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Short review 4 min read English Pain and Glory (2019)

Pain and Glory (2019) Review: Almodóvar Looks Inward

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.

85%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

Pan's Labyrinth (2006) Review: A Fairy Tale for Wartime

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.

90%
Celluloid Celluloid Pick
Short review 4 min read English Pathaan (2023)

Pathaan (2023) Review: Star Power Over Spycraft

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.

54%
Celluloid Not Recommended
Ulasan singkat 3 menit baca Bahasa Indonesia Pengabdi Setan 2: Communion (2022)

Review Pengabdi Setan 2: Communion (2022): Rusun Terkepung

Pengabdi Setan 2: Communion memindahkan teror keluarga Rini ke rumah susun yang penuh tetangga. Sekuel Joko Anwar yang lebih besar, sesak, dan mencekam.

Short review 4 min read English Perfect Days (2023)

Perfect Days (2023) Review: Grace in a Tokyo Routine

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.

88%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Perfect Strangers (2016)

Perfect Strangers (2016) Review: Seven Phones on the Table

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.

69%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Phone Swap (2012)

Phone Swap (2012) Review: A Nollywood Mix-Up That Clicks

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.

68%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Pixote (1980)

Pixote (1980) Review: Childhood Failed by the State

Pixote is Héctor Babenco's harrowing Brazilian drama about São Paulo street children, cast with real kids and shot with an unflinching, neorealist honesty.

82%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English PK (2014)

PK (2014) Review: An Alien's Innocent Questions About God

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.

75%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Police Story (1985)

Police Story (1985) Review: Jackie Chan Breaks Everything

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.

84%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Ponniyin Selvan: Part I (2022)

Ponniyin Selvan: Part I (2022) Review: Chola Court Intrigue

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.

74%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Ponniyin Selvan: Part II (2023)

Ponniyin Selvan: Part II (2023) Review: Heartbreak at Court

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.

74%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Pop Aye (2017)

Pop Aye (2017) Review: A Man, an Elephant, a Long Walk

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.

77%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Porcelain War (2024)

Porcelain War (2024) Review: Art Made Under Fire

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.

83%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) Review: The Art of Looking

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.

90%
Celluloid Celluloid Pick
Short review 4 min read English Premalu (2024)

Premalu (2024) Review: A Hyderabad Crush, Played for Laughs

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.

78%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Princess Mononoke (1997)

Princess Mononoke (1997) Review: A War With No Villains

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.

85%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Problemista (2023)

Problemista (2023) Review: Kafka With a Toy Designer's Eye

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.

73%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Project A (1983)

Project A (1983) Review: Jackie Chan's Pirate-Busting Romp

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.

81%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Psycho (1960)

Psycho (1960) Review: Hitchcock Pulls the Rug Out

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.

83%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Pulp Fiction (1994)

Pulp Fiction (1994) Review: Talk, Time and Sudden Violence

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.

90%
Celluloid Celluloid Pick
Short review 4 min read English Pushpa 2 - The Rule (2024)

Pushpa 2: The Rule (2024) Review: Swagger at Full Volume

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.

70%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Pushpa: The Rise (2021)

Pushpa: The Rise (2021) Review: The Making of a Mass Icon

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.

73%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Queen (2013)

Queen (2013) Review: A Solo Honeymoon Worth Taking

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.

81%
Celluloid Recommended