The Pianist (2002) Review: Survival Without Heroics
★★★★½
The Pianist is Roman Polanski's Holocaust drama about Władysław Szpilman's survival in occupied Warsaw, an austere, harrowing film anchored by Adrien Brody.
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★★★★½
The Pianist is Roman Polanski's Holocaust drama about Władysław Szpilman's survival in occupied Warsaw, an austere, harrowing film anchored by Adrien Brody.
★★★★★
The Pitt is HBO Max's real-time emergency room drama, each season one Pittsburgh shift, and Noah Wyle's weary attending makes it the new benchmark for medical TV.
★★★★★
The Plague is Charlie Polinger's startling debut about boys at a 2003 water polo camp, a coming-of-age drama that turns preteen social panic into near-horror.
★★★★½
The Prestige is Christopher Nolan's Victorian thriller about two rival stage magicians, an intricately built puzzle that rewards attention and repays a second viewing.
★★★★½
The Promised Land stars Mads Mikkelsen as an 18th-century captain trying to farm the Danish heath, a gripping, classically built period saga with a Western's grit.
★★★½☆
The Prosecutor is Donnie Yen's Hong Kong legal thriller about a wrongful drug charge, an odd but entertaining mix of courtroom drama and bone-crunching action.
★★★½☆
The Protector, Netflix's first Turkish original, makes an Istanbul antiques dealer the city's last guardian against immortals: brisk, handsome, thinly plotted fun.
★★★★½
The Queen's Gambit is Netflix's seven-episode chess drama about an orphaned prodigy, a stylish, absorbing miniseries built on Anya Taylor-Joy's mesmerising lead.
★★★★☆
The Raid 2 sends Iko Uwais undercover in Jakarta's underworld, expanding Gareth Evans's siege film into a sprawling crime saga with some of cinema's greatest fights.
★★★½☆
The Rings of Power is Prime Video's Second Age Tolkien prequel, a visually lavish fantasy epic whose sprawling cast and stately pacing keep it from true greatness.
★★★★☆
The Romance of Tiger and Rose is a 24-episode Chinese fantasy rom-com in which a screenwriter wakes up inside her own script, a playful genre spoof led by Zhao Lusi.
★★★★☆
The Sandman is Netflix's adaptation of Neil Gaiman's comic about the King of Dreams, a gothic, reverent fantasy at its best when telling small, strange stories.
★★★★☆
The Scarecrow is a 12-episode Korean thriller drawn from the Hwaseong murders, a slow-burn procedural that turns its anger on the system as much as the killer.
★★★★½
The Sea Inside is Alejandro Amenábar's true story of a Galician man fighting for the right to die, and Javier Bardem makes it warm, funny and quietly devastating.
★★★★½
The Second Mother is Anna Muylaert's sharp, funny Brazilian drama about a live-in housekeeper, her daughter and the unspoken class rules of a São Paulo home.
★★★★★
The Seed of the Sacred Fig is Mohammad Rasoulof's gripping Iranian family thriller, in which a judge's missing pistol exposes a household and a regime at war with itself.
★★★½☆
The Seen and Unseen is Kamila Andini's Balinese fable about a girl facing her twin brother's illness, told through dance and dream more than conventional drama.
★★★★½
The Shadow Strays karya Timo Tjahjanto mengikuti pembunuh bayaran muda yang melawan mentornya demi seorang bocah. Laga Indonesia yang brutal dan sangat terampil.
★★★★★
The Shawshank Redemption is Frank Darabont's prison drama about a friendship that outlasts decades behind bars, and it still earns every ounce of its reputation.
★★★★½
The Silence of the Lambs is Jonathan Demme's landmark FBI thriller, with Jodie Foster's trainee and Anthony Hopkins's Lecter locked in a duel that still unnerves.
★★★★½
The Skin I Live In is Pedro Almodóvar's icy, elegant thriller about a surgeon and the woman he keeps captive, a disturbing puzzle that is best seen knowing little.
★★★★★
The Sopranos is David Chase's HBO drama about a New Jersey mob boss in therapy, a darkly funny, novelistic masterpiece that set the template for prestige TV.
★★★★☆
The Substance is Coralie Fargeat's gory, gleefully excessive satire in which Demi Moore's fading star takes a serum that creates a younger, better version of herself.
★★★★☆
The Testaments is Hulu's adaptation of Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale sequel, a tense coming-of-age drama set inside Gilead and led by a breakout Chase Infiniti.