Bylined reviews with verdicts and scores — most recently published or updated first. Showing 505–528 of 621 movie reviews.
★★★★☆
The Chaser is Na Hong-jin's ferocious Seoul serial-killer thriller, in which a disgraced ex-cop races a city's indifference as much as the killer himself.
★★★½☆
The Crime Is Mine is François Ozon's 1930s Paris murder farce, a stylish, witty caper about fame and false confessions, with Isabelle Huppert stealing scenes.
★★★★☆
The Crime of Father Amaro stars Gael García Bernal as a young priest drawn into desire and corruption in a Mexican parish, a provocative, gripping melodrama.
★★★★★
The Dark Knight is Christopher Nolan's Batman sequel, a sprawling crime epic in which Heath Ledger's Joker tests Gotham's moral limits. It still sets the bar.
★★★★½
The Departed is Martin Scorsese's Boston remake of Infernal Affairs, a profane, propulsive crime thriller about two moles on opposite sides of the law.
★★★★½
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is Julian Schnabel's true story of a paralysed editor who wrote a memoir by blinking, a film that makes confinement feel limitless.
★★★★½
The Empire Strikes Back is the darker, richer second Star Wars film, a space adventure that splits its heroes apart and gives the saga its emotional depth.
★★★½☆
The Fall Guy stars Ryan Gosling as a stuntman caught up in a missing-star mystery, a charming action romcom and a warm tribute to stunt work, if a baggy one.
★★★★☆
The Figurine is Kunle Afolayan's supernatural thriller about two friends and a statue promising seven years of fortune, an ambitious landmark of new Nigerian cinema.
★★★½☆
The Forsaken Land is Vimukthi Jayasundara's austere Sri Lankan drama about a home guard on a barren frontier, a haunting portrait of lives stalled by war.
★★★☆☆
The Garfield Movie sends the comic strip's laziest cat on a frantic heist caper: a bright, good-natured family cartoon that children will enjoy far more than adults.
★★★★☆
The General is Buster Keaton's silent Civil War train-chase comedy, a feat of stunt engineering and deadpan timing that still outpaces most modern action films.
★★★★★
The Godfather is Francis Ford Coppola's mafia epic about a family business and a son's slow corruption, and more than five decades on it remains the crime film to beat.
★★★★½
The Godfather Part II sets young Vito Corleone's rise against Michael's cold grip on power, a colder, more ambitious sequel that rivals and deepens the 1972 original.
★★★★½
The Goldman Case is Cédric Kahn's gripping French courtroom drama about a 1975 appeal, confined to one Paris courtroom and driven by Arieh Worthalter's volatile lead.
★★★★½
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is Sergio Leone's sprawling 1966 spaghetti western about three gunmen chasing buried gold through a Civil War landscape of ruin.
★★★½☆
The Gospel of the Beast is Sheron R. Dayoc's bleak Filipino coming-of-age drama about a teenager undone by one terrible accident, tough to watch but hard to shake.
★★★☆☆
The Grandmaster is Wong Kar-wai's rain-soaked martial arts elegy about Ip Man and a lost era of kung fu: ravishing to look at, frustrating as a story.
★★★★½
The Great Beauty is Paolo Sorrentino's dazzling, melancholy portrait of an ageing Roman socialite, a Fellini-inspired drama that finds grief beneath the party.
★★★★½
The Green Mile is Frank Darabont's Stephen King prison drama about death-row guards and a gentle giant with a gift, a long, sentimental film that earns its tears.
★★★★½
The Handmaiden is Park Chan-wook's lavish erotic thriller about a pickpocket, an heiress and a swindle, relocated from Victorian England to colonial-era Korea.
★★★☆☆
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey brings Peter Jackson back to Middle-earth with a charming Martin Freeman as Bilbo, but pads a small adventure into a very long film.
★★☆☆☆
The Battle of the Five Armies ends Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy with one long digital siege, and Thorin's gold-fever aside, there is little heart left under the noise.
★★★☆☆
The Desolation of Smaug is the liveliest Hobbit film, with a thrilling barrel chase and Benedict Cumberbatch's superb dragon, though padding still slows the journey.
