Bylined reviews with verdicts and scores — most recently published or updated first. Showing 721–744 of 905 reviews.
★★★★☆
The Club is a lavish Turkish period drama set in a 1950s Istanbul nightclub, a moving mother-daughter story that shines a rare light on the city's Jewish community.
★★★★☆
The Comeback follows Lisa Kudrow's fading sitcom star Valerie Cherish across three decades, an excruciatingly funny HBO mockumentary about how Hollywood uses women.
★★★½☆
The Crime Is Mine is François Ozon's 1930s Paris murder farce, a stylish, witty caper about fame and false confessions, with Isabelle Huppert stealing scenes.
★★★★☆
The Crime of Father Amaro stars Gael García Bernal as a young priest drawn into desire and corruption in a Mexican parish, a provocative, gripping melodrama.
★★★★½
The Crown is Peter Morgan's lavish Netflix drama about Elizabeth II's reign, a six-season study of duty's personal cost with three superb actors in the lead role.
★★★★★
The Dark Knight is Christopher Nolan's Batman sequel, a sprawling crime epic in which Heath Ledger's Joker tests Gotham's moral limits. It still sets the bar.
★★★★☆
The Day of the Jackal (2024) updates Frederick Forsyth's assassin thriller as a sleek 10-episode chase, anchored by a cold, precise Eddie Redmayne.
★★★★½
The Departed is Martin Scorsese's Boston remake of Infernal Affairs, a profane, propulsive crime thriller about two moles on opposite sides of the law.
★★★★☆
The Diplomat is Debora Cahn's fast, witty Netflix political thriller, with Keri Russell as a reluctant US ambassador to the UK caught between crisis and marriage.
★★★★½
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is Julian Schnabel's true story of a paralysed editor who wrote a memoir by blinking, a film that makes confinement feel limitless.
★★★☆☆
The Dream Maker is a 40-episode Chinese drama about local cadres turning a beach town into a modern city, led by Zhao Liying and Huang Xiaoming. Earnest, but long.
★★★★½
The Empire Strikes Back is the darker, richer second Star Wars film, a space adventure that splits its heroes apart and gives the saga its emotional depth.
★★★½☆
The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins is a joke-packed mockumentary sitcom pairing Tracy Morgan's disgraced football star with Daniel Radcliffe's earnest filmmaker.
★★★½☆
The Fall Guy stars Ryan Gosling as a stuntman caught up in a missing-star mystery, a charming action romcom and a warm tribute to stunt work, if a baggy one.
★★★★☆
The Fall is Allan Cubitt's chilling Belfast serial-killer drama, with Gillian Anderson's detective hunting Jamie Dornan's killer across three tense seasons.
★★★★½
The Family Man is Raj & DK's Hindi spy thriller in which Manoj Bajpayee's intelligence officer battles terror plots while his home life quietly falls apart.
★★★★☆
The Figurine is Kunle Afolayan's supernatural thriller about two friends and a statue promising seven years of fortune, an ambitious landmark of new Nigerian cinema.
★★★½☆
The Forsaken Land is Vimukthi Jayasundara's austere Sri Lankan drama about a home guard on a barren frontier, a haunting portrait of lives stalled by war.
★★★☆☆
The Garfield Movie sends the comic strip's laziest cat on a frantic heist caper: a bright, good-natured family cartoon that children will enjoy far more than adults.
★★★★☆
The General is Buster Keaton's silent Civil War train-chase comedy, a feat of stunt engineering and deadpan timing that still outpaces most modern action films.
★★★★☆
The Gentlemen is Guy Ritchie's Netflix crime comedy in which Theo James inherits a dukedom and a cannabis empire hidden under it. Stylish, violent and very funny.
★★★½☆
The Ghost Bride is a six-episode Mandarin fantasy mystery set in 1890s Malacca, where a young woman refuses a marriage to a dead man. Gorgeous, if tonally uneven.
★★★½☆
The Gift is a Turkish Netflix mystery in which an Istanbul painter's lifelong symbol surfaces at Göbekli Tepe. Beren Saat anchors a bold but tangled mythic puzzle.
★★★★½
The Glory is Kim Eun-sook's 16-episode Korean revenge thriller, with Song Hye-kyo as a bullying survivor who spends years building a trap for her tormentors.
