Bylined reviews with verdicts and scores — newest first. Showing 289–312 of 590 movie reviews.
★★★★★
A ravishing, devastating prequel — Satoh and Kasumi Arimura turn Kenshin’s assassin years into the franchise’s most emotionally powerful film.
★★★★½
Mackenyu’s Enishi elevates a ferocious, emotionally raw finale — Otomo’s action craft remains the gold standard of Japanese live-action spectacle.
★★★★½
The Legend Ends pays off every vow and every scar — Satoh’s final technique and the ironclad showdown are pure live-action anime catharsis.
★★★★☆
Joko Anwar rebooted Pengabdi Setan into mournful, patient terror — 88% critics, 80% audiences, and Tara Basro anchoring Indonesia's horror renaissance.
★★★½☆
Syafiq Yusof's narcotics thriller dominated Malaysian cinemas in 2024 — 70% critics, 86% audiences, Aaron Aziz anchoring corruption pulp at industrial scale.
★★★½☆
Chen Kaige, Tsui Hark, and Dante Lam's Korean War titan split Western critics but conquered China — 55% critics, 85% audiences, and 5.7 billion CNY of national memory.
★★★★☆
Banjong Pisanthanakun's Korean co-production shaman horror — 82% critics, festival buzz, and found-footage dread that divided audiences in its final act.
★★★★☆
Frant Gwo's prequel-sequel doubles the planetary scale — 80% critics, 85% audiences, and a 173-minute epic that asks whether humanity deserves to survive itself.
★★★★☆
Edwin's wildest ride — a Citra-winning action-romance that plays like a graphic novel come to life, with Ladya Cheryl ma…
★★★☆☆
Anggy Umbara rebooted Indonesia's beloved comedy trio into a record-shattering hit — 65% critics, 82% audiences, nostalgia as national event cinema.
★★★★★
Anurag Kashyap’s coal-dust epic is Hindi cinema’s great modern gangster saga — sprawling, funny, brutal, and endlessly quotable.
★★★★★
Aamir Khan’s directorial debut remains a landmark of Hindi humanist cinema — tender, didactic, and still urgent about how schools fail different minds.
★★★½☆
Atlee and Shah Rukh Khan deliver maximalist vigilante spectacle — uneven as drama, irresistible as star vehicle.
★★★☆☆
A glossy YRF spy carnival that restored Shah Rukh Khan to event-cinema form more than it reinvented the genre.
★★★☆☆
Sébastien Vaniček's Evil Dead Burn is the franchise's most savage gore machine, and critics are split — a Certified Fresh 72% on Rotten Tomatoes against a 55 Metascore — between its ferocious practical craft and its thin, humorless siege narrative.
★★★½☆
David Wain's Sundance-premiered comedy is a Certified Fresh gag parade — 77% on Rotten Tomatoes, 66 on Metacritic — powered by Zoey Deutch and a deep bench of comic ringers, even if the hit-to-miss ratio trails his best work.
★★★★½
Shot entirely on IMAX 70mm film, Christopher Nolan's Homer adaptation is a genuine formal event — now confirmed as a record opening and audience favorite — even if the epic's scale occasionally outpaces its heart.
★★★★★
Sean Baker's Anora begins as a Cinderella lark and detonates into something far sadder — a whirlwind of comedy, class fury and tenderness carried by a fearless, star-making Mikey Madison. The Palme d'Or and Best Picture were no accident.
★★½☆☆
Disney's live-action Moana is a lavish act of transcription: Catherine Lagaʻaia shines and Oscar Faura's camera gives the ocean real weight, but Thomas Kail's shot-for-shot fidelity to a ten-year-old classic leaves the remake with nowhere of its own to sail.
★★★★½
Bilal Lashari's The Legend of Maula Jatt reinvents a Punjabi folk legend as a blood-soaked operatic epic — a watershed for Pakistani cinema, staged with staggering visual ambition and crowned by two titanic performances.
★★★★★
Brady Corbet's The Brutalist is a 215-minute, VistaVision-shot epic of immigration, art and the cruelty buried in American patronage — a monumental swing of a film anchored by a towering Adrien Brody.
★★★★★
Walter Salles's I'm Still Here recounts a Brazilian family's survival under dictatorship through the steady, unbreakable presence of a mother — a restrained true story crowned by a luminous Fernanda Torres and a deserved Oscar for International Feature.
★★★★☆
Coralie Fargeat's The Substance weaponizes prosthetic body horror against Hollywood's cult of youth, letting a fearless Demi Moore wage war on a younger copy of herself — a gleefully grotesque provocation that builds to pure prosthetic delirium.
★★★★★
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.
