Bylined reviews with verdicts and scores — most recently published or updated first. Showing 817–840 of 904 reviews.
★★★★☆
The Traitors is the BBC's castle-set reality game of lies and paranoia hosted by Claudia Winkleman, the rare format that makes group psychology gripping television.
★★★★☆
The Truman Show is Peter Weir's sunny, unsettling satire about a man whose whole life is a TV show, and Jim Carrey's best dramatic turn is at its heart.
★★★★½
The Umbrella Academy is Netflix's comic-book saga about estranged superpowered siblings racing to stop the apocalypse, a funny, stylish family drama in disguise.
★★★★☆
The Uncanny Counter is a Korean webtoon adaptation about spirit hunters based in a noodle shop, a fun supernatural action series powered by found-family warmth.
★★★★½
The Untamed is a 50-episode Chinese xianxia epic about two young cultivators bound by loyalty across death, a lavish fantasy whose central bond won a global fandom.
★★★★½
The Usual Suspects is Bryan Singer's twisty 1990s crime thriller about five crooks, one interrogation and a legendary villain, still a model of tricky storytelling.
★★★★☆
The Vampire Lestat turns Anne Rice's brat prince into a rock star with a confession to make, an audacious gothic series built around Sam Reid's commanding lead.
★★★½☆
The Villainess is Jung Byung-gil's Korean assassin thriller, with a jaw-dropping first-person opening and a messier revenge melodrama built around Kim Ok-vin.
★★★★☆
The Wandering Earth 2 is Frant Gwo's huge Chinese sci-fi prequel about building the engines that will move the planet, a richer, longer film than the original.
★★★½☆
The Wandering Earth is Frant Gwo's Chinese sci-fi blockbuster about a frozen Earth pushed across space by giant engines, huge in scale and thinner in its characters.
★★★★☆
The Wedding Party is Kemi Adetiba's glossy Nollywood ensemble comedy about a lavish Lagos wedding where two families, old flames and family secrets collide.
★★★★½
The White Lotus is Mike White's HBO anthology of holidays gone wrong, a cruel, funny class satire that opens each season with a death and then dissects the guests.
★★★★½
The White Ribbon is Michael Haneke's chilling black-and-white mystery about strange crimes in a German village before the First World War, and his Palme d'Or winner.
★★★★½
The Wild Robot is Chris Sanders's gorgeous DreamWorks adaptation about a stranded robot raising an orphaned gosling, a funny and moving family film for all ages.
★★★★★
The Wire is David Simon's five-season HBO drama that turns a Baltimore drug case into a portrait of a whole city, and it remains TV's most ambitious crime saga.
★★★★☆
The Witcher is Netflix's dark fantasy saga about Geralt of Rivia, a mutant monster hunter bound to a sorceress and a lost princess: lavish, uneven and gripping.
★★★★☆
Thelma is Josh Margolin's warm, funny comedy in which June Squibb plays a grandmother who sets out across Los Angeles to recover money stolen by phone scammers.
★★★★☆
Three-Body is Tencent's 30-episode adaptation of Liu Cixin's science fiction novel, a faithful, atmospheric mystery that rewards patience with intellectual chills.
★★★½☆
Three Monkeys is Nuri Bilge Ceylan's brooding Istanbul drama about a family that agrees to a lie to survive, and the silences that slowly poison its home.
★★★★☆
Time is Jimmy McGovern's BBC prison anthology, two short, harrowing seasons about guilt and survival behind bars, powered by outstanding performances throughout.
★★★★½
Titanic is James Cameron's colossal romantic disaster epic, pairing Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet with a staggering recreation of the doomed ocean liner.
★★★★☆
To a Land Unknown is Mahdi Fleifel's tense drama about two Palestinian cousins stuck in Athens and chasing forged passports, a refugee story told like a crime film.
★★★★½
Tokyo Story is Yasujirō Ozu's quiet masterpiece about an elderly couple visiting their busy adult children, a film whose gentle surface hides deep emotional force.
★★★½☆
The Protector (Tom Yum Goong) sends Tony Jaa to Australia after a stolen elephant; the story is flimsy, but its fight scenes remain some of the best ever filmed.
