Bylined reviews with verdicts and scores — most recently published or updated first. Showing 481–504 of 905 reviews.
★★★★½
Line of Duty is Jed Mercurio's BBC police-corruption drama, a series that turns long interrogation scenes into the most gripping set pieces on British TV.
★★★½☆
Lionheart is Genevieve Nnaji's warm Nollywood comedy-drama about a daughter fighting to save her father's bus company, gentle and likeable if rarely surprising.
★★★★½
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain is a French animated film that sees early childhood in Japan through a toddler's eyes, as a flood of colour, wonder and loss.
★★★½☆
Little Trouble Girls is a Slovenian coming-of-age drama in which a shy choir girl's first desire stirs during a convent retreat, told through glances and song.
★★★★☆
Living in Bondage: Breaking Free is Ramsey Nouah's slick sequel to Nollywood's founding occult drama, a Lagos thriller about ambition, secret societies and debt.
★★★½☆
LOLA is Andrew Legge's found-footage alternate history about two sisters in 1941 whose homemade machine hears the future, a playful idea that turns unsettling.
★★★★☆
Look Back is Kiyotaka Oshiyama's hour-long anime about two schoolgirls bound by rivalry and a love of drawing manga, a compact, piercing film about art and loss.
★★★½☆
Lord of the Flies (2026) is Jack Thorne's limited-series take on Golding's novel: handsome and thoughtful, though never free of a story everyone already knows.
★★★½☆
Lost Embrace is Daniel Burman's wry Buenos Aires comedy-drama about a restless young man, his family's shopping arcade and the father who walked out on him.
★★★½☆
Love Alarm is a Korean Netflix romance about an app that reveals who likes you. Its first season is wistful and sharp; the belated second loses its grip.
★★★★☆
Love and Redemption is a 59-episode Chinese xianxia romance about a girl born without feelings and a cursed, masked disciple. Long, but moving once it deepens.
★★★★☆
Love in the Moonlight is a Joseon-era K-drama romance in which a young woman disguised as a eunuch grows close to the crown prince. Charming, if thin on politics.
★★★★½
Lovely Runner is a 16-episode Korean time-slip romance in which a devoted fan tries to save her idol, carried by the irresistible chemistry of its two leads.
★★★★☆
Lucky is Apple TV+'s seven-episode heist thriller starring Anya Taylor-Joy as a con artist on the run. Relentless and slick, it wins on speed, not surprise.
★★★★☆
Lupin is Netflix's French heist series in which Omar Sy plays a thief inspired by Arsène Lupin, avenging his father. Light, clever and carried by its star.
★★★★☆
Luther is the BBC's gothic London crime drama starring Idris Elba as a brilliant, self-destructive detective. Operatic, often lurid and hard to look away from.
★★★½☆
Ma' Rosa is Brillante Mendoza's raw Manila drama about a shopkeeper arrested for dealing and the children scrambling to buy her freedom, anchored by Jaclyn Jose.
★★★★½
Macario is Roberto Gavaldón's Mexican fable about a starving woodcutter who shares a meal with Death on the Day of the Dead, a haunting classic of hunger and fate.
★★★★☆
Mai is Trấn Thành's record-breaking Vietnamese romantic drama about a Ho Chi Minh City masseuse and an unlikely love, a big-hearted melodrama that aims for tears.
★★★★☆
Maid is Netflix's 10-episode drama about a young mother escaping an abusive relationship by cleaning houses. Margaret Qualley leads a tough, humane portrait of poverty.
★★★½☆
Majority is Seren Yüce's cool, unsettling Istanbul drama about a drifting young man, his domineering father and the prejudice he inherits without noticing.
★★★½☆
Man on Fire is Netflix's seven-episode series version of A.J. Quinnell's bodyguard thriller. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II smoulders, but the story simmers more than it burns.
★★★★☆
Manjummel Boys is Chidambaram's Malayalam survival thriller about friends whose trip to the Guna Caves turns into a rescue, a gripping tribute to loyalty.
★★★★½
Margo's Got Money Troubles is Apple TV+'s dramedy with Elle Fanning as a broke young mother who starts an OnlyFans. Funny, frank and full of stubborn love.
