Bylined reviews with verdicts and scores — most recently published or updated first. Showing 217–240 of 904 reviews.
★★★★☆
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.
★★★★☆
Black Mirror is Charlie Brooker's anthology of near-future technology nightmares, uneven across seven seasons but at its best the sharpest satire on television.
★★★★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.
★★★★☆
Bodyguard is Jed Mercurio's six-part BBC thriller about a troubled veteran guarding a hawkish Home Secretary, relentlessly tense even when its plotting strains belief.
★★★★½
BoJack Horseman is Netflix's animated comedy about a washed-up sitcom star who happens to be a horse, and it grew into one of TV's sharpest studies of depression.
★★★★☆
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.
★★★★☆
Boys Over Flowers is the 2009 Korean campus romance that made Lee Min-ho a star, loud and gloriously melodramatic, though its bullying-to-love story has aged badly.
★★★☆☆
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.
★★★★☆
Bridgerton is Netflix's glossy Regency romance, one sibling's courtship per season; four seasons in, the formula still charms even where the gossip machinery creaks.
★★★★☆
Broadchurch is a British crime drama about a boy's murder in a Dorset seaside town, anchored by David Tennant and Olivia Colman and strongest in its grief.
★★★★☆
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.
★★★★☆
Business Proposal is a 12-episode Korean office romcom about a fake blind date gone wrong, and it wins by embracing every cliché with total confidence.
★★★★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☆
Can This Love Be Translated? is the Hong sisters' globe-trotting Netflix romcom about an interpreter and a star, lovely when its leads share a frame, baggy elsewhere.
★★★½☆
Cape Fear (2026) turns the classic revenge thriller into a 10-episode Apple TV+ series; Javier Bardem's Max Cady is unforgettable, even when the story overreaches.
★★★★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
Case No. 9 is a bold Pakistani legal drama in which Saba Qamar's Sehar takes on her powerful boss, and it tackles workplace abuse and the courts with rare courage.
★★★★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.
