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Short review 4 min read English Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) Review: The Art of Looking

Portrait of a Lady on Fire is Céline Sciamma's 18th-century French love story between a painter and her reluctant subject, a romance built on precise, intense looking.

90%
Celluloid Celluloid Pick
Short review 4 min read English Premalu (2024)

Premalu (2024) Review: A Hyderabad Crush, Played for Laughs

Premalu is Girish A. D.'s breezy Malayalam romantic comedy about a lovestruck graduate chasing a confident IT professional in Hyderabad, with laughs to spare.

78%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Princess Mononoke (1997)

Princess Mononoke (1997) Review: A War With No Villains

Princess Mononoke is Hayao Miyazaki's animated fantasy epic about a cursed prince caught between a forest's gods and an ironworks town, and it refuses easy villains.

85%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Problemista (2023)

Problemista (2023) Review: Kafka With a Toy Designer's Eye

Problemista is Julio Torres's surreal New York comedy about a Salvadoran toy designer racing to save his US visa, with Tilda Swinton as his impossible new employer.

73%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Project A (1983)

Project A (1983) Review: Jackie Chan's Pirate-Busting Romp

Project A is Jackie Chan's period action comedy about a coast guard officer fighting pirates in colonial Hong Kong, a loose story built around dazzling stunt work.

81%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Project: High Council (2023)

Project: High Council (2023) Review: Rule by Fear at School

Project: High Council is a Malaysian boarding-school thriller about a secret student council ruling through bullying and blackmail; angry and bold, but uneven.

68%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Psycho (1960)

Psycho (1960) Review: Hitchcock Pulls the Rug Out

Psycho is Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 thriller about a fleeing office worker and a lonely motel keeper, a film that rewired horror and still plays with its audience's nerves.

83%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Pulp Fiction (1994)

Pulp Fiction (1994) Review: Talk, Time and Sudden Violence

Pulp Fiction is Quentin Tarantino's Palme d'Or-winning Los Angeles crime film, a shuffled deck of hitmen, boxers and robbers that changed American cinema in the 1990s.

90%
Celluloid Celluloid Pick
Short review 4 min read English Pushpa 2 - The Rule (2024)

Pushpa 2: The Rule (2024) Review: Swagger at Full Volume

Pushpa 2: The Rule is Sukumar's Telugu mass-action sequel in which Allu Arjun's smuggler king chases power and respect, bigger and louder but looser than the first film.

70%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Pushpa: The Rise (2021)

Pushpa: The Rise (2021) Review: The Making of a Mass Icon

Pushpa: The Rise is Sukumar's Telugu action drama about a labourer's climb through the red sandalwood smuggling trade, carried by Allu Arjun's iconic lead turn.

73%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Queen (2013)

Queen (2013) Review: A Solo Honeymoon Worth Taking

Queen is Vikas Bahl's Hindi comedy-drama about a jilted Delhi bride who takes her honeymoon alone in Europe, lifted by Kangana Ranaut's funny, disarming lead turn.

81%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Queen of Tears (2024)

Queen of Tears (2024) Review: Marriage, Money and Melodrama

Queen of Tears is Park Ji-eun's 16-episode K-drama about a chaebol marriage on the brink, a lavish mix of in-law comedy, weepie and boardroom intrigue.

89%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Raging Fire (2021)

Raging Fire (2021) Review: Benny Chan Goes Out Firing

Raging Fire pits Donnie Yen's upright cop against Nicholas Tse's vengeful former protégé in Benny Chan's final film, a Hong Kong action thriller built on set pieces.

73%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Raise the Red Lantern (1991)

Raise the Red Lantern (1991) Review: A Gilded Prison

Raise the Red Lantern is Zhang Yimou's severe, ravishing drama of a young concubine in a 1920s household, with Gong Li at her best as a woman learning its rules.

89%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Ran (1985)

Ran (1985) Review: Kurosawa's King Lear in Flames

Ran is Akira Kurosawa's King Lear transplanted to feudal Japan, a vast, colour-drenched tragedy of a warlord and his sons that ranks among the great war films.

91%
Celluloid Celluloid Pick
Short review 4 min read English Raqeeb Se (2021)

Raqeeb Se (2021) Review: Old Love in a Crowded House

Raqeeb Se is Kashif Nisar's Hum TV drama about a woman who flees her marriage to the home of a man she once loved; a literate, sharply acted Pakistani serial.

82%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Rashomon (1950)

Rashomon (1950) Review: The Truth in Pieces

Rashomon is Akira Kurosawa's compact drama of a forest crime told by witnesses who cannot agree, the 88-minute film that made the world look at Japanese cinema.

92%
Celluloid Celluloid Pick
Short review 4 min read English Recep Ivedik (2008)

Recep Ivedik (2008) Review: Turkey's Loudest Anti-Hero

Recep Ivedik unleashes Şahan Gökbakar's boorish, beloved creation on a trip to Antalya, a crude Turkish comedy that became a pop-culture phenomenon.

50%
Celluloid Not Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Red Cliff (2008)

Red Cliff (2008) Review: John Woo's Three Kingdoms Epic

Red Cliff is John Woo's lavish retelling of the Three Kingdoms battle, with Tony Leung and Takeshi Kaneshiro as allies facing Cao Cao's vast army and fleet.

78%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Red Eye (2005)

Red Eye (2005) Review: A Thriller in Economy Class

Red Eye traps Rachel McAdams beside a menacing Cillian Murphy on an overnight flight, and Wes Craven's 85-minute thriller is tense until it touches down.

70%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Reply 1988 (2015)

Reply 1988 (2015) Review: One Alley, Five Families

Reply 1988 is a 20-episode Korean family drama about five households sharing one Seoul alley in the Olympic year, and one of the warmest coming-of-age series made.

91%
Celluloid Celluloid Pick
Short review 4 min read English Rivals (2024)

Rivals (2024) Review: Champagne, Sex and Thatcher-Era TV

Rivals adapts Jilly Cooper's 1980s bonkbuster into a lavish, knowing British drama about a TV franchise war, with David Tennant as a gloriously hateful villain.

84%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Robot Dreams (2023)

Robot Dreams (2023) Review: A Friendship Without Words

Robot Dreams is Pablo Berger's dialogue-free animated film about a lonely dog and the robot he builds in 1980s New York, a small story with a big emotional reach.

86%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani (2023)

Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani Review: Big Heart, Big Noise

Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani is Karan Johar's lavish Hindi family romance, pairing Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt as lovers from clashing Delhi households.

61%
Celluloid Recommended