Bylined reviews with verdicts and scores — most recently published or updated first. Showing 481–504 of 621 movie reviews.
★★★½☆
Sri Asih is Upi Avianto's Indonesian superhero film, reviving a classic comic heroine with Pevita Pearce in the lead, strong fights and some growing pains.
★★★★★
Star Wars (1977) is George Lucas's space-opera fairy tale, a film that reshaped Hollywood and still works as a brisk, joyful adventure nearly fifty years on.
★★★½☆
Steve is Tim Mielants's one-day drama about a reform-school head teacher, with Cillian Murphy superb at the centre of a film that is sometimes as chaotic as its setting.
★★★½☆
Stree 2 sends Rajkummar Rao and friends back to Chanderi to face a headless new menace, a crowd-pleasing Hindi horror-comedy that trades some bite for bigger laughs.
★★★☆☆
Sultan is Ali Abbas Zafar's Hindi wrestling melodrama, built around Salman Khan's comeback heroics, with Anushka Sharma giving the film its sharpest edge.
★★★½☆
Sunshine is Danny Boyle's space thriller about a crew carrying a bomb to reignite the Sun, a visually overwhelming film whose final act divides audiences.
★★★★☆
Superman is James Gunn's bright, big-hearted reboot of the Man of Steel, with David Corenswet as a sincere Clark Kent in a crowded but joyful new DC universe.
★★★★☆
Suspiria is Dario Argento's 1977 horror landmark about an American dancer at a sinister German ballet school, a nightmare built from saturated colour and noise.
★★★★☆
Suzume is Makoto Shinkai's anime road movie about a teenager sealing magical doors across Japan, a gorgeous fantasy that turns disaster memory into adventure.
★★★½☆
Swimming Pool is François Ozon's teasing psychological thriller, with Charlotte Rampling as a crime writer whose French retreat is disrupted by a reckless young guest.
★★★½☆
Syndromes and a Century is Apichatpong Weerasethakul's tender, mysterious film inspired by his doctor parents, a Thai hospital story told twice in two different worlds.
★★★★★
Taare Zameen Par is Aamir Khan's moving Hindi drama about a dyslexic boy failed by school and family, a humane, influential film that remains essential viewing.
★★★★½
Talk to Her is Pedro Almodóvar's Oscar-winning drama about two men caring for women in comas, a tender, daring and deeply unsettling study of love and obsession.
★★★☆☆
Taste is Lê Bảo's radical Vietnamese art film about a Nigerian footballer and four women who retreat into an old house, a striking but demanding sensory experiment.
★★★★½
Terminator 2: Judgment Day is James Cameron's landmark sci-fi action sequel, a relentless chase with groundbreaking effects and a surprising emotional core.
★★★★☆
The 36th Chamber of Shaolin is Lau Kar-leung's kung fu classic, a revenge story that turns the training itself into the thrilling main event.
★★★★½
The Artist is Michel Hazanavicius's black-and-white silent film about a Hollywood star undone by talkies, a crowd-pleaser with real feeling under the pastiche.
★★★½☆
The Battle at Lake Changjin is China's three-hour Korean War epic, a formidable winter combat film whose patriotic framing leaves little room for nuance.
★★★½☆
The Big Boss is Bruce Lee's first Hong Kong leading role, a rough, low-budget revenge thriller set in Thailand that comes alive whenever he finally fights.
★★★½☆
The Boy and the Heron is Hayao Miyazaki's wartime fantasy about a grieving boy, a gorgeous and deeply personal film that is harder to follow than his classics.
★★★★☆
The Breakfast Club is John Hughes's Saturday-detention comedy about five teenagers and their labels, still sharp and funny even where its attitudes have dated.
★★★★½
The Bridge on the River Kwai is David Lean's POW epic about a British colonel's obsession with doing a job well, even for the enemy, and it remains gripping.
★★★★★
The Brutalist is Brady Corbet's 215-minute epic of a Holocaust survivor and architect in postwar America, a monumental film anchored by a towering Adrien Brody.
★★★★☆
The Butterfly's Dream is a Turkish period drama about two young poets with tuberculosis in 1940s Zonguldak, a handsome, heartfelt film that leans on sentiment.
