Bylined reviews with verdicts and scores — most recently published or updated first. Showing 193–216 of 621 movie reviews.
★★★★☆
Bol is Shoaib Mansoor's fearless Pakistani family drama about a tyrannical father, his daughters and an intersex child, a passionate if overlong plea to be heard.
★★★☆☆
Brahmāstra Part One: Shiva is Ayan Mukerji's Hindi fantasy epic, with Ranbir Kapoor as a young man who can command fire. Dazzling effects, clumsy romance, heavy lore.
★★★½☆
Breakfast on Pluto is Neil Jordan's picaresque 1970s tale of Kitten, an Irish trans woman adrift in London, lifted by Cillian Murphy's fearless lead turn.
★★★★☆
Broker is Hirokazu Kore-eda's Korean road movie about two men selling an abandoned baby, a tender found-family drama that sometimes smooths its crime into fable.
★★★½☆
Brother's Keeper is Ferit Karahan's tense Turkish drama about a sick boy trapped in a snowbound Kurdish boarding school, a lean allegory of neglect and blame.
★★★½☆
Bunohan is Dain Said's moody Malay-language crime fable about three brothers drawn back to their Kelantan village, strong on atmosphere if sometimes opaque.
★★★★½
Burning is Lee Chang-dong's hypnotic Murakami adaptation, a Korean mystery about a young man, an old friend and a rich stranger that simmers with class resentment.
★★★★½
Call Me by Your Name is Luca Guadagnino's sun-soaked 1980s romance about a teenager's first love, lifted by Timothée Chalamet's breakthrough performance.
★★★★½
Casablanca is Michael Curtiz's Second World War romance about a cynical club owner and the lover who walks back into his life, and it still plays beautifully.
★★★★½
Casino Royale is Martin Campbell's hard-edged reboot of James Bond, with Daniel Craig as a raw new 007 facing Mads Mikkelsen's banker across a poker table.
★★★★½
Caught by the Tides is Jia Zhangke's drifting love story built partly from two decades of his own footage, with Zhao Tao ageing alongside a changing China.
★★★★½
Cell 211 is Daniel Monzón's ferocious Spanish prison thriller about a rookie guard forced to pose as an inmate during a riot, led by a towering Luis Tosar.
★★★★½
Central Station is Walter Salles's Brazilian road movie about a jaded letter writer and an orphaned boy, powered by Fernanda Montenegro's extraordinary lead.
★★★½☆
Champions of the Golden Valley is Ben Sturgulewski's uplifting documentary about young Afghan skiers on homemade skis, shadowed by the country's coming collapse.
★★★½☆
Chhaava is Laxman Utekar's Hindi historical epic about the Maratha ruler Sambhaji's war with Aurangzeb, powered by Vicky Kaushal but loud, long and one-sided.
★★★★☆
Chicken for Linda! is a hand-painted French animated farce about a mother's frantic quest to cook her grieving daughter one special dish, and it is a joy.
★★★★★
Cinema Paradiso is Giuseppe Tornatore's Oscar-winning Sicilian memory film about a boy, a projectionist and a village cinema, and it remains overwhelmingly moving.
★★★★½
City Lights is Charlie Chaplin's silent romantic comedy about the Tramp's devotion to a blind flower seller, and it is still as funny as it is heartbreaking.
★★★★★
City of God is Fernando Meirelles's explosive crime saga about boys growing up amid Rio's favela drug wars, and it remains one of the great films of its century.
★★★½☆
Climates is Nuri Bilge Ceylan's austere Turkish breakup drama, starring Ceylan and Ebru Ceylan as a couple drifting apart across summer, autumn and winter.
★★★★½
Coco is Pixar's dazzling Day of the Dead adventure about a Mexican boy who dreams of music and crosses into the Land of the Dead, and it is gloriously moving.
★★★½☆
Come Drink with Me is King Hu's influential Shaw Brothers wuxia film, with Cheng Pei-pei as a swordswoman on a rescue mission, and its best scenes still thrill.
★★★★★
Come See Me in the Good Light follows poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley through a terminal diagnosis and finds a love story as funny as it is brave.
★★★½☆
Conclave turns a papal election into a gripping locked-room thriller, with Ralph Fiennes superb as the cardinal running it. Its late turns are less convincing.
