Bylined reviews with verdicts and scores — most recently published or updated first. Showing 97–120 of 621 movie reviews.
★★★★☆
Ghostlight is Kelly O'Sullivan and Alex Thompson's tender drama about a grieving construction worker who stumbles into community theatre, played by a real family with rare honesty.
Most critics found Hamnet a devastating, beautifully acted study of love and grief led by Jessie Buckley, though a vocal minority called Chloé Zhao's film manipulative and slow.
★★★★½
House of Flying Daggers is Zhang Yimou's lush wuxia romance, a film whose colour, choreography and sound matter more than its tangled plot of loyalties.
Critics agreed the live-action How to Train Your Dragon is a faithful, handsome, well-cast remake of the 2010 film, but split sharply over whether such a close copy was worth making.
Critics hailed Pixar's Inside Out as one of the studio's boldest and most moving films, praising its inventive premise and its case for sadness, with only minor doubts about a routine middle act.
Critics broadly agreed that Jurassic World Rebirth is a well-staged dinosaur adventure from Gareth Edwards, but many found its characters thin and its story too familiar to feel like a real rebirth.
Critics found KPop Demon Hunters a funny, energetic and gorgeously animated musical with irresistible songs, though several called the plot thin or predictable and one questioned how it treats fame.
★★★★☆
Laal Kabootar is Kamal Khan's stylish Karachi crime thriller, in which a taxi driver and a grieving widow collide in the city's underworld. Confident, gritty noir.
★★★★☆
Left-Handed Girl is Shih-Ching Tsou's intimate Taipei drama about a single mother and her daughters running a night-market stall, observed with warmth and bite.
Critics were divided on Disney's live-action Lilo & Stitch: several found it warm, charming and well cast, while others saw a longer, tamer copy of the 2002 animated original.
★★★★☆
Marry My Dead Body is Cheng Wei-hao's Taiwanese ghost comedy in which a homophobic cop is forced to marry a gay man's spirit, a messy, big-hearted genre mash-up.
Critics largely hailed Marty Supreme as a breathless, abrasive character study powered by Timothée Chalamet, though some found its supporting roles thin and its moral outlook shallow.
★★★★☆
Miracle (Mucize) is Mahsun Kırmızıgül's sentimental Turkish drama about a teacher posted to a remote eastern village. Heartfelt and handsome, if heavy-handed.
★★★★½
My Father's Shadow is Akinola Davies Jr.'s tender debut about two boys spending a day in Lagos with their elusive father as Nigeria's 1993 election crisis unfolds.
★★★★☆
Omo Ghetto: The Saga is Funke Akindele's rowdy Lagos crime comedy about twin sisters from very different worlds, a loud, crowd-pleasing Nollywood blockbuster.
★★★★½
Organize İşler is Yılmaz Erdoğan's quick-witted Istanbul crime comedy about a gang of small-time swindlers, a much-quoted favourite of modern Turkish humour.
Most critics have rated Perfect Blue as a clever, unnerving psychological thriller about fame and identity, though one early reviewer found it shallow and exploitative and even admirers conceded that its plot does not always cohere.
Most critics found Predator: Badlands a lively, surprisingly warm reinvention that makes a young Predator the hero, though a vocal minority felt the softer approach drains the series of its menace.
★★★★☆
Rewind is a Filipino time-travel melodrama in which a grieving husband gets a chance to relive the day he lost his family, anchored by Dingdong Dantes and Marian Rivera.
★★★½☆
Sheriff: Narko Integriti is Syafiq Yusof's loud, crowd-pleasing Malaysian narcotics thriller, a 2024 box-office hit that trades subtlety for scale and momentum.
Most critics hailed Sinners as an original, ambitious and beautifully made blend of vampire horror and blues history, with reservations about its slow first hour and sprawling length.
Critics in 2012 largely hailed The Avengers as a witty, well-balanced ensemble blockbuster, crediting Joss Whedon's writing, Mark Ruffalo's Hulk and Tom Hiddleston's Loki, while noting a thin plot and faceless villains.
Critics were split on The Conjuring: Last Rites: several welcomed a heartfelt farewell for Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga's Warrens, but many found it overlong, overstuffed and short on fresh scares.
★★★½☆
The Herd is Daniel Etim Effiong's tense Nigerian kidnapping thriller, in which a wedding party is seized on the road home: timely and gripping, if overstuffed.
