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Short review 4 min read English Downfall (2004)

Downfall (2004) Review: Last Days in the Bunker

Downfall is Oliver Hirschbiegel's German drama of Hitler's final days in the Berlin bunker, anchored by Bruno Ganz and chilling in its portrait of collapse and denial.

85%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Downton Abbey (2010)

Downton Abbey (2010) Review: Class, Change and Comfort

Downton Abbey is Julian Fellowes's upstairs-downstairs saga of an aristocratic Yorkshire family and their servants, the most satisfying comfort drama of its decade.

82%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Drishyam (2015)

Drishyam (2015) Review: A Film Buff Outwits the Police

Drishyam is Nishikant Kamat's Hindi remake of the Malayalam hit, a clever family thriller in which Ajay Devgn's everyman takes on Tabu's formidable police chief.

74%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Drowning in Holy Water (2020)

Drowning in Holy Water (2020) Review: Faith at a Crossroads

Drowning in Holy Water is Navid Mahmoudi's compact Persian-language drama about a young Afghan couple whose hopes of reaching Europe hinge on a test of faith.

73%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Drunken Master (1978)

Drunken Master (1978) Review: Pain Played for Laughs

Drunken Master is the 1978 Hong Kong kung fu comedy that made Jackie Chan a star. Its training scenes and fights still dazzle, even when the story wanders.

78%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English DTF St. Louis (2026)

DTF St. Louis (2026) Review: Suburban Noir With an Ache

DTF St. Louis is Steven Conrad's seven-part HBO dark comedy about a Midwestern love triangle and a death, sad and funny in equal parts, and oddly moving.

76%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Dune: Part Two (2024)

Dune: Part Two (2024) Review: Spectacle With a Warning

Dune: Part Two is Denis Villeneuve's towering desert war epic, and a sharper film than Part One because it treats its chosen-one hero as a warning.

85%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Review: A Good Roll

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is a fantasy heist comedy that wins by refusing to take itself seriously. It is light, funny and a touch too long.

77%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Dunki (2023)

Dunki (2023) Review: Big Heart, Rough Journey

Dunki pairs Rajkumar Hirani with Shah Rukh Khan for a Hindi comedy-drama about Punjabi villagers chasing England by illegal routes. Warm, sincere and uneven.

61%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Dunkirk (2017)

Dunkirk (2017) Review: Survival Against the Clock

Dunkirk is Christopher Nolan's taut Second World War survival film, told across land, sea and air. A sensory triumph that keeps its characters at arm's length.

86%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Dying to Survive (2018)

Dying to Survive (2018) Review: Laughter With a Conscience

Dying to Survive is Wen Muye's Chinese comedy-drama about a shopkeeper smuggling cheap leukaemia drugs. It is funny, furious and deeply moving.

86%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Eephus (2024)

Eephus (2024) Review: Baseball's Last Long Afternoon

Eephus is Carson Lund's gentle, funny film about the last amateur baseball game on a doomed New England field, and a quietly profound elegy for small rituals.

81%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Egg (2007)

Egg (2007) Review: The Slow Pull of Home

Egg is Semih Kaplanoğlu's quiet Turkish drama about a poet who returns home for his mother's funeral. Patient, beautiful and demanding, it rewards stillness.

75%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Ehd-e-Wafa (2019)

Ehd-e-Wafa (2019) Review: Four Friends, One Country

Ehd-e-Wafa is a Pakistani Urdu drama about four friends whose lives split between the army and civilian ambition, a polished ensemble serial built on loyalty.

85%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Ek Tha Tiger (2012)

Ek Tha Tiger (2012) Review: Romance First, Spying Second

Ek Tha Tiger is Kabir Khan's glossy Hindi spy romance with Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif, the film that launched the Tiger franchise. Charming, but light on tradecraft.

56%
Celluloid Not Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Elite Squad (2007)

Elite Squad (2007) Review: Police War Without Heroes

Elite Squad is José Padilha's ferocious Brazilian police thriller about Rio's BOPE unit. Gripping, brutal and still hotly debated, it is essential crime cinema.

62%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Emilia Pérez (2024)

Emilia Pérez (2024) Review: A Bold, Broken Cartel Musical

Emilia Pérez is Jacques Audiard's Spanish-language cartel musical about a crime boss who transitions and seeks atonement. Audacious, alive and deeply flawed.

63%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Emily in Paris (2020)

Emily in Paris (2020) Review: Escapism, Well Tailored

Emily in Paris is Darren Star's glossy Netflix rom-com about an American marketer abroad: shallow by design, and highly effective as fashion-first comfort viewing.

76%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Empresses in the Palace (2011)

Empresses in the Palace (2011) Review: Survival as Strategy

Empresses in the Palace is the benchmark Chinese palace drama: a 76-episode Qing epic about a young consort learning to survive a harem where every gesture is a move.

85%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Enter the Dragon (1973)

Enter the Dragon (1973) Review: Bruce Lee Goes Global

Enter the Dragon is the 1973 martial arts spy adventure that made Bruce Lee a worldwide legend. The plot is pulp, but his presence and fights remain electrifying.

83%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Review: Suburban Wonder

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is Steven Spielberg's story of a lonely boy and a stranded alien, a family film whose wonder and heartache have barely aged in over 40 years.

87%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Eternal Love (2017)

Eternal Love (2017) Review: Fate, Foxes and Peach Blossoms

Eternal Love is the Chinese fantasy romance that defined xianxia drama: a goddess and a heavenly prince whose love spans three lives, lush, tearful and addictive.

83%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Ethos (2020)

Ethos (2020) Review: Turkey on the Therapist's Couch

Ethos is Berkun Oya's eight-episode Turkish Netflix drama in which a cleaner's therapy sessions open onto a divided Istanbul, patient, humane and quietly radical.

87%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Euphoria (2019)

Euphoria (2019) Review: Teenage Anguish in Neon

Euphoria is Sam Levinson's hyper-stylised HBO drama about teenage addiction and identity, powered by Zendaya's extraordinary lead performance and a dazzling look.

85%
Celluloid Recommended