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Short review 4 min read English Toni Erdmann (2016)

Toni Erdmann (2016) Review: A Father's Longest Joke

Toni Erdmann is Maren Ade's long, excruciatingly funny German comedy about a prankster father and his corporate daughter, and it hides real grief under the gags.

86%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Top Boy (2011)

Top Boy (2011) Review: Hackney's Drug Trade, Seen Whole

Top Boy is Ronan Bennett's raw, gripping drama about drug dealers on an east London estate, eight tense episodes that treat everyone, dealer or child, as a person.

86%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Toss-Up (2004)

Toss-Up (2004) Review: Two Soldiers, Two Homecomings

Toss-Up (Yazı Tura) follows two Turkish soldiers who come home wounded from service in the southeast, a bruising, uneven drama about what war leaves behind.

75%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Train to Busan (2016)

Train to Busan (2016) Review: Panic in Every Carriage

Train to Busan traps a father, his daughter and a carriage of strangers on a speeding train during a zombie outbreak, and it is as moving as it is relentless.

81%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Trainspotting (1996)

Trainspotting (1996) Review: Addiction at Full Volume

Trainspotting is Danny Boyle's electric, blackly funny film of Irvine Welsh's novel about Edinburgh heroin users, and it still feels dangerous three decades on.

84%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Transcendence (2014)

Transcendence (2014) Review: Big Ideas, Cold Circuits

Transcendence uploads Johnny Depp's dying scientist into a computer; Wally Pfister's debut looks superb and raises big questions, but it rarely comes alive.

43%
Celluloid Not Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Trese (2021)

Trese (2021) Review: Manila's Supernatural Noir

Trese is Netflix's animated take on the Filipino komiks about occult detective Alexandra Trese, a striking folklore noir whose six episodes feel thinly plotted.

73%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English TRON: Legacy (2010)

TRON: Legacy (2010) Review: A Neon Dream, Thinly Plotted

TRON: Legacy sends Sam Flynn into the digital Grid to find his father; Joseph Kosinski's sequel is a dazzling sound-and-light show with a thin story underneath.

58%
Celluloid Not Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Tropical Malady (2004)

Tropical Malady (2004) Review: A Romance That Turns Feral

Tropical Malady is Apichatpong Weerasethakul's two-part Thai fable, a tender gay romance that becomes a hypnotic jungle legend; mesmerising, if deeply elusive.

81%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English True Beauty (2020)

True Beauty (2020) Review: Makeup, Masks and Crushes

True Beauty is a 16-episode K-drama about a bullied teen who reinvents herself with makeup, a charming, prettily cast high school romance that skims its big themes.

74%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Tumbbad (2018)

Tumbbad (2018) Review: Folk Horror Soaked in Greed

Tumbbad is a rain-drenched Hindi folk horror film about a man obsessed with a cursed family treasure, and one of Indian cinema's most striking genre achievements.

74%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Twenty-Five Twenty-One (2022)

Twenty-Five Twenty-One (2022) Review: Youth at Full Lunge

Twenty-Five Twenty-One is a Korean coming-of-age drama about a teenage fencer and a ruined heir, lit up by Kim Tae-ri's ferocious, funny lead performance.

86%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Twinkling Watermelon (2023)

Twinkling Watermelon (2023) Review: Meeting Dad as a Teen

Twinkling Watermelon is a Korean time-slip drama in which a hearing son of Deaf parents lands in 1995 and meets his father young, told with rare tenderness.

87%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Uncut Gems (2019)

Uncut Gems (2019) Review: Sandler's Relentless Gamble

Uncut Gems stars Adam Sandler as a New York jeweller who cannot stop betting, and the Safdie brothers make his chaos thrilling, funny and completely exhausting.

84%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Utopia (2013)

Utopia (2013) Review: Paranoia in Acid Yellow

Utopia is Dennis Kelly's Channel 4 conspiracy thriller about comic-book fans hunted over a manuscript, as striking to look at as it is brutal to sit through.

82%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Distant (2002)

Distant (2002) Review: Two Cousins, One Frozen City

Distant (Uzak) is Nuri Bilge Ceylan's spare, wintry Istanbul drama about two lonely cousins sharing a flat, and the quiet breakthrough of a major director.

84%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash (2021)

Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash Review: Pulp Romance

Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash is Edwin's 1980s-style Indonesian pulp romance about a brawler and a fighter, bold, funny and deliberately rough-edged.

76%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Victoria (2015)

Victoria (2015) Review: One Take, One Night, No Escape

Victoria follows a young Spanish woman through one Berlin night in a single unbroken take, and Sebastian Schipper's gamble becomes a breathtaking crime thriller.

80%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Viet and Nam (2024)

Viet and Nam (2024) Review: Tenderness Underground

Viet and Nam is Trương Minh Quý's hushed Vietnamese romance between two young coal miners, a dreamlike film in which love lives in glances and silence.

77%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Vikram (2022)

Vikram (2022) Review: A Loud, Lethal Crime Saga

Vikram is Lokesh Kanagaraj's sprawling Tamil action thriller starring Kamal Haasan, Fahadh Faasil and Vijay Sethupathi, and a thunderous crowd-pleaser at heart.

81%
Celluloid Recommended
Ulasan singkat 3 menit baca Bahasa Indonesia Vina: Sebelum 7 Hari (2024)

Review Vina: Sebelum 7 Hari (2024): Tragedi Nyata Jadi Horor

Vina: Sebelum 7 Hari karya Anggy Umbara mengangkat kasus pembunuhan nyata di Cirebon lewat bingkai horor. Tegang dan efektif, tetapi caranya patut dipertanyakan.

Short review 4 min read English Volver (2006)

Volver (2006) Review: Almodóvar's Warmest Ghost Story

Volver is Pedro Almodóvar's funny, moving melodrama about Madrid sisters, family secrets and a mother's ghost, with Penélope Cruz at her very best.

83%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English Vulcanizadora (2024)

Vulcanizadora (2024) Review: Deadpan Comedy, Real Grief

Vulcanizadora follows two Michigan friends into the woods to carry out a suicide pact; Joel Potrykus's deadpan comedy turns into something genuinely devastating.

77%
Celluloid Recommended
Short review 4 min read English W (2016)

W (2016) Review: A Hero Who Hunts His Author

W is a Korean fantasy thriller in which a surgeon is pulled into her father's webtoon and meets its hero, a clever metafictional romance with a slippery back half.

79%
Celluloid Recommended