Bylined reviews with verdicts and scores — most recently published or updated first. Showing 361–384 of 621 movie reviews.
★★★★☆
Look Back is Kiyotaka Oshiyama's hour-long anime about two schoolgirls bound by rivalry and a love of drawing manga, a compact, piercing film about art and loss.
★★★½☆
Lost Embrace is Daniel Burman's wry Buenos Aires comedy-drama about a restless young man, his family's shopping arcade and the father who walked out on him.
★★★½☆
Ma' Rosa is Brillante Mendoza's raw Manila drama about a shopkeeper arrested for dealing and the children scrambling to buy her freedom, anchored by Jaclyn Jose.
★★★★½
Macario is Roberto Gavaldón's Mexican fable about a starving woodcutter who shares a meal with Death on the Day of the Dead, a haunting classic of hunger and fate.
★★★★☆
Mai is Trấn Thành's record-breaking Vietnamese romantic drama about a Ho Chi Minh City masseuse and an unlikely love, a big-hearted melodrama that aims for tears.
★★★½☆
Majority is Seren Yüce's cool, unsettling Istanbul drama about a drifting young man, his domineering father and the prejudice he inherits without noticing.
★★★★☆
Manjummel Boys is Chidambaram's Malayalam survival thriller about friends whose trip to the Guna Caves turns into a rescue, a gripping tribute to loyalty.
★★★★☆
Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore is Shoshannah Stern's documentary portrait of the Deaf actor, told largely in her own signed words and frank about the hard parts.
★★★★☆
Marlina si Pembunuh dalam Empat Babak karya Mouly Surya memindahkan film western ke savana Sumba: kisah balas dendam seorang janda yang tenang dan tajam.
★★★½☆
Master is Lokesh Kanagaraj's Tamil action thriller pitting Vijay's drunken professor against Vijay Sethupathi's gangster, an electric star clash in a baggy film.
★★★★☆
Mat Kilau is Syamsul Yusof's Malaysian silat epic about Malay warriors resisting British rule in 1890s Pahang, a rousing, record-breaking action spectacle.
★★★½☆
Megadoc is Mike Figgis's fly-on-the-wall documentary about Francis Ford Coppola making Megalopolis, a candid look at obsession, money and creative risk.
★★★★½
Memoir of a Snail is Adam Elliot's stop-motion tale of a lonely woman separated from her twin, a bleak, very funny and deeply humane animated film for adults.
★★★★½
Memories of Murder is Bong Joon Ho's 1980s serial-killer procedural, a darkly funny and haunting portrait of detectives, and a country, out of their depth.
★★★½☆
Merantau is Gareth Evans's Indonesian martial-arts drama about a young silat fighter's rite of passage in Jakarta, the rough first draft of The Raid's brilliance.
★★★½☆
Mersal is Atlee's Tamil action thriller in which Vijay's doctor and magician go after a corrupt private-healthcare system, a loud mass entertainer with a message.
★★★★½
Metropolis is Fritz Lang's 1927 silent epic of a future city split between rulers and workers, a visionary landmark whose images still shape science fiction.
★★★★☆
Minari is Lee Isaac Chung's tender, semi-autobiographical drama about a Korean American family farming in rural Arkansas, lifted by a scene-stealing grandmother.
★★★★½
Miracle in Cell No. 7 is Turkey's remake of the Korean tearjerker about a wrongly jailed father and his daughter, and it is shamelessly, effectively moving.
★★★★½
Modern Times is Charlie Chaplin's Depression-era comedy in which the Tramp battles factory machines, hunger and the law, and 90 years on it is still hilarious.
★★★½☆
Molli and Max in the Future is a homemade sci-fi rom-com following two friends across years and galaxies, its charm outrunning a small budget and patchy jokes.
★★★½☆
Monisme is Riar Rizaldi's experimental hybrid of documentary and fiction about life on Mount Merapi, a hypnotic, demanding film that rewards patient viewers.
★★★½☆
Moonlight is Barry Jenkins's Best Picture-winning drama about a young Black man in Miami, told in three chapters: beautifully made, if at times too withholding.
★★★☆☆
Mulan is Niki Caro's live-action remake of Disney's animated classic, reworked as a songless martial-arts epic. It looks spectacular but feels oddly remote.
