Pain and Glory (2019) Review: Almodóvar Looks Inward
★★★★½
Pain and Glory is Pedro Almodóvar's tender, semi-autobiographical drama about an ailing film director, with Antonio Banderas giving the performance of his life.
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★★★★½
Pain and Glory is Pedro Almodóvar's tender, semi-autobiographical drama about an ailing film director, with Antonio Banderas giving the performance of his life.
★★★★½
Pan's Labyrinth is Guillermo del Toro's dark fantasy about a girl in Franco's Spain who escapes into a world of fauns and monsters, as brutal as it is beautiful.
★★★☆☆
Pathaan is Siddharth Anand's glossy Hindi spy blockbuster that brought Shah Rukh Khan back as an action hero, big on swagger and set pieces, thin on plotting.
★★★★☆
Pengabdi Setan 2: Communion memindahkan teror keluarga Rini ke rumah susun yang penuh tetangga. Sekuel Joko Anwar yang lebih besar, sesak, dan mencekam.
★★★★★
Perfect Days is Wim Wenders's serene Tokyo drama about a public-toilet cleaner's daily rituals, anchored by Kōji Yakusho's Cannes-winning, near-wordless lead turn.
★★★★½
Perfect Strangers is Paolo Genovese's sharp Italian chamber comedy in which friends at a dinner party read every phone message aloud, with painfully funny results.
★★★★☆
Phone Swap is Kunle Afolayan's breezy Nigerian romantic comedy about two strangers whose accidental phone exchange pulls each into the other's life for a weekend.
★★★★½
Pixote is Héctor Babenco's harrowing Brazilian drama about São Paulo street children, cast with real kids and shot with an unflinching, neorealist honesty.
★★★★½
PK is Rajkumar Hirani's Hindi satire in which Aamir Khan's stranded alien pokes at religious hypocrisy, pairing big laughs with a surprisingly bold argument.
★★★★☆
Police Story is Jackie Chan's 1985 Hong Kong cop thriller, a thin story wrapped around some of the most dangerous and thrilling practical stunts ever filmed.
★★★★☆
Ponniyin Selvan: Part I is Mani Ratnam's lavish Tamil adaptation of Kalki's Chola novel, a sprawling tale of court conspiracy that favours intrigue over battle.
★★★★☆
Ponniyin Selvan: Part II completes Mani Ratnam's Tamil Chola epic, trading some of Part One's playful intrigue for doomed romance, grief and a war for the throne.
★★★½☆
Pop Aye is Kirsten Tan's gentle Thai-language road movie about a burnt-out Bangkok architect walking his childhood elephant home, wry and melancholy in equal parts.
★★★★☆
Porcelain War is an Oscar-nominated documentary about Ukrainian artists who stay to defend their home, making delicate porcelain while learning to fight a war.
★★★★½
Portrait of a Lady on Fire is Céline Sciamma's 18th-century French love story between a painter and her reluctant subject, a romance built on precise, intense looking.
★★★★☆
Premalu is Girish A. D.'s breezy Malayalam romantic comedy about a lovestruck graduate chasing a confident IT professional in Hyderabad, with laughs to spare.
★★★★½
Princess Mononoke is Hayao Miyazaki's animated fantasy epic about a cursed prince caught between a forest's gods and an ironworks town, and it refuses easy villains.
★★★★☆
Problemista is Julio Torres's surreal New York comedy about a Salvadoran toy designer racing to save his US visa, with Tilda Swinton as his impossible new employer.
★★★½☆
Project A is Jackie Chan's period action comedy about a coast guard officer fighting pirates in colonial Hong Kong, a loose story built around dazzling stunt work.
★★★★½
Psycho is Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 thriller about a fleeing office worker and a lonely motel keeper, a film that rewired horror and still plays with its audience's nerves.
★★★★★
Pulp Fiction is Quentin Tarantino's Palme d'Or-winning Los Angeles crime film, a shuffled deck of hitmen, boxers and robbers that changed American cinema in the 1990s.
★★★½☆
Pushpa 2: The Rule is Sukumar's Telugu mass-action sequel in which Allu Arjun's smuggler king chases power and respect, bigger and louder but looser than the first film.
★★★½☆
Pushpa: The Rise is Sukumar's Telugu action drama about a labourer's climb through the red sandalwood smuggling trade, carried by Allu Arjun's iconic lead turn.
★★★★½
Queen is Vikas Bahl's Hindi comedy-drama about a jilted Delhi bride who takes her honeymoon alone in Europe, lifted by Kangana Ranaut's funny, disarming lead turn.