Bylined reviews with verdicts and scores — newest first. Showing 313–336 of 590 movie reviews.
★★★★½
Jesse Eisenberg's A Real Pain sends two mismatched cousins on a Holocaust heritage tour of Poland, measuring inherited trauma against the smallness of everyday hurt — a slim, aching comedy-drama that hands Kieran Culkin the role of a lifetime.
★★★★☆
Aaron Schimberg's A Different Man gives Sebastian Stan a cure for his facial difference and then hands the life he wanted to another man who never sought it — a slippery, wickedly ironic fable about identity, envy and the lie of transformation.
★★★★½
Adam Elliot's Memoir of a Snail is a painstaking claymation memoir of a lonely, hoarding misfit that finds startling warmth in the bleakest material — melancholy, wickedly funny and voiced with real feeling by Sarah Snook.
★★★☆☆
Jacques Audiard's Emilia Pérez fuses cartel thriller, gender-transition drama and full-blown musical into one operatic gamble — an undeniably singular film whose glib treatment of trans identity and Mexican violence made it the most contested title of its year.
★★★★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.
★★★★½
Sam Mendes's 1917 (2019) endures as a defining war landmark from United Kingdom, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
★★★★½
Hirani's crowd-pleaser balances laughs and social critique with rare emotional precision.
★★★★½
Federico Fellini's 8½ (1963) endures as a defining drama landmark from Italy, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
★★★★½
Osmar Prado's A Dog's Will (2000) endures as a defining comedy landmark from Brazil, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
★★★★½
Jacques Audiard's A Prophet (2009) endures as a defining crime landmark from France, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
★★★★½
Ada Apa dengan Cinta? bukan cuma film remaja — ia film yang menghidupkan kembali bioskop Indonesia setelah bertahun-tahun sepi, dan cara bicaranya soal cinta pertama masih terasa jujur sampai sekarang.
★★★★☆
Ozan Açıktan's Aile Arasında (2017) endures as a defining comedy landmark from Turkey, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
★★★★½
Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira (1988) endures as a defining animation landmark from Japan, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
★★★★½
Pedro Almodóvar's All About My Mother (1999) endures as a defining drama landmark from Spain, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
★★★★½
Edward Berger's All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) endures as a defining war landmark from Germany, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
★★★★☆
Payal Kapadia threads together the quiet loneliness of three Mumbai nurses with a patience that rewards close attention, resulting in a work of remarkable tenderness and visual poise.
★★★★½
Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amélie (2001) endures as a defining romance landmark from France, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
★★★★½
Alejandro González Iñárritu's Amores Perros (2000) endures as a defining drama landmark from Mexico, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
★★★★½
Michael Haneke's Amour (2012) endures as a defining drama landmark from France, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
★★★★½
Justine Triet's Anatomy of a Fall (2023) endures as a defining drama landmark from France, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
★★★★½
Raghavan's darkly comic thriller became a word-of-mouth phenomenon across India and abroad.
★★★★☆
Kunle Afolayan's Anikulapo (2022) endures as a defining fantasy landmark from Nigeria, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
★★★★½
Kleber Mendonça Filho's Aquarius (2016) endures as a defining drama landmark from Brazil, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
★★★★☆
Nia Dinata's Arisan! (2003) endures as a defining comedy landmark from Indonesia, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
