Bylined reviews with verdicts and scores — newest first. Showing 505–528 of 590 movie reviews.
★★★★☆
Shoshannah Stern's insider portrait lets Marlee Matlin speak for herself, avoiding hagiography while honoring a groundbreaking career.
★★★½☆
Mike Figgis turns Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis gamble into a riveting study of creative hubris and self-financed ambition.
★★★★☆
The Minions crash a monster-movie lot in the year's most affectionate animated comedy — funny, fast, and surprisingly sincere about classic Hollywood craft.
★★★½☆
Michael Lukk Litwak's lo-fi cosmic rom-com proves charm beats budget, though its 175-minute sprawl tests even patient viewers.
★★★★½
Lee Byung-hun gleefully unravels as a laid-off company man in Park Chan-wook's pitch-black comedy — unemployment anxiety turned into a musical nightmare.
★★★★★
Pasolini resists melodrama, trusting Norton's tender performance to carry a dying father's impossible search for his son's future family.
★★★★★
Nyoni folds dark family secrets into wry, surreal Zambian funeral satire—confirming her gift for finding pointed comedy inside grief.
★★★★☆
Pablo Berger's silent animated gem about a dog and his robot companion says more about friendship and loss than most films manage with dialogue.
★★★★☆
Jeremy Workman turns an absurd Rhode Island squat into a sharp, affectionate critique of consumerist sprawl and DIY ingenuity.
★★★★☆
Greg Kwedar's prison theater drama pairs Colman Domingo's career-defining turn with formerly incarcerated actors playing versions of themselves.
★★★★★
Lojkine follows a delivery cyclist's frantic asylum deadline with urgent handheld immediacy, turning bureaucratic dread into pure cinematic tension.
★★★½☆
François Ozon's 1930s murder farce pairs gorgeous production design with Isabelle Huppert in scene-stealing form — frothy, fun, and slightly slight.
★★★★½
Cédric Kahn confines nearly all the drama to one Paris courtroom, and Arieh Worthalter's combustible Pierre Goldman never lets the grip loosen.
★★★★½
Geeta Gandbhir assembles bodycam and interrogation footage into a slow-burning indictment of Florida's stand your ground culture without ever raising its voice.
★★★★★
Charlie Polinger transforms a 2003 swim camp into a nightmare of cruelty and shame — Joel Edgerton anchors a debut that critics call near-perfect.
★★★★½
Nikolaj Arcel mounts a frontier saga on the Danish heath with Mads Mikkelsen at its center — weathered, quiet, and impossible to look away from.
★★★★½
Christopher Sanders' adaptation of Peter Brown's novel pairs lush animation with Lupita Nyong'o's voice work in a survival story that earns every tear.
★★★★☆
Josh Margolin's scam-fueled action-comedy gives June Squibb a rare starring turn — and she plays every stunt for real emotional stakes.
★★★★☆
Mahdi Fleifel follows two cousins scrambling for fake passports in Athens — Mahmoud Bakri and Aram Sabbagh make every reckless choice feel dangerously plausible.
★★★★½
Minh Quý Trương's nearly three-hour debut turns a Vietnamese coal-mine romance into a hazy, achingly patient study of tenderness under pressure.
★★★★½
Joel Potrykus turns a Michigan-woods suicide pact into deadpan comedy that collapses into genuine grief — shoestring craft, full-strength devastation.
★★★★★
Park and Crossingham needle smart-home gadgetry and AI anxieties without losing stop-motion's cozy handmade charm—Wallace and Gromit still deliver.
★★★★☆
Julio Torres's Problemista renders the immigrant's fight for a US visa as a whimsical, anxiety-drenched fairy tale — a singular comic vision with Tilda Swinton as a monstrous art-world gorgon, equal parts absurd and quietly furious.
★★★★★
Wim Wenders's Perfect Days follows a Tokyo toilet cleaner through the small rituals of an ordered life, and locates in them a quiet transcendence — a serene, deeply humane film crowned by Kōji Yakusho's Cannes-winning performance.
