From Ground Zero (2024) Review: Gaza in Its Own Words
★★★★☆
From Ground Zero gathers 22 short films made by Palestinian filmmakers in Gaza during the war, an uneven but vital anthology that moves from dark humour to raw grief.
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★★★★☆
From Ground Zero gathers 22 short films made by Palestinian filmmakers in Gaza during the war, an uneven but vital anthology that moves from dark humour to raw grief.
★★★★☆
Game of Thrones is HBO's landmark fantasy epic of warring noble houses and dragons, peerless in its early seasons even though a hurried ending divided its audience.
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Gangs of London is Sky's ferocious crime saga about a power vacuum in the city's underworld, with world-class action from The Raid's Gareth Evans and a merely solid plot.
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Ghilli is Dharani's Tamil action-romance in which Vijay's kabaddi player shields a young woman from a village strongman, and it remains a mass-cinema template.
★★★★☆
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★★★★☆
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★★★★☆
Girl from Nowhere is a dark Thai anthology in which a mysterious transfer student exposes the cruelty and hypocrisy of elite schools, one grim moral fable at a time.
★★★½☆
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★★★★☆
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★★★★½
Gladiator is Ridley Scott's thunderous Roman revenge epic, with Russell Crowe as a betrayed general turned arena fighter, and it still sets the genre's standard.
★★★★★
Goblin is Kim Eun-sook's landmark Korean fantasy romance about a cursed immortal, his destined bride and a lonely grim reaper, funny, lavish and deeply moving.
★★★★½
Godzilla Minus One is Takashi Yamazaki's postwar kaiju drama, in which a guilt-ridden former kamikaze pilot faces the monster: perhaps the best Godzilla film since 1954.
★★★★☆
Gogglebox is Channel 4's long-running reality show in which British households react to the week's TV, and its real subject turns out to be the viewers.
★★★★½
Gomorrah is Matteo Garrone's unflinching Naples crime drama, five interwoven stories that strip every trace of glamour from the Camorra and the lives it controls.
★★★★☆
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★★★★½
Good Bye, Lenin! is Wolfgang Becker's tragicomedy about a son who hides reunification from his mother, and a tender, funny portrait of a country that vanished.
★★★½☆
Good One is India Donaldson's quietly piercing debut, in which a Catskills hiking trip shows a 17-year-old how easily the men around her let her down.
★★★★½
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★★★★½
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★★★½☆
Grisse transplants the Western to the colonial Dutch East Indies, an ambitious eight-episode HBO Asia adventure that looks superb even when its story plays safe.
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★★★★☆
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