Bylined reviews with verdicts and scores — most recently published or updated first. Showing 169–192 of 904 reviews.
★★★½☆
Aisha Can't Fly Away is Morad Mostafa's unsettling Egyptian drama about a Sudanese woman trapped in a gang-ruled Cairo district, where realism edges into horror.
★★★★½
Akira is Katsuhiro Otomo's cyberpunk anime landmark about bikers, psychic power and a city on the brink, and its hand-drawn spectacle is still breathtaking.
★★★★½
Alchemy of Souls is the Hong sisters' lavish Korean fantasy about an assassin trapped in a servant's body, a funny, romantic epic whose first part is close to perfect.
★★★★☆
Alice in Borderland drops a drifting young gamer into an emptied Tokyo run by lethal games; it is a slick Japanese survival thriller with real emotional stakes.
★★★★½
Ridley Scott's Alien (1979) is a slow-burn haunted-house film set aboard a grimy space freighter, and it is still the benchmark for science fiction horror.
★★★★☆
Alif is a Pakistani spiritual romance about a man torn between worldly ambition and faith; slow and polarising, it is lifted by mood and Sajal Aly's performance.
★★★★½
All About My Mother is Pedro Almodóvar's Oscar-winning melodrama about a grieving nurse and the women who take her in, and perhaps his most generous film.
★★★★☆
All of Us Are Dead traps a Korean high school class inside a zombie outbreak; it is brutal, gripping teen horror, though its long episodes stretch the siege thin.
★★★★½
Edward Berger's All Quiet on the Western Front is a harrowing, Oscar-winning German take on Remarque's novel that strips the First World War of any glory.
★★★½☆
All That's Left of You is Cherien Dabis's sweeping Palestinian family drama across seven decades: moving and urgent, if long and uneven in its structure.
★★★★☆
Payal Kapadia's All We Imagine as Light follows three women who work at a Mumbai hospital: a tender, luminous Cannes prize-winner that asks for patience.
★★★★½
Amélie is Jean-Pierre Jeunet's candy-coloured Montmartre fairy tale about a shy waitress who meddles in strangers' lives, and it still charms decades later.
★★★★½
American History X is Tony Kaye's searing drama about a former neo-Nazi trying to save his younger brother, driven by Edward Norton's ferocious performance.
★★★★½
Amores Perros is Alejandro González Iñárritu's electrifying debut: three Mexico City stories linked by a car crash and by the dogs their characters love.
★★★★½
Michael Haneke's Amour follows an elderly Paris couple after the wife's stroke: a rigorous, devastating Palme d'Or winner about what love asks of us late in life.
★★★★½
Justine Triet's Anatomy of a Fall is a gripping Palme d'Or-winning courtroom drama in which a writer's murder trial becomes a forensic dissection of her marriage.
★★★★½
Sriram Raghavan's Andhadhun is a Hindi black-comedy thriller about a pianist tangled in a murder: a twisty, wickedly funny crowd-pleaser with a superb Tabu.
★★★★★
Andor rebuilds Star Wars as an adult political thriller about surveillance, prison labour and radicalisation, and it is the finest drama the franchise has produced.
★★★½☆
Vivian Qu's Angels Wear White is a quietly furious Chinese drama about two girls assaulted in a seaside motel and the teenage witness who says nothing.
★★★★☆
Angry Mom sends a former teenage brawler back to high school to protect her bullied daughter, a K-drama that starts as comedy and grows into a sharp school drama.
★★★★☆
Anikulapo is Kunle Afolayan's lavish Yoruba folk fantasy about a weaver who gains the power to raise the dead: handsome, bold and absorbing, if overlong.
★★★½☆
Sandeep Reddy Vanga's Animal is a three-hour-plus Hindi revenge saga about a son's violent devotion to his father: bravura filmmaking with a troubling heart.
★★★½☆
Luc Besson's Anna is a slick Cold War assassin thriller about a KGB killer posing as a Paris model: stylish, twisty fun, though very familiar territory.
★★★★★
Sean Baker's Anora follows a Brooklyn stripper who impulsively marries an oligarch's son: a Palme d'Or-winning screwball comedy with a bruised, beating heart.
