Bylined reviews with verdicts and scores — most recently published or updated first. Showing 553–576 of 621 movie reviews.
★★★★½
The Prestige is Christopher Nolan's Victorian thriller about two rival stage magicians, an intricately built puzzle that rewards attention and repays a second viewing.
★★★★½
The Promised Land stars Mads Mikkelsen as an 18th-century captain trying to farm the Danish heath, a gripping, classically built period saga with a Western's grit.
★★★½☆
The Prosecutor is Donnie Yen's Hong Kong legal thriller about a wrongful drug charge, an odd but entertaining mix of courtroom drama and bone-crunching action.
★★★★☆
The Raid 2 sends Iko Uwais undercover in Jakarta's underworld, expanding Gareth Evans's siege film into a sprawling crime saga with some of cinema's greatest fights.
★★★★½
The Sea Inside is Alejandro Amenábar's true story of a Galician man fighting for the right to die, and Javier Bardem makes it warm, funny and quietly devastating.
★★★★½
The Second Mother is Anna Muylaert's sharp, funny Brazilian drama about a live-in housekeeper, her daughter and the unspoken class rules of a São Paulo home.
★★★★★
The Seed of the Sacred Fig is Mohammad Rasoulof's gripping Iranian family thriller, in which a judge's missing pistol exposes a household and a regime at war with itself.
★★★½☆
The Seen and Unseen is Kamila Andini's Balinese fable about a girl facing her twin brother's illness, told through dance and dream more than conventional drama.
★★★★½
The Shadow Strays karya Timo Tjahjanto mengikuti pembunuh bayaran muda yang melawan mentornya demi seorang bocah. Laga Indonesia yang brutal dan sangat terampil.
★★★★★
The Shawshank Redemption is Frank Darabont's prison drama about a friendship that outlasts decades behind bars, and it still earns every ounce of its reputation.
★★★★½
The Silence of the Lambs is Jonathan Demme's landmark FBI thriller, with Jodie Foster's trainee and Anthony Hopkins's Lecter locked in a duel that still unnerves.
★★★★½
The Skin I Live In is Pedro Almodóvar's icy, elegant thriller about a surgeon and the woman he keeps captive, a disturbing puzzle that is best seen knowing little.
★★★★☆
The Substance is Coralie Fargeat's gory, gleefully excessive satire in which Demi Moore's fading star takes a serum that creates a younger, better version of herself.
★★★★☆
The Truman Show is Peter Weir's sunny, unsettling satire about a man whose whole life is a TV show, and Jim Carrey's best dramatic turn is at its heart.
★★★★½
The Usual Suspects is Bryan Singer's twisty 1990s crime thriller about five crooks, one interrogation and a legendary villain, still a model of tricky storytelling.
★★★½☆
The Villainess is Jung Byung-gil's Korean assassin thriller, with a jaw-dropping first-person opening and a messier revenge melodrama built around Kim Ok-vin.
★★★★☆
The Wandering Earth 2 is Frant Gwo's huge Chinese sci-fi prequel about building the engines that will move the planet, a richer, longer film than the original.
★★★½☆
The Wandering Earth is Frant Gwo's Chinese sci-fi blockbuster about a frozen Earth pushed across space by giant engines, huge in scale and thinner in its characters.
★★★★☆
The Wedding Party is Kemi Adetiba's glossy Nollywood ensemble comedy about a lavish Lagos wedding where two families, old flames and family secrets collide.
★★★★½
The White Ribbon is Michael Haneke's chilling black-and-white mystery about strange crimes in a German village before the First World War, and his Palme d'Or winner.
★★★★½
The Wild Robot is Chris Sanders's gorgeous DreamWorks adaptation about a stranded robot raising an orphaned gosling, a funny and moving family film for all ages.
★★★★☆
Thelma is Josh Margolin's warm, funny comedy in which June Squibb plays a grandmother who sets out across Los Angeles to recover money stolen by phone scammers.
★★★½☆
Three Monkeys is Nuri Bilge Ceylan's brooding Istanbul drama about a family that agrees to a lie to survive, and the silences that slowly poison its home.
★★★★½
Titanic is James Cameron's colossal romantic disaster epic, pairing Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet with a staggering recreation of the doomed ocean liner.
