Bylined reviews with verdicts and scores — most recently published or updated first. Showing 193–216 of 904 reviews.
★★★½☆
Anthropoid dramatises the Czech resistance mission to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich in occupied Prague: a grim, tense WWII thriller with a slow first half.
★★★½☆
Boo Junfeng's Apprentice follows a young prison officer drawn to Singapore's veteran hangman: a taut, unsettling death-row drama that is cool to a fault.
★★★★½
Kleber Mendonça Filho's Aquarius stars Sônia Braga as a Recife widow who refuses to sell her flat to developers: a rich, defiant drama about memory and home.
★★★★★
Arcane turns League of Legends into a painterly animated tragedy about two sisters split by a city's class divide, and it is one of the best series of its decade.
★★★★☆
Nia Dinata's Arisan! is a sharp, affectionate satire of Jakarta's social elite and a landmark Indonesian comedy about the secrets old friends keep.
★★★½☆
Asog follows Rey, a non-binary teacher and typhoon survivor, on a road trip toward fame: a playful, uneven Filipino hybrid of comedy, documentary and protest.
★★★★½
Ayla is Can Ulkay's Korean War drama about a Turkish soldier who takes in a lost Korean girl, a true-story tearjerker that earns most of its tears.
★★★★½
Baahubali 2: The Conclusion completes S. S. Rajamouli's Telugu epic with bigger battles and richer melodrama, a mythic blockbuster built for the biggest screen.
★★★★☆
Baahubali: The Beginning launches S. S. Rajamouli's Telugu fantasy epic with jaw-dropping set pieces, a dated romance and a story that stops at the halfway mark.
★★★★½
Baby Reindeer is Richard Gadd's raw Netflix drama about a comedian and the woman who stalks him, a fearless study of trauma and shame that is very hard to forget.
★★★★½
Back to the Future is Robert Zemeckis's 1985 time-travel comedy, a near-flawless feat of storytelling engineering powered by Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd.
★★★½☆
Backstreet Rookie is a light Korean rom-com set in a neighbourhood convenience store, bright and likeable thanks to Ji Chang-wook and Kim Yoo-jung, but thinly written.
★★★★☆
Bacurau is a genre-bending Brazilian western in which a remote village, erased from the map and hunted for sport, fights back. Strange, furious and bold.
★★★½☆
Bait is Riz Ahmed's six-part satire about a struggling actor up for James Bond, a restless comedy about fame, race and self-doubt that is sharp if sometimes overstuffed.
★★★½☆
Bajrangi Bhaijaan is Kabir Khan's Hindi crowd-pleaser in which Salman Khan escorts a lost, mute Pakistani girl home. Big-hearted, overlong and politically simple.
★★★★☆
Batman Begins is Christopher Nolan's grounded 2005 origin story, a serious study of fear and vigilantism that rebuilt the superhero film, if not its action scenes.
★★★★½
Battle Royale is Kinji Fukasaku's savage Japanese satire in which a school class is forced to fight to the death, a shocking thriller with a furious heart.
★★★☆☆
Beast is Nelson Dilipkumar's Tamil hostage thriller, with Vijay as a former spy trapped in a hijacked mall. Plenty of star swagger, very little real suspense.
★★★½☆
Becoming Human is Polen Ly's Cambodian fantasy about a ghost who guards an old cinema facing demolition, a gentle, melancholy fable about memory and change.
★★★½☆
Before, Now & Then is Kamila Andini's elegant Indonesian period drama about a woman rebuilding her life in 1960s West Java, carried by two superb performances.
★★★★★
Better Call Saul turns Breaking Bad's lawyer into the hero of a patient, devastating character study, and it stands as the equal of the series that spawned it.
★★★★½
Better Days is Derek Tsang's harrowing Chinese drama about a bullied student and the young street fighter who protects her, a raw, tender and gripping film.
★★★½☆
Big Brother casts Donnie Yen as a former soldier turned teacher fighting for a class of written-off students, an earnest school drama with crisp action breaks.
★★★★☆
Birdman is Alejandro G. Iñárritu's Best Picture-winning backstage comedy, with Michael Keaton as a faded superhero star staking everything on a Broadway play.
