of American power, family, and corruption — and more than 50 years on, it has never been surpassed.
An essential, five-star cornerstone of cinema — the American crime epic every other has been measured against since.
★★★★½
Andrew Stanton sends Woody and Buzz up against a screen-obsessed kid and a frog-shaped tablet, and Pixar finds fresh heart in the oldest fear in the franchise.
Celluloid Pick family viewing — the year's biggest animated event.
★★★☆☆
Jon Erwin's French and Indian War origin story finds a charismatic George Washington in William Franklyn-Miller, even when the history turns into musket-firing spectacle.
A patriotic crowd-pleaser that critics find uneven — audiences disagree.