Bylined reviews with verdicts and scores — most recently published or updated first. Showing 169–192 of 621 movie reviews.
★★★★★
Sean Baker's Anora follows a Brooklyn stripper who impulsively marries an oligarch's son: a Palme d'Or-winning screwball comedy with a bruised, beating heart.
★★★½☆
Anthropoid dramatises the Czech resistance mission to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich in occupied Prague: a grim, tense WWII thriller with a slow first half.
★★★½☆
Boo Junfeng's Apprentice follows a young prison officer drawn to Singapore's veteran hangman: a taut, unsettling death-row drama that is cool to a fault.
★★★★½
Kleber Mendonça Filho's Aquarius stars Sônia Braga as a Recife widow who refuses to sell her flat to developers: a rich, defiant drama about memory and home.
★★★★☆
Nia Dinata's Arisan! is a sharp, affectionate satire of Jakarta's social elite and a landmark Indonesian comedy about the secrets old friends keep.
★★★½☆
Asog follows Rey, a non-binary teacher and typhoon survivor, on a road trip toward fame: a playful, uneven Filipino hybrid of comedy, documentary and protest.
★★★★½
Ayla is Can Ulkay's Korean War drama about a Turkish soldier who takes in a lost Korean girl, a true-story tearjerker that earns most of its tears.
★★★★½
Baahubali 2: The Conclusion completes S. S. Rajamouli's Telugu epic with bigger battles and richer melodrama, a mythic blockbuster built for the biggest screen.
★★★★☆
Baahubali: The Beginning launches S. S. Rajamouli's Telugu fantasy epic with jaw-dropping set pieces, a dated romance and a story that stops at the halfway mark.
★★★★½
Back to the Future is Robert Zemeckis's 1985 time-travel comedy, a near-flawless feat of storytelling engineering powered by Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd.
★★★★☆
Bacurau is a genre-bending Brazilian western in which a remote village, erased from the map and hunted for sport, fights back. Strange, furious and bold.
★★★½☆
Bajrangi Bhaijaan is Kabir Khan's Hindi crowd-pleaser in which Salman Khan escorts a lost, mute Pakistani girl home. Big-hearted, overlong and politically simple.
★★★★☆
Batman Begins is Christopher Nolan's grounded 2005 origin story, a serious study of fear and vigilantism that rebuilt the superhero film, if not its action scenes.
★★★★½
Battle Royale is Kinji Fukasaku's savage Japanese satire in which a school class is forced to fight to the death, a shocking thriller with a furious heart.
★★★☆☆
Beast is Nelson Dilipkumar's Tamil hostage thriller, with Vijay as a former spy trapped in a hijacked mall. Plenty of star swagger, very little real suspense.
★★★½☆
Becoming Human is Polen Ly's Cambodian fantasy about a ghost who guards an old cinema facing demolition, a gentle, melancholy fable about memory and change.
★★★½☆
Before, Now & Then is Kamila Andini's elegant Indonesian period drama about a woman rebuilding her life in 1960s West Java, carried by two superb performances.
★★★★½
Better Days is Derek Tsang's harrowing Chinese drama about a bullied student and the young street fighter who protects her, a raw, tender and gripping film.
★★★½☆
Big Brother casts Donnie Yen as a former soldier turned teacher fighting for a class of written-off students, an earnest school drama with crisp action breaks.
★★★★☆
Birdman is Alejandro G. Iñárritu's Best Picture-winning backstage comedy, with Michael Keaton as a faded superhero star staking everything on a Broadway play.
★★★★☆
Black Box Diaries is Shiori Ito's Oscar-nominated documentary about investigating her own sexual assault in Japan, a raw and urgent act of self-exposure.
★★★★½
Black Orpheus is Marcel Camus's Palme d'Or-winning retelling of the Orpheus myth at Rio's Carnival, a dazzling romance whose bossa nova score still enchants.
★★★½☆
Blade II hands Wesley Snipes's vampire hunter to Guillermo del Toro, whose grotesque creature design turns a comic-book sequel into a gory, stylish monster movie.
★★★★½
Blue Is the Warmest Color is Abdellatif Kechiche's Palme d'Or-winning three-hour romance, with Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux in astonishing form.
