Bylined reviews with verdicts and scores — most recently published or updated first. Showing 241–264 of 904 reviews.
★★★★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.
★★★★★
Chernobyl is Craig Mazin's five-episode HBO miniseries about the 1986 reactor disaster, a gripping procedural horror about what happens when a state denies the truth.
★★★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.
★★★½☆
Chicken Nugget is a 10-episode Korean Netflix comedy in which a woman turns into a nugget, and its commitment to a ridiculous premise pays off more often than not.
★★★★☆
Chiraiya is a six-episode Hindi family drama led by Divya Dutta, about a wife who hears a secret that forces her to question her own home, and it hits hard.
★★★★½
Cigarette Girl (Gadis Kretek) is a five-episode Indonesian period romance set in the 1960s clove cigarette trade, gorgeously directed and led by Dian Sastrowardoyo.
★★★½☆
Cinderella and the Four Knights (2016) is a Korean romcom about a student living with three rich brothers, featherweight fun that Park So-dam makes worth watching.
★★★★★
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
Clarkson's Farm follows Jeremy Clarkson trying to run a Cotswolds farm, a very funny reality series that also makes British agriculture surprisingly gripping.
★★★½☆
Clean with Passion for Now is a Korean romcom pairing a germ-phobic CEO with a gloriously messy employee, a sweet, silly watch that Kim Yoo-jung keeps afloat.
★★★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.
★★★★☆
Cobra Kai revives The Karate Kid from the loser's side, and across six seasons it turns nostalgia into a funny, surprisingly heartfelt martial-arts saga.
★★★★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.
★★★★½
Cover-Up profiles investigative reporter Seymour Hersh across decades of unwelcome scoops, and plays as a gripping case study in how buried stories get out.
★★★★½
Crash Landing on You is Park Ji-eun's 16-episode romance about a South Korean heiress stranded in North Korea, a fairy tale sincere enough to earn every tear.
