Bylined reviews with verdicts and scores — most recently published or updated first. Showing 433–456 of 621 movie reviews.
★★★½☆
Raging Fire pits Donnie Yen's upright cop against Nicholas Tse's vengeful former protégé in Benny Chan's final film, a Hong Kong action thriller built on set pieces.
★★★★½
Raise the Red Lantern is Zhang Yimou's severe, ravishing drama of a young concubine in a 1920s household, with Gong Li at her best as a woman learning its rules.
★★★★½
Ran is Akira Kurosawa's King Lear transplanted to feudal Japan, a vast, colour-drenched tragedy of a warlord and his sons that ranks among the great war films.
★★★★½
Rashomon is Akira Kurosawa's compact drama of a forest crime told by witnesses who cannot agree, the 88-minute film that made the world look at Japanese cinema.
★★★½☆
Recep Ivedik unleashes Şahan Gökbakar's boorish, beloved creation on a trip to Antalya, a crude Turkish comedy that became a pop-culture phenomenon.
★★★★☆
Red Cliff is John Woo's lavish retelling of the Three Kingdoms battle, with Tony Leung and Takeshi Kaneshiro as allies facing Cao Cao's vast army and fleet.
★★★☆☆
Red Eye traps Rachel McAdams beside a menacing Cillian Murphy on an overnight flight, and Wes Craven's 85-minute thriller is tense until it touches down.
★★★★☆
Robot Dreams is Pablo Berger's dialogue-free animated film about a lonely dog and the robot he builds in 1980s New York, a small story with a big emotional reach.
★★★½☆
Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani is Karan Johar's lavish Hindi family romance, pairing Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt as lovers from clashing Delhi households.
★★★★☆
Roh is Emir Ezwan's spare Malaysian folk horror about a jungle family and a mysterious child, a slow-burning film of whispered omens and mounting dread.
★★★★½
Roma is Alfonso Cuarón's black-and-white portrait of a domestic worker in 1970s Mexico City, an intimate family drama staged with extraordinary visual scale.
★★★★½
RRR is S. S. Rajamouli's colossal Telugu action epic about two revolutionaries in 1920s British India, a film of wild set pieces and even wilder friendship.
★★★★½
Run Lola Run is Tom Tykwer's 80-minute Berlin sprint, a German thriller in which Franka Potente races the clock again and again to save her boyfriend.
★★★★½
Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno sends Takeru Satoh's wandering swordsman to stop Tatsuya Fujiwara's Shishio, a bigger, darker Japanese action sequel.
★★★★½
Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins turns Nobuhiro Watsuki's manga into a fast, heartfelt Meiji-era action film, with Takeru Satoh as an assassin who has sworn off killing.
★★★★★
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning is the saga's sombre prequel, following Takeru Satoh's young assassin and Kasumi Arimura's grieving Tomoe through Bakumatsu Kyoto.
★★★★½
Rurouni Kenshin: The Final pits Takeru Satoh's Kenshin against Mackenyu's vengeful Enishi, a ferocious, emotionally charged late chapter of the Japanese action saga.
★★★★½
Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend Ends completes the Kyoto story as Takeru Satoh's Kenshin trains with his old master and faces Shishio in a thunderous finale.
★★★☆☆
Saiyaara is Mohit Suri's music-driven Hindi romance introducing Ahaan Panday and Aneet Padda as young artists, sincere and tuneful but built from a familiar template.
★★★☆☆
Sakra stars and is co-directed by Donnie Yen as Qiao Feng, the exiled hero of Jin Yong's wuxia saga, in a film with fierce fights and a badly compressed story.
★★★½☆
Salaar: Part 1 - Ceasefire is Prashanth Neel's brutal Telugu power-struggle epic starring Prabhas, strongest in its action and weakest in its crowded politics.
★★★★☆
Santosh is Sandhya Suri's gripping Hindi police drama about a widow who inherits her husband's constable job, anchored by Shahana Goswami's slow-burning lead.
★★★★½
Saving Private Ryan is Steven Spielberg's Second World War epic, a harrowing rescue-mission drama whose Omaha Beach landing changed how cinema shows combat.
★★★½☆
Scala is Ananta Thitanat's short Thai documentary about the final days of Bangkok's beloved Scala cinema, a tender elegy told through the staff who return to close it.
