Bylined reviews with verdicts and scores — most recently published or updated first. Showing 529–552 of 621 movie reviews.
★★★★☆
The Host is Bong Joon Ho's anarchic Korean creature feature about a hapless family hunting a river monster, as funny and angry as it is frightening.
★★★★☆
The Incredibles is Brad Bird's Pixar superhero comedy about a family of retired heroes stuck in suburbia, a sharp, stylish action film that works for all ages.
★★★★★
The Intouchables is the French comedy-drama about a paralysed aristocrat and his irreverent carer, a joyous odd-couple friendship powered by Omar Sy and François Cluzet.
★★★★½
The King's Speech is Tom Hooper's warm British drama about George VI's stammer and his unlikely therapist, lifted by superb turns from Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush.
★★★½☆
The Lamb is Kutluğ Ataman's wry Turkish village drama about a poor family, a circumcision feast and a boy's terror, small in scale but sharp about pride and poverty.
★★★★☆
The Legend of Drunken Master is Jackie Chan's riotous kung fu comedy about a young Wong Fei-hung and his drunken boxing, home to some of the finest fights ever filmed.
★★★★½
The Legend of Maula Jatt is Bilal Lashari's blood-soaked Punjabi folk epic, a visually spectacular landmark for Pakistani cinema led by Fawad Khan and Hamza Ali Abbasi.
★★★★½
The Leopard is Luchino Visconti's sumptuous Sicilian epic of a prince facing Italian unification, a film about decline as graceful as it is clear-eyed.
★★★★½
The Lion King is Disney's hand-drawn coming-of-age epic about a lion cub and a scheming uncle, a family film with real grief, great songs and a superb villain.
★★★★½
The Lives of Others is a gripping East German surveillance drama about a Stasi officer bugging a playwright, anchored by Ulrich Mühe's masterly, restrained lead.
★★★★½
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is Peter Jackson's grand, tactile opening to the Tolkien trilogy, a fantasy quest that still sets the standard.
★★★★½
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King closes Peter Jackson's trilogy with vast battles and real emotional weight, a finale that earns its three-plus hours.
★★★★½
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers splits the fellowship across Middle-earth and gives the trilogy its war film, its Gollum and its defining siege at Helm's Deep.
★★☆☆☆
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim is an anime prequel about a siege in Rohan, handsome in its landscapes but stiff, thin and too long for its story.
★★★★☆
The Man from Nowhere is a brutal Korean rescue thriller starring Won Bin as a withdrawn pawnbroker, with ferocious fights and a surprisingly tender centre.
★★★★★
The Matrix is the Wachowskis' landmark sci-fi action film about a hacker who learns his world is a simulation, still thrilling, witty and startlingly influential.
★★★★½
The Motorcycle Diaries follows a young Che Guevara across 1950s South America, a warm, beautifully shot road movie that turns a political icon into a searching student.
★★★½☆
The Night Comes for Us is Timo Tjahjanto's ultra-violent Indonesian gangster thriller, with astonishing fight choreography and a story as thin as its gore is thick.
★★★½☆
The One-Armed Swordsman is Chang Cheh's landmark Shaw Brothers wuxia about a maimed fighter, a raw, influential film whose melodrama and fights now feel dated.
★★★★☆
The Orphanage is J.A. Bayona's Spanish ghost story about a mother searching for her missing son, a classically crafted chiller with a devastating emotional core.
★★★★½
The Others is Alejandro Amenábar's gothic ghost story with Nicole Kidman as a mother guarding her children in a dark mansion, a masterclass in restraint and dread.
★★★★½
The Perfect Neighbor is Geeta Gandbhir's documentary about a Florida feud that turned fatal, built from police bodycam footage into a quietly devastating indictment.
★★★★½
The Pianist is Roman Polanski's Holocaust drama about Władysław Szpilman's survival in occupied Warsaw, an austere, harrowing film anchored by Adrien Brody.
★★★★★
The Plague is Charlie Polinger's startling debut about boys at a 2003 water polo camp, a coming-of-age drama that turns preteen social panic into near-horror.
