Celluloid on CelluloidScore.com — new movie reviews with Celluloid Score ratings, Metascores, audience ratings, and expert critic write-ups. Find the best new movies worth watching.https://celluloidscore.com/en-ushttps://celluloidscore.com/news/ffi-2026-jadwal-nominasi-piala-citra/https://celluloidscore.com/news/ffi-2026-jadwal-nominasi-piala-citra/Nominasi FFI 2026 dijadwalkan 12 Oktober dan malam Piala Citra 20 November. Apa yang sudah diumumkan, perubahan penjurian, dan cara mengikuti hasil resminya.Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTAwardsNewsKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/28-years-later-2025-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/28-years-later-2025-review/Critics largely welcomed 28 Years Later as a bold, strange and often moving return for Danny Boyle and Alex Garland, though several found its lurching tone and sequel-minded ending uneven.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/a-minecraft-movie-2025-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/a-minecraft-movie-2025-review/Most critics found A Minecraft Movie a loud, formulaic video-game adaptation redeemed only in patches by Jared Hess's oddball humour, Jason Momoa and Jennifer Coolidge, though a few called it a charming family romp.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/a-silent-voice-2016-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/a-silent-voice-2016-review/Critics praised A Silent Voice as a tender, visually inventive drama about bullying, guilt and redemption, though several found its condensed manga plot crowded and its deaf heroine too passive.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/avatar-fire-and-ash-2025-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/avatar-fire-and-ash-2025-review/Critics were divided on Avatar: Fire and Ash: nearly all admired James Cameron's spectacle and Oona Chaplin's villain, but many found its story an overlong retread of The Way of Water.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/bring-her-back-2025-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/bring-her-back-2025-review/Critics found Bring Her Back a deeply disturbing horror film about grief, lifted by a chilling Sally Hawkins, though several felt its plotting and finale were looser than its atmosphere.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/bugonia-2025-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/bugonia-2025-review/Critics praised Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons in Bugonia, Yorgos Lanthimos's dark kidnap comedy, but split over whether the film says anything new or simply revels in its own cruelty.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/companion-2025-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/companion-2025-review/Critics broadly enjoyed Companion as a nimble, darkly funny sci-fi thriller carried by Sophie Thatcher, though several found its satire of relationships and technology fairly shallow.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/dead-poets-society-1989-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/dead-poets-society-1989-review/Critics admired Dead Poets Society for Robin Williams's restrained performance, its young cast and Peter Weir's atmospheric direction, while noting predictable conflicts; a later critique questions its idea of teaching.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/deadpool-and-wolverine-2024-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/deadpool-and-wolverine-2024-review/Critics split on Deadpool & Wolverine: some hailed a brisk, very funny team-up that revives Marvel, while others found it an overstuffed, self-satisfied parade of in-jokes and multiverse lore.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/demon-slayer-kimetsu-no-yaiba-infinity-castle-2025-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/demon-slayer-kimetsu-no-yaiba-infinity-castle-2025-review/Critics agreed that Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle is a visual triumph with thrilling fights, but most found its flashback-heavy, episodic structure long and hard going for anyone new to the series.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/despicable-me-2010-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/despicable-me-2010-review/Critics largely warmed to Despicable Me as a funny, good-natured family cartoon with an appealing villain and scene-stealing minions, though several found its redemption story familiar and its final stretch formulaic.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/final-destination-bloodlines-2025-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/final-destination-bloodlines-2025-review/Most critics saw Final Destination Bloodlines as a gleefully gory, knowingly silly revival of the death-trap series with a standout opening, though its characters and later kills drew complaints.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/frankenstein-2025-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/frankenstein-2025-review/Critics praised Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein for its lavish Gothic craft and Jacob Elordi's soulful Creature, while many found it overlong, solemn and heavy-handed with its emotions.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/hamnet-2025-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/hamnet-2025-review/Most critics found Hamnet a devastating, beautifully acted study of love and grief led by Jessie Buckley, though a vocal minority called Chloé Zhao's film manipulative and slow.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/how-to-train-your-dragon-2025-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/how-to-train-your-dragon-2025-review/Critics agreed the live-action How to Train Your Dragon is a faithful, handsome, well-cast remake of the 2010 film, but split sharply over whether such a close copy was worth making.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/inside-out-2015-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/inside-out-2015-review/Critics hailed Pixar's Inside Out as one of the studio's boldest and most moving films, praising its inventive premise and its case for sadness, with only minor doubts about a routine middle act.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/jurassic-world-rebirth-2025-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/jurassic-world-rebirth-2025-review/Critics broadly agreed that Jurassic World Rebirth is a well-staged dinosaur adventure from Gareth Edwards, but many found its characters thin and its story too familiar to feel like a real rebirth.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/kpop-demon-hunters-2025-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/kpop-demon-hunters-2025-review/Critics found KPop Demon Hunters a funny, energetic and gorgeously animated musical with irresistible songs, though several called the plot thin or predictable and one questioned how it treats fame.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/lilo-and-stitch-2025-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/lilo-and-stitch-2025-review/Critics were divided on Disney's live-action Lilo & Stitch: several found it warm, charming and well cast, while others saw a longer, tamer copy of the 2002 animated original.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/marty-supreme-2025-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/marty-supreme-2025-review/Critics largely hailed Marty Supreme as a breathless, abrasive character study powered by Timothée Chalamet, though some found its supporting roles thin and its moral outlook shallow.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/perfect-blue-1998-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/perfect-blue-1998-review/Most critics have rated Perfect Blue as a clever, unnerving psychological thriller about fame and identity, though one early reviewer found it shallow and exploitative and even admirers conceded that its plot does not always cohere.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/predator-badlands-2025-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/predator-badlands-2025-review/Most critics found Predator: Badlands a lively, surprisingly warm reinvention that makes a young Predator the hero, though a vocal minority felt the softer approach drains the series of its menace.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/sinners-2025-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/sinners-2025-review/Most critics hailed Sinners as an original, ambitious and beautifully made blend of vampire horror and blues history, with reservations about its slow first hour and sprawling length.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-avengers-2012-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-avengers-2012-review/Critics in 2012 largely hailed The Avengers as a witty, well-balanced ensemble blockbuster, crediting Joss Whedon's writing, Mark Ruffalo's Hulk and Tom Hiddleston's Loki, while noting a thin plot and faceless villains.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-conjuring-last-rites-2025-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-conjuring-last-rites-2025-review/Critics were split on The Conjuring: Last Rites: several welcomed a heartfelt farewell for Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga's Warrens, but many found it overlong, overstuffed and short on fresh scares.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-long-walk-2025-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-long-walk-2025-review/Critics largely admired The Long Walk as a bleak, gripping Stephen King adaptation powered by Cooper Hoffman and David Jonsson, though several wanted more depth beneath the brutality.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-running-man-2025-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-running-man-2025-review/Critics were split on The Running Man: many enjoyed Glen Powell and the kinetic action in Edgar Wright's Stephen King adaptation, while others found it overlong, blunt in its satire and short on Wright's usual wit.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-super-mario-galaxy-movie-2026-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-super-mario-galaxy-movie-2026-review/Most critics found The Super Mario Galaxy Movie bright, busy and packed with Nintendo references but thin on story and character, though a few enjoyed it as a breezy, affectionate romp.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/wake-up-dead-man-a-knives-out-mystery-2025-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/wake-up-dead-man-a-knives-out-mystery-2025-review/Most critics hailed Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery as a darker, funny and soulful Benoit Blanc case led by a standout Josh O'Connor, though some found it long and light on detection.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/warfare-2025-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/warfare-2025-review/Critics widely praised Warfare as a gruelling, immersive real-time recreation of an Iraq War firefight, though some argued its refusal to give context or characters leaves it emotionally and politically hollow.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/weapons-2025-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/weapons-2025-review/Critics largely praised Weapons as a clever, darkly funny and superbly structured horror mystery from Zach Cregger, though some felt its answers were less frightening than its questions.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/zootopia-2-2025-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/zootopia-2-2025-review/Critics largely welcomed Zootopia 2 as a warm, funny and handsome sequel carried by the Judy and Nick partnership, while noting a weaker mystery than the original and a crowded story.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/your-mother-your-mother-your-mother-2026-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/your-mother-your-mother-your-mother-2026-review/Rangkuman ulasan TIFF yang positif: Mahershala Ali memimpin perpaduan thriller aksi, duka keluarga, dan pergulatan iman yang berani, meski respons terhadap temanya beragam.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTessayReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/news/jaff-2026-jadwal-yogyakarta/https://celluloidscore.com/news/jaff-2026-jadwal-yogyakarta/JAFF ke-21 dijadwalkan berlangsung pada 28 November–5 Desember 2026 di Yogyakarta. Panduan Bahasa Indonesia untuk memeriksa program, tiket, dan informasi pemutaran resmi.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTFestivalsNewsKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/news/venice-film-festival-2026-dates-awards/https://celluloidscore.com/news/venice-film-festival-2026-dates-awards/An archived 8 September briefing from Venice 2026: official programme links, screening context and how to distinguish a selection from an award. Check La Biennale for final results.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTFestivalsNewsKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/20th-century-girl-2022-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/20th-century-girl-2022-review/20th Century Girl is a Korean first-love drama set in 1999, a tender, nostalgic romance that runs on the charm of Kim You-jung and Byeon Woo-seok.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ae-dil-hai-mushkil-2016-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ae-dil-hai-mushkil-2016-review/Ae Dil Hai Mushkil is Karan Johar's glossy Hindi romance about one-sided love, rich in songs and star power but thinner in its characters than its music.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/bajrangi-bhaijaan-2015-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/bajrangi-bhaijaan-2015-review/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.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/beast-2022-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/beast-2022-review/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.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/brahmastra-part-one-shiva-2022-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/brahmastra-part-one-shiva-2022-review/Brahmāstra Part One: Shiva is Ayan Mukerji's Hindi fantasy epic, with Ranbir Kapoor as a young man who can command fire. Dazzling effects, clumsy romance, heavy lore.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/broker-2022-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/broker-2022-review/Broker is Hirokazu Kore-eda's Korean road movie about two men selling an abandoned baby, a tender found-family drama that sometimes smooths its crime into fable.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ek-tha-tiger-2012-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ek-tha-tiger-2012-review/Ek Tha Tiger is Kabir Khan's glossy Hindi spy romance with Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif, the film that launched the Tiger franchise. Charming, but light on tradecraft.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ghilli-2004-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ghilli-2004-review/Ghilli is Dharani's Tamil action-romance in which Vijay's kabaddi player shields a young woman from a village strongman, and it remains a mass-cinema template.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/housefull-2010-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/housefull-2010-review/Housefull is Sajid Khan's loud Hindi farce about a self-declared jinx and his tangled romances, with a strong cast working hard for too few real laughs.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/kapoor-sons-2016-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/kapoor-sons-2016-review/Kapoor & Sons is Shakun Batra's Hindi family drama about estranged brothers returning home, messier and more honest than most, though uneven when it turns to tears.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/lady-vengeance-2005-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/lady-vengeance-2005-review/Lady Vengeance closes Park Chan-wook's Vengeance Trilogy with Lee Young-ae as a woman freed after 13 years in prison. It is his coolest and most morally searching.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/leo-2023-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/leo-2023-review/Leo is Lokesh Kanagaraj's Tamil crime thriller starring Vijay as a Himachal café owner whose peaceful life is shattered by a drug cartel. Stylish but uneven.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/master-2021-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/master-2021-review/Master is Lokesh Kanagaraj's Tamil action thriller pitting Vijay's drunken professor against Vijay Sethupathi's gangster, an electric star clash in a baggy film.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/mersal-2017-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/mersal-2017-review/Mersal is Atlee's Tamil action thriller in which Vijay's doctor and magician go after a corrupt private-healthcare system, a loud mass entertainer with a message.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/om-shanti-om-2007-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/om-shanti-om-2007-review/Om Shanti Om is Farah Khan's lavish reincarnation musical about 1970s Hindi cinema, with Shah Rukh Khan in full star mode and Deepika Padukone's dazzling debut.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/pushpa-2-the-rule-2024-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/pushpa-2-the-rule-2024-review/Pushpa 2: The Rule is Sukumar's Telugu mass-action sequel in which Allu Arjun's smuggler king chases power and respect, bigger and louder but looser than the first film.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/pushpa-the-rise-2021-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/pushpa-the-rise-2021-review/Pushpa: The Rise is Sukumar's Telugu action drama about a labourer's climb through the red sandalwood smuggling trade, carried by Allu Arjun's iconic lead turn.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/saiyaara-2025-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/saiyaara-2025-review/Saiyaara is Mohit Suri's music-driven Hindi romance introducing Ahaan Panday and Aneet Padda as young artists, sincere and tuneful but built from a familiar template.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/sitaare-zameen-par-2025-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/sitaare-zameen-par-2025-review/Sitaare Zameen Par is a warm Hindi sports comedy in which Aamir Khan's disgraced coach trains a basketball team of intellectually disabled players, sweet but overlong.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/soulmate-2023-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/soulmate-2023-review/Soulmate is Min Yong-keun's Korean drama about two women bound since childhood, a bittersweet friendship story led by Kim Da-mi and Jeon So-nee with real bruises in it.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/sultan-2016-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/sultan-2016-review/Sultan is Ali Abbas Zafar's Hindi wrestling melodrama, built around Salman Khan's comeback heroics, with Anushka Sharma giving the film its sharpest edge.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-chaser-2008-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-chaser-2008-review/The Chaser is Na Hong-jin's ferocious Seoul serial-killer thriller, in which a disgraced ex-cop races a city's indifference as much as the killer himself.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/winter-sleep-2014-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/winter-sleep-2014-review/Winter Sleep, Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Palme d'Or winner, shuts a proud hotel owner in snowbound Anatolia with the people who see through him. Long, talky, rewarding.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/zero-2018-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/zero-2018-review/Zero is Aanand L. Rai's ambitious Hindi romance starring Shah Rukh Khan as a short-statured bachelor from Meerut, lively at first but lost in a shapeless second half.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/drive-my-car-2021-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/drive-my-car-2021-review/Ryusuke Hamaguchi's drama uses a car, a theatre rehearsal and the spaces between conversations to examine grief. A spoiler-free look at the performances, pacing and emotional demands.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/high-and-low-1963-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/high-and-low-1963-review/Akira Kurosawa turns a kidnapping into a test of responsibility, then widens the frame to an entire city. A spoiler-free review of the staging, police investigation and Toshiro Mifune's performance.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ikiru-1952-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ikiru-1952-review/Takashi Shimura's quiet performance gives Akira Kurosawa's drama its force. A spoiler-free review of bureaucratic routine, mortality and the difficult search for a useful life.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/shoplifters-2018-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/shoplifters-2018-review/Hirokazu Koreeda finds affection, dependence and moral ambiguity in a precarious Tokyo household. A spoiler-free review of its ensemble, domestic detail and refusal of easy answers.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-lunchbox-2013-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-lunchbox-2013-review/Ritesh Batra's Mumbai drama finds a connection in a mistaken lunch delivery. A spoiler-free review of Irrfan Khan and Nimrat Kaur's performances, the city's rhythms and the film's quiet reservations.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/agak-laen-menyala-pantiku-2025-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/agak-laen-menyala-pantiku-2025-review/Agak Laen: Menyala Pantiku! mengirim Bene, Boris, Jegel, dan Oki menyamar di panti jompo. Sekuel komedi Muhadkly Acho yang berani mengganti formula.Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/kang-mak-from-pee-mak-2024-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/kang-mak-from-pee-mak-2024-review/Kang Mak from Pee Mak adalah remake Indonesia atas komedi horor Thailand Pee Mak. Herwin Novianto memberinya lawakan lokal tanpa membuang sisi romansanya.Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/pabrik-gula-2025-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/pabrik-gula-2025-review/Pabrik Gula karya Awi Suryadi mengangkat utas viral SimpleMan tentang pekerja musiman di pabrik gula tua di Jawa. Horor yang kuat berkat lokasi dan suasana.Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/pengabdi-setan-2-communion-2022-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/pengabdi-setan-2-communion-2022-review/Pengabdi Setan 2: Communion memindahkan teror keluarga Rini ke rumah susun yang penuh tetangga. Sekuel Joko Anwar yang lebih besar, sesak, dan mencekam.Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/sewu-dino-2023-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/sewu-dino-2023-review/Sewu Dino karya Kimo Stamboel mengangkat utas viral SimpleMan tentang santet seribu hari. Horor Jawa yang mencekam lewat ritual, meski babak akhirnya goyah.Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-shadow-strays-2024-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-shadow-strays-2024-review/The Shadow Strays karya Timo Tjahjanto mengikuti pembunuh bayaran muda yang melawan mentornya demi seorang bocah. Laga Indonesia yang brutal dan sangat terampil.Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/vina-sebelum-7-hari-2024-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/vina-sebelum-7-hari-2024-review/Vina: Sebelum 7 Hari karya Anggy Umbara mengangkat kasus pembunuhan nyata di Cirebon lewat bingkai horor. Tegang dan efektif, tetapi caranya patut dipertanyakan.Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/agak-laen-2024-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/agak-laen-2024-review/Empat penjaga rumah hantu terjebak dalam masalah yang makin sulit disembunyikan. Ulasan tanpa spoiler tentang permainan ansambel, komedi gelap, dan ritme Agak Laen.Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/dilan-1990-2018-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/dilan-1990-2018-review/Dilan 1990 membangun romansa melalui percakapan, ingatan, dan pesona dua pemeran utamanya. Ulasan tanpa spoiler yang juga melihat sikap posesif dan kekerasan di balik nostalgia.Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/jumbo-2025-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/jumbo-2025-review/Jumbo menemukan kekuatannya dalam persahabatan, kehilangan, dan keinginan seorang anak untuk dihargai. Ulasan tanpa spoiler tentang animasi, pengisi suara, dan batas-batas cerita petualangannya.Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/because-this-is-my-first-life-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/because-this-is-my-first-life-review/Because This Is My First Life is a Korean contract-marriage rom-com that treats rent, careers and thirty-something doubt as seriously as love. It is wry and moving.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/3-body-problem-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/3-body-problem-review/3 Body Problem is Netflix's ambitious adaptation of Liu Cixin's first-contact novel: gripping as a science mystery, thinner as a drama about its young scientists.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/a-knight-of-the-seven-kingdoms-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/a-knight-of-the-seven-kingdoms-review/A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms shrinks Westeros to a hedge knight, a sharp young squire and a tourney, and it is the warmest, most humane Game of Thrones spin-off yet.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/after-life-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/after-life-review/After Life is Ricky Gervais's dark comedy about a widower who decides to say whatever he likes; it is blunt, sentimental and often genuinely moving about grief.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/alchemy-of-souls-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/alchemy-of-souls-review/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.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/all-of-us-are-dead-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/all-of-us-are-dead-review/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.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/angry-mom-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/angry-mom-review/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.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/backstreet-rookie-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/backstreet-rookie-review/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.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/bait-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/bait-review/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.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/black-mirror-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/black-mirror-review/Black Mirror is Charlie Brooker's anthology of near-future technology nightmares, uneven across seven seasons but at its best the sharpest satire on television.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/bodyguard-2018-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/bodyguard-2018-review/Bodyguard is Jed Mercurio's six-part BBC thriller about a troubled veteran guarding a hawkish Home Secretary, relentlessly tense even when its plotting strains belief.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/bojack-horseman-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/bojack-horseman-review/BoJack Horseman is Netflix's animated comedy about a washed-up sitcom star who happens to be a horse, and it grew into one of TV's sharpest studies of depression.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/boys-over-flowers-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/boys-over-flowers-review/Boys Over Flowers is the 2009 Korean campus romance that made Lee Min-ho a star, loud and gloriously melodramatic, though its bullying-to-love story has aged badly.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/bridgerton-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/bridgerton-review/Bridgerton is Netflix's glossy Regency romance, one sibling's courtship per season; four seasons in, the formula still charms even where the gossip machinery creaks.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/broadchurch-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/broadchurch-review/Broadchurch is a British crime drama about a boy's murder in a Dorset seaside town, anchored by David Tennant and Olivia Colman and strongest in its grief.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/business-proposal-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/business-proposal-review/Business Proposal is a 12-episode Korean office romcom about a fake blind date gone wrong, and it wins by embracing every cliché with total confidence.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/chicken-nugget-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/chicken-nugget-review/Chicken Nugget is a 10-episode Korean Netflix comedy in which a woman turns into a nugget, and its commitment to a ridiculous premise pays off more often than not.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/cinderella-and-the-four-knights-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/cinderella-and-the-four-knights-review/Cinderella and the Four Knights (2016) is a Korean romcom about a student living with three rich brothers, featherweight fun that Park So-dam makes worth watching.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/clarksons-farm-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/clarksons-farm-review/Clarkson's Farm follows Jeremy Clarkson trying to run a Cotswolds farm, a very funny reality series that also makes British agriculture surprisingly gripping.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/clean-with-passion-for-now-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/clean-with-passion-for-now-review/Clean with Passion for Now is a Korean romcom pairing a germ-phobic CEO with a gloriously messy employee, a sweet, silly watch that Kim Yoo-jung keeps afloat.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/cobra-kai-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/cobra-kai-review/Cobra Kai revives The Karate Kid from the loser's side, and across six seasons it turns nostalgia into a funny, surprisingly heartfelt martial-arts saga.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/dahmer-monster-the-jeffrey-dahmer-story-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/dahmer-monster-the-jeffrey-dahmer-story-review/Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story is Ryan Murphy's 10-episode Netflix true-crime drama, powerfully acted and deeply uncomfortable about who it puts on screen.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/dear-x-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/dear-x-review/Dear X is a 12-episode Korean psychological drama about a manipulative woman climbing to the top, and a bold, chilly change of direction for Kim Yoo-jung.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/death-valley-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/death-valley-review/Death Valley is a BBC comedy mystery set in Wales, pairing Timothy Spall's retired TV detective with Gwyneth Keyworth's real one, and it is cosy crime done properly.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/dept-q-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/dept-q-review/Dept. Q is Scott Frank's Edinburgh-set cold-case drama, with Matthew Goode as an abrasive detective leading a team of misfits, and it is gripping, grown-up crime TV.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/derry-girls-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/derry-girls-review/Derry Girls is Lisa McGee's sitcom about Catholic schoolgirls in 1990s Northern Ireland, riotously funny and quietly moving about growing up during the Troubles.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/descendants-of-the-sun-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/descendants-of-the-sun-review/Descendants of the Sun is the 2016 K-drama phenomenon about a soldier and a surgeon, a glossy action romance powered by Song Joong-ki and Song Hye-kyo's chemistry.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/doctor-who-2005-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/doctor-who-2005-review/Doctor Who's 2005–2021 revival is British TV's great shape-shifter: a time-travel adventure that swaps its lead, tone and team every few years and mostly thrives.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/dong-yi-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/dong-yi-review/Dong Yi, also known as Jewel in the Crown, is a 60-episode Korean court drama about a low-born maid's rise in the Joseon palace, warm and absorbing if very long.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/doom-at-your-service-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/doom-at-your-service-review/Doom at Your Service is a melancholy Korean fantasy romance about a dying editor and the embodiment of doom, lifted by Park Bo-young and Seo In-guk's chemistry.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/downton-abbey-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/downton-abbey-review/Downton Abbey is Julian Fellowes's upstairs-downstairs saga of an aristocratic Yorkshire family and their servants, the most satisfying comfort drama of its decade.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/dtf-st-louis-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/dtf-st-louis-review/DTF St. Louis is Steven Conrad's seven-part HBO dark comedy about a Midwestern love triangle and a death, sad and funny in equal parts, and oddly moving.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/emily-in-paris-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/emily-in-paris-review/Emily in Paris is Darren Star's glossy Netflix rom-com about an American marketer abroad: shallow by design, and highly effective as fashion-first comfort viewing.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ethos-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ethos-review/Ethos is Berkun Oya's eight-episode Turkish Netflix drama in which a cleaner's therapy sessions open onto a divided Istanbul, patient, humane and quietly radical.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/euphoria-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/euphoria-review/Euphoria is Sam Levinson's hyper-stylised HBO drama about teenage addiction and identity, powered by Zendaya's extraordinary lead performance and a dazzling look.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/extraordinary-attorney-woo-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/extraordinary-attorney-woo-review/Extraordinary Attorney Woo is a Korean legal dramedy about a brilliant autistic rookie lawyer, blending clever case-of-the-week puzzles with a big, tender heart.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/extraordinary-you-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/extraordinary-you-review/Extraordinary You is a clever Korean fantasy romance about a schoolgirl who discovers she is a minor character in a comic, and sets out to rewrite her own story.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/fight-for-my-way-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/fight-for-my-way-review/Fight for My Way is a scrappy Korean romantic comedy about two childhood friends near thirty who chase abandoned dreams, and discover their friendship means more.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/flower-of-evil-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/flower-of-evil-review/Flower of Evil is a gripping Korean thriller about a husband hiding a dark past from his detective wife, anchored by Lee Joon-gi and Moon Chae-won at their best.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/gangs-of-london-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/gangs-of-london-review/Gangs of London is Sky's ferocious crime saga about a power vacuum in the city's underworld, with world-class action from The Raid's Gareth Evans and a merely solid plot.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/gavin-and-stacey-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/gavin-and-stacey-review/Gavin & Stacey is the warm British sitcom about an Essex boy and a Welsh girl whose romance unites two families, and its supporting cast steals every scene.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ghosts-uk-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ghosts-uk-review/Ghosts is the BBC sitcom in which a young couple inherit a crumbling country house full of bickering spirits from across history, silly, warm and cleverly built.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ginny-and-georgia-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ginny-and-georgia-review/Ginny & Georgia is Netflix's soapy dramedy about a young mother with a dangerous past and her teenage daughter in a New England town, bingeable and surprisingly raw.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/gogglebox-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/gogglebox-review/Gogglebox is Channel 4's long-running reality show in which British households react to the week's TV, and its real subject turns out to be the viewers.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/grisse-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/grisse-review/Grisse transplants the Western to the colonial Dutch East Indies, an ambitious eight-episode HBO Asia adventure that looks superb even when its story plays safe.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/grudge-the-revolt-of-gumiho-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/grudge-the-revolt-of-gumiho-review/Grudge: The Revolt of Gumiho is a 2010 Korean folklore melodrama about a nine-tailed fox raising a human child, anchored by a young Kim Yoo-jung's striking turn.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/half-man-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/half-man-review/Half Man is Richard Gadd's bruising follow-up to Baby Reindeer, a six-episode British drama tracing two brothers' damaged bond across three decades.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/happiness-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/happiness-review/Happiness is a 12-episode Korean outbreak thriller set in a locked-down apartment tower, where the neighbours prove more dangerous than the infected.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/happy-valley-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/happy-valley-review/Happy Valley is Sally Wainwright's Yorkshire crime drama, a three-series story of a police sergeant and the man who wrecked her family, led by Sarah Lancashire.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/healer-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/healer-review/Healer is a 20-episode Korean action thriller in which a night courier and a tabloid reporter uncover a 1980s conspiracy, powered by Ji Chang-wook's dual-mode lead.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/heartstopper-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/heartstopper-review/Heartstopper is Alice Oseman's Netflix adaptation of her own graphic novels, a gentle, joyful British teen romance about two schoolboys falling for each other.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/her-private-life-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/her-private-life-review/Her Private Life is a 16-episode Korean rom-com about a museum curator secretly running an idol fansite, and it is warmer and wiser about fandom than most.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/hidden-love-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/hidden-love-review/Hidden Love is a 25-episode Chinese romance in which a girl's crush on her brother's best friend matures into adult love, lifted by Zhao Lusi and Chen Zheyuan.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/his-and-hers-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/his-and-hers-review/His & Hers is Netflix's six-episode Alice Feeney adaptation, a twisty Georgia murder thriller told by estranged spouses played by Tessa Thompson and Jon Bernthal.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/hometown-cha-cha-cha-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/hometown-cha-cha-cha-review/Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha is a 16-episode Korean seaside rom-com about a city dentist and a village handyman, with Shin Min-a and Kim Seon-ho at their most charming.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/hotel-del-luna-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/hotel-del-luna-review/Hotel Del Luna is the Hong sisters' 16-episode ghost-hotel fantasy, a glamorous, melancholy Korean romance built around a commanding IU performance.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/house-of-cards-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/house-of-cards-review/House of Cards is Netflix's landmark Washington drama about a ruthless congressman's rise, superb in its early seasons before later years lose their grip.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/i-may-destroy-you-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/i-may-destroy-you-review/I May Destroy You is Michaela Coel's daring 12-episode London drama about a writer rebuilding her life after an assault, as funny as it is unflinching.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/i-will-find-you-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/i-will-find-you-review/I Will Find You is Netflix's eight-episode Harlan Coben thriller about a jailed father who breaks out to find the son he was convicted of killing.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/iljimae-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/iljimae-review/Iljimae is a 20-episode Korean period adventure about a masked Joseon thief who robs the corrupt, carried by Lee Joon-gi's dashing double-life lead.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/im-not-a-robot-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/im-not-a-robot-review/I'm Not a Robot is a Korean sci-fi rom-com in which a woman poses as a humanoid robot for a recluse allergic to people, and it is far more tender than it sounds.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/imperfect-women-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/imperfect-women-review/Imperfect Women is an eight-episode Apple TV+ murder mystery about three lifelong friends, glossy and well cast but more shuffled than deep.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/industry-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/industry-review/Industry is HBO's London banking drama that grew from a graduate-scheme pressure cooker into a sharp, abrasive study of money, power and ambition.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/inside-no-9-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/inside-no-9-review/Inside No. 9 is Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton's darkly comic BBC anthology, a run of self-contained half-hours that almost never repeat themselves.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/itaewon-class-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/itaewon-class-review/Itaewon Class is a K-drama about an ex-convict who opens a small Seoul pub to take down a food empire, a stirring underdog story that sags in its second half.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/its-okay-to-not-be-okay-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/its-okay-to-not-be-okay-review/It's Okay to Not Be Okay is a gorgeous, emotionally serious K-drama romance between a psychiatric ward carer and a children's author who claims she cannot love.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/jury-duty-company-retreat-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/jury-duty-company-retreat-review/Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat moves the hidden-camera hoax to a fake hot-sauce firm's retreat, and it works again thanks to its kind, unsuspecting star.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/khemjira-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/khemjira-review/Khemjira is a Thai BL series that blends a family curse, Buddhist folklore and slow-burn romance, and it is one of the most ambitious and assured entries in the genre.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/killing-eve-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/killing-eve-review/Killing Eve is a stylish British spy thriller about an MI5 officer and the assassin she hunts, dazzling in its early seasons even as later ones lose their grip.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/king-the-land-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/king-the-land-review/King the Land is a glossy K-drama office romance between a hotel heir and a relentlessly smiling employee, carried by its leads rather than its thin plotting.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/kinnporsche-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/kinnporsche-review/KinnPorsche is the Thai BL mafia series that became a global event, a violent, sexy crime romance powered by Mile and Apo's chemistry, if sprawling in its plotting.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/life-on-mars-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/life-on-mars-review/Life on Mars sends a 2006 Manchester detective back to 1973, a witty, inventive BBC police drama that uses time travel to ask what good policing really means.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/line-of-duty-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/line-of-duty-review/Line of Duty is Jed Mercurio's BBC police-corruption drama, a series that turns long interrogation scenes into the most gripping set pieces on British TV.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/love-alarm-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/love-alarm-review/Love Alarm is a Korean Netflix romance about an app that reveals who likes you. Its first season is wistful and sharp; the belated second loses its grip.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/love-and-redemption-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/love-and-redemption-review/Love and Redemption is a 59-episode Chinese xianxia romance about a girl born without feelings and a cursed, masked disciple. Long, but moving once it deepens.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/love-in-the-moonlight-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/love-in-the-moonlight-review/Love in the Moonlight is a Joseon-era K-drama romance in which a young woman disguised as a eunuch grows close to the crown prince. Charming, if thin on politics.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/lovely-runner-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/lovely-runner-review/Lovely Runner is a 16-episode Korean time-slip romance in which a devoted fan tries to save her idol, carried by the irresistible chemistry of its two leads.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/luther-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/luther-review/Luther is the BBC's gothic London crime drama starring Idris Elba as a brilliant, self-destructive detective. Operatic, often lurid and hard to look away from.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/maid-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/maid-review/Maid is Netflix's 10-episode drama about a young mother escaping an abusive relationship by cleaning houses. Margaret Qualley leads a tough, humane portrait of poverty.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/man-on-fire-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/man-on-fire-review/Man on Fire is Netflix's seven-episode series version of A.J. Quinnell's bodyguard thriller. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II smoulders, but the story simmers more than it burns.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/may-queen-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/may-queen-review/May Queen is a long 2012 Korean melodrama about a resilient young woman chasing a career tied to the sea. Absorbing and sincere, if heavy on familiar twists.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/meteor-garden-2018-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/meteor-garden-2018-review/Meteor Garden (2018) is China's lavish remake of the F4 campus romance, in which a working-class student takes on four rich heirs. Sweet, funny and addictive.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/midnight-diner-tokyo-stories-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/midnight-diner-tokyo-stories-review/Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories is a gentle Japanese anthology set in a tiny all-night diner, where each dish opens a customer's story. Quiet, kind and consoling.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/mindhunter-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/mindhunter-review/Mindhunter is Netflix's chilling 1970s crime drama about FBI agents interviewing serial killers to invent profiling. Brilliant and cold, but left unfinished.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/misfits-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/misfits-review/Misfits is the anarchic British series about young offenders on community service who gain superpowers in a storm. Filthy, funny and brilliant, then uneven.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/mobland-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/mobland-review/MobLand is Paramount+'s London gangster saga with Tom Hardy as the fixer for a crime family run by Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren. Pulpy, mean and very watchable.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/moon-lovers-scarlet-heart-ryeo-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/moon-lovers-scarlet-heart-ryeo-review/Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo sends a modern woman into a Goryeo court of rival princes, and grows into one of the most wrenching K-drama romances of its era.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/moonlit-reunion-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/moonlit-reunion-review/Moonlit Reunion is a 38-episode Chinese fantasy romance pairing a half-demon guardian with a demon slayer, a costume drama built on secrets that mostly pay off.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/move-to-heaven-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/move-to-heaven-review/Move to Heaven follows two trauma cleaners sorting the belongings of people who died alone, a 10-episode Korean drama that turns each case into a small elegy.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/moving-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/moving-review/Moving is Kang Full's 20-episode Korean superhero saga about gifted teenagers and the parents hiding them, a family drama that happens to fly, heal and fight.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/mr-bates-vs-the-post-office-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/mr-bates-vs-the-post-office-review/Mr Bates vs The Post Office dramatises the Horizon scandal in four episodes, a plainly made but furious ITV drama whose impact reached far beyond television.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/mr-queen-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/mr-queen-review/Mr. Queen puts a brash modern chef inside the body of a Joseon queen, a 20-episode Korean farce with sharp palace politics and a star turn from Shin Hye-sun.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ms-rachel-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ms-rachel-review/Ms. Rachel brings Rachel Accurso's toddler songs and speech practice from YouTube to Netflix: gentle and effective for small children, but narrow as television.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/my-demon-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/my-demon-review/My Demon pairs a powerless demon with a chaebol heiress in a glossy 16-episode Korean fantasy rom-com, lifted by Kim Yoo-jung and Song Kang's easy chemistry.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/my-id-is-gangnam-beauty-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/my-id-is-gangnam-beauty-review/My ID Is Gangnam Beauty is a 16-episode Korean campus rom-com about a student judged for her plastic surgery, lighter than its themes but sharper than its logline.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/my-love-from-the-star-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/my-love-from-the-star-review/My Love from the Star pairs a 400-year-old alien with a vain top actress in a 21-episode Korean fantasy rom-com, powered by Jun Ji-hyun's fearless comic lead.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/my-name-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/my-name-review/My Name is an eight-episode Korean revenge thriller about a young woman who goes undercover in the police for a drug lord, driven by Han So-hee's ferocious lead.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/narcos-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/narcos-review/Narcos chronicles the DEA's war on Colombia's cocaine cartels across three seasons, a propulsive Netflix crime drama anchored by Wagner Moura's Pablo Escobar.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/neighbors-2026-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/neighbors-2026-review/Neighbors is a six-episode HBO documentary series about real American neighbour feuds, sharply observed and often absurd, but more exhausting than illuminating.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/never-have-i-ever-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/never-have-i-ever-review/Never Have I Ever is Mindy Kaling's four-season Netflix comedy about a grieving Indian-American teenager, funny and specific even when its love triangle loops.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/normal-people-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/normal-people-review/Normal People adapts Sally Rooney's novel into 12 intimate episodes about two young people in Ireland, lifted by Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones's remarkable pairing.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/one-cent-thief-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/one-cent-thief-review/One Cent Thief follows a debt-crushed bank clerk who skims a cent from every account, a brisk two-season Malaysian crime thriller led by a sympathetic Syafiq Kyle.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/one-piece-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/one-piece-review/Netflix's live-action ONE PIECE turns Eiichiro Oda's pirate manga into a bright, big-hearted adventure series, carried by Iñaki Godoy's irresistible Luffy.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/orange-is-the-new-black-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/orange-is-the-new-black-review/Orange Is the New Black begins with one woman's prison sentence and grows into a sprawling, funny and furious ensemble drama across seven seasons on Netflix.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/our-beloved-summer-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/our-beloved-summer-review/Our Beloved Summer reunites two exes for a sequel to the school documentary that made them viral, a gentle 16-episode Korean romance about growing up.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/outer-banks-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/outer-banks-review/Outer Banks sends a crew of working-class teens after lost gold on the North Carolina coast, a sunny Netflix adventure soap that is ridiculous, rowdy and hard to quit.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ozark-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ozark-review/Ozark is Netflix's four-season crime drama about a Chicago money manager hiding a cartel's cash in rural Missouri, lifted by Bateman, Linney and Julia Garner.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/peaky-blinders-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/peaky-blinders-review/Peaky Blinders is Steven Knight's six-season British gangster saga set in post-war Birmingham, built around Cillian Murphy's magnetic, haunted Tommy Shelby.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/pinocchio-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/pinocchio-review/Pinocchio is Park Hye-ryun's 20-episode K-drama about two rookie TV reporters, one who can't lie and one hiding who he is, and a sharp look at media responsibility.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/queen-of-tears-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/queen-of-tears-review/Queen of Tears is Park Ji-eun's 16-episode K-drama about a chaebol marriage on the brink, a lavish mix of in-law comedy, weepie and boardroom intrigue.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/reply-1988-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/reply-1988-review/Reply 1988 is a 20-episode Korean family drama about five households sharing one Seoul alley in the Olympic year, and one of the warmest coming-of-age series made.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/rivals-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/rivals-review/Rivals adapts Jilly Cooper's 1980s bonkbuster into a lavish, knowing British drama about a TV franchise war, with David Tennant as a gloriously hateful villain.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/romance-is-a-bonus-book-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/romance-is-a-bonus-book-review/Romance Is a Bonus Book is a gentle 16-episode K-drama set in a Seoul publishing house, where a divorced former copywriter restarts her career beside an old friend.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/rooster-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/rooster-review/Rooster is Bill Lawrence and Matt Tarses's HBO campus comedy, starring Steve Carell as a best-selling novelist teaching at his daughter's New England college.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/run-away-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/run-away-review/Run Away is Netflix's eight-part Harlan Coben thriller about a father hunting for his addicted daughter, anchored by James Nesbitt even as the twists pile up.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/sex-education-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/sex-education-review/Sex Education is Laurie Nunn's four-season Netflix comedy about a teenager running a secret sex-advice clinic at school; frank, funny and unusually kind to its cast.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/shadow-and-bone-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/shadow-and-bone-review/Shadow and Bone is Netflix's two-season adaptation of Leigh Bardugo's Grishaverse, pairing a chosen-one fantasy with a heist crew who nearly steal the whole show.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/skins-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/skins-review/Skins is the Bristol teen drama that recast itself every two series. Its early generations are fearless and funny; the later run is patchier and louder.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/star-city-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/star-city-review/Star City is the For All Mankind spinoff set inside the Soviet space programme after it wins the Moon race, a paranoid Cold War drama led by Rhys Ifans.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/strong-woman-do-bong-soon-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/strong-woman-do-bong-soon-review/Strong Woman Do Bong-soon is a Korean superhero rom-com about a small woman with enormous strength, lifted by Park Bo-young and a playful Park Hyung-sik.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/suspicious-partner-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/suspicious-partner-review/Suspicious Partner is a Korean legal rom-com with a serial-killer thriller hidden inside, carried by the playful chemistry of Ji Chang-wook and Nam Ji-hyun.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/sweet-home-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/sweet-home-review/Sweet Home is Netflix's Korean creature horror series about residents trapped in a crumbling apartment block. Its first season is superb; the later two sprawl.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/sweet-tooth-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/sweet-tooth-review/Sweet Tooth adapts Jeff Lemire's comic into a warm post-apocalyptic fairy tale about a half-deer boy and his gruff protector, lovely if sometimes too soft.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/tale-of-the-nine-tailed-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/tale-of-the-nine-tailed-review/Tale of the Nine-Tailed turns Korean gumiho folklore into a stylish urban fantasy romance, powered by Lee Dong-wook's charisma and Kim Bum's wounded brother.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/teach-you-a-lesson-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/teach-you-a-lesson-review/Teach You a Lesson is Netflix's Korean webtoon adaptation about a covert bureau that sends an ex-soldier into lawless schools, a pulpy thriller with real anger.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-audacity-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-audacity-review/The Audacity is Jonathan Glatzer's dark AMC satire about a Palo Alto therapist blackmailed by a tech CEO, sharply acted and bitingly funny, if relentlessly sour.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-beauty-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-beauty-review/The Beauty is Ryan Murphy's lurid body-horror satire about a sexually transmitted drug that makes people flawless, stylish and gory but short on a clear point.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-burbs-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-burbs-review/The 'Burbs reimagines the 1989 cult comedy as a Peacock mystery series about a new mother on a creepy cul-de-sac, breezy and charming thanks to Keke Palmer.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-club-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-club-review/The Club is a lavish Turkish period drama set in a 1950s Istanbul nightclub, a moving mother-daughter story that shines a rare light on the city's Jewish community.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-comeback-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-comeback-review/The Comeback follows Lisa Kudrow's fading sitcom star Valerie Cherish across three decades, an excruciatingly funny HBO mockumentary about how Hollywood uses women.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-day-of-the-jackal-2024-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-day-of-the-jackal-2024-review/The Day of the Jackal (2024) updates Frederick Forsyth's assassin thriller as a sleek 10-episode chase, anchored by a cold, precise Eddie Redmayne.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-diplomat-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-diplomat-review/The Diplomat is Debora Cahn's fast, witty Netflix political thriller, with Keri Russell as a reluctant US ambassador to the UK caught between crisis and marriage.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-dream-maker-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-dream-maker-review/The Dream Maker is a 40-episode Chinese drama about local cadres turning a beach town into a modern city, led by Zhao Liying and Huang Xiaoming. Earnest, but long.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-fall-and-rise-of-reggie-dinkins-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-fall-and-rise-of-reggie-dinkins-review/The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins is a joke-packed mockumentary sitcom pairing Tracy Morgan's disgraced football star with Daniel Radcliffe's earnest filmmaker.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-fall-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-fall-review/The Fall is Allan Cubitt's chilling Belfast serial-killer drama, with Gillian Anderson's detective hunting Jamie Dornan's killer across three tense seasons.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-gentlemen-2024-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-gentlemen-2024-review/The Gentlemen is Guy Ritchie's Netflix crime comedy in which Theo James inherits a dukedom and a cannabis empire hidden under it. Stylish, violent and very funny.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-ghost-bride-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-ghost-bride-review/The Ghost Bride is a six-episode Mandarin fantasy mystery set in 1890s Malacca, where a young woman refuses a marriage to a dead man. Gorgeous, if tonally uneven.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-gift-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-gift-review/The Gift is a Turkish Netflix mystery in which an Istanbul painter's lifelong symbol surfaces at Göbekli Tepe. Beren Saat anchors a bold but tangled mythic puzzle.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-heirs-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-heirs-review/The Heirs is Kim Eun-sook's glossy 2013 high-school chaebol romance with Lee Min-ho and Park Shin-hye, overstuffed and sagging mid-run but powered by star wattage.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-house-of-the-spirits-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-house-of-the-spirits-review/The House of the Spirits is Prime Video's Chilean, Spanish-language take on Isabel Allende's family saga: lush, angry and faithful in spirit, if hurried in places.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-immortal-ascension-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-immortal-ascension-review/The Immortal Ascension is a 30-episode xianxia drama in which Yang Yang's untalented village boy climbs toward immortality by patience and cunning rather than fate.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-inbetweeners-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-inbetweeners-review/The Inbetweeners is the crude, painfully accurate British sitcom about four suburban sixth-formers failing to be cool. Endlessly quotable, though some jokes have aged.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-it-crowd-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-it-crowd-review/The IT Crowd is Graham Linehan's Channel 4 sitcom about two tech-support misfits and their clueless boss, a tightly built farce that is still hugely funny today.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-k2-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-k2-review/The K2 is a glossy 2016 Korean action thriller: Ji Chang-wook's fugitive mercenary guards a politician's hidden daughter amid blackmail, bruising fights and romance.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-legend-of-the-blue-sea-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-legend-of-the-blue-sea-review/The Legend of the Blue Sea is a lavish Korean fantasy romance: Jun Ji-hyun's mermaid falls for Lee Min-ho's con artist in Seoul, as their Joseon past life echoes.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-mandalorian-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-mandalorian-review/The Mandalorian is Jon Favreau's Star Wars space western, pairing Pedro Pascal's bounty hunter with a mysterious child in a series that revived the franchise on TV.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-moon-embracing-the-sun-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-moon-embracing-the-sun-review/The Moon Embracing the Sun is a 2012 Joseon-era fantasy romance about a noblewoman lost to the palace who returns as a shaman. Lush, tearful and hugely popular.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-night-agent-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-night-agent-review/The Night Agent is Shawn Ryan's Netflix conspiracy thriller: an FBI agent on a quiet White House phone line takes one call and is pulled into a plot at the very top.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-night-manager-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-night-manager-review/The Night Manager turns John le Carré's novel into a glossy spy thriller, with Tom Hiddleston's hotelier going undercover among arms dealers across two seasons.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-office-uk-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-office-uk-review/The Office is Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's BBC mockumentary about a deluded Slough boss, a 12-episode sitcom that still sets the standard for cringe comedy.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-protector-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-protector-review/The Protector, Netflix's first Turkish original, makes an Istanbul antiques dealer the city's last guardian against immortals: brisk, handsome, thinly plotted fun.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-queens-gambit-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-queens-gambit-review/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.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-rings-of-power-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-rings-of-power-review/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.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-romance-of-tiger-and-rose-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-romance-of-tiger-and-rose-review/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.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-sandman-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-sandman-review/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.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-testaments-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-testaments-review/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.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-traitors-uk-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-traitors-uk-review/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.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-umbrella-academy-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-umbrella-academy-review/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.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-uncanny-counter-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-uncanny-counter-review/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.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-vampire-lestat-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-vampire-lestat-review/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.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-witcher-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-witcher-review/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.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/three-body-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/three-body-review/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.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/time-2021-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/time-2021-review/Time is Jimmy McGovern's BBC prison anthology, two short, harrowing seasons about guilt and survival behind bars, powered by outstanding performances throughout.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/top-boy-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/top-boy-review/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.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/true-beauty-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/true-beauty-review/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.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/twenty-five-twenty-one-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/twenty-five-twenty-one-review/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.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/twinkling-watermelon-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/twinkling-watermelon-review/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.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/utopia-2013-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/utopia-2013-review/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.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/w-two-worlds-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/w-two-worlds-review/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.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/weak-hero-class-1-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/weak-hero-class-1-review/Weak Hero Class 1 is a lean, brutal Korean high-school action drama about a slight top student who fights back with his brain, anchored by a superb Park Ji-hoon.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/wednesday-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/wednesday-review/Wednesday is Netflix's gothic teen mystery that sends Wednesday Addams to boarding school, owned by Jenna Ortega even when the whodunit turns routine.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/weightlifting-fairy-kim-bok-joo-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/weightlifting-fairy-kim-bok-joo-review/Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-joo is a Korean campus romance about a champion weightlifter and a struggling swimmer, disarmingly kind and funny about growing up.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/whats-wrong-with-secretary-kim-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/whats-wrong-with-secretary-kim-review/What's Wrong with Secretary Kim is a glossy Korean office romcom about a narcissistic executive and the secretary who quits, lifted by Park Seo-joon and Park Min-young.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/while-you-were-sleeping-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/while-you-were-sleeping-review/While You Were Sleeping is a Korean fantasy legal romance in which a woman and a rookie prosecutor dream of disasters before they happen, and race to prevent them.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/who-rules-the-world-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/who-rules-the-world-review/Who Rules The World is a 40-episode Chinese wuxia romance about two famed martial heroes with hidden identities, lively when it plays and slower when it plots.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/you-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/you-review/You is the darkly funny thriller in which Penn Badgley's charming bookseller stalks the women he fixates on, gripping early and increasingly outlandish over five seasons.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/young-sherlock-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/young-sherlock-review/Young Sherlock is Prime Video's brash origin story for Holmes, sending a 19-year-old Sherlock to Oxford as a murder suspect, and it is fast, irreverent fun.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/your-friends-and-neighbors-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/your-friends-and-neighbors-review/Your Friends & Neighbors is Apple TV+'s suburban noir in which Jon Hamm's broke ex-financier burgles his wealthy neighbours, a glossy satire with guilty-pleasure pull.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/jana-nayagan-2026-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/jana-nayagan-2026-review/Jana Nayagan is Vijay's farewell to cinema, a three-hour Tamil mass action drama that electrifies as a star event but sags under its political messaging.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ishq-murshid-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ishq-murshid-review/Ishq Murshid is a breezy Pakistani romance in which a wealthy young man hides his identity to win the woman he loves, lifted by Bilal Abbas Khan's charm.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/meri-zindagi-hai-tu-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/meri-zindagi-hai-tu-review/Meri Zindagi Hai Tu is a 34-episode Pakistani romance pairing Bilal Abbas Khan and Hania Aamir as lovers tested by deception. Big on chemistry, heavy on melodrama.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/agent-kim-reactivated-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/agent-kim-reactivated-review/Agent Kim Reactivated is a Korean action thriller about a quiet single father whose black-ops past resurfaces when his daughter vanishes, anchored by So Ji-sub.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/case-no-9-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/case-no-9-review/Case No. 9 is a bold Pakistani legal drama in which Saba Qamar's Sehar takes on her powerful boss, and it tackles workplace abuse and the courts with rare courage.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/chiraiya-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/chiraiya-review/Chiraiya is a six-episode Hindi family drama led by Divya Dutta, about a wife who hears a secret that forces her to question her own home, and it hits hard.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/dirilis-ertugrul-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/dirilis-ertugrul-review/Diriliş: Ertuğrul is Turkey's five-season epic about the 13th-century warrior whose tribe paved the way for the Ottomans, a sweeping global hit with huge ambition.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/eternal-love-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/eternal-love-review/Eternal Love is the Chinese fantasy romance that defined xianxia drama: a goddess and a heavenly prince whose love spans three lives, lush, tearful and addictive.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/fantastic-beasts-and-where-to-find-them-2016-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/fantastic-beasts-and-where-to-find-them-2016-review/Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them takes the Wizarding World to 1926 New York. The creature comedy charms; the franchise-building plot drags it down.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/fantastic-beasts-the-crimes-of-grindelwald-2018-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/fantastic-beasts-the-crimes-of-grindelwald-2018-review/Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald moves the Wizarding World to 1920s Paris and buries its charm under lore. Handsome, crowded and rarely magical.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/fantastic-beasts-the-secrets-of-dumbledore-2022-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/fantastic-beasts-the-secrets-of-dumbledore-2022-review/Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore steadies the series with Mads Mikkelsen's Grindelwald and a lighter tone, but the story still lacks magic or stakes.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/harry-potter-and-the-chamber-of-secrets-2002-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/harry-potter-and-the-chamber-of-secrets-2002-review/Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is Chris Columbus's longer, spookier second Hogwarts film, a mystery that adds real menace to the series' wonder.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-part-1-2010-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-part-1-2010-review/Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 takes the trio out of Hogwarts and onto the run. It is the bleakest, most intimate chapter of the series.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-part-2-2011-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-part-2-2011-review/Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 brings the series home with the Battle of Hogwarts: a lean, thrilling and moving finale to a decade of films.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/harry-potter-and-the-half-blood-prince-2009-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/harry-potter-and-the-half-blood-prince-2009-review/Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince mixes teenage romance with Voldemort's past. It is the series' most beautiful-looking film and its quietest before the war.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/harry-potter-and-the-order-of-the-phoenix-2007-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/harry-potter-and-the-order-of-the-phoenix-2007-review/Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix turns Hogwarts into a school under state control, with Imelda Staunton's Umbridge as the series' most hateful villain.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/harry-potter-and-the-prisoner-of-azkaban-2004-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/harry-potter-and-the-prisoner-of-azkaban-2004-review/Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is Alfonso Cuarón's moody, inventive third chapter, the film that turned a family franchise into real cinema.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ikatan-cinta-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ikatan-cinta-review/Ikatan Cinta is the RCTI sinetron that gripped Indonesia during the pandemic, a family melodrama powered by the Andin and Aldebaran romance, spread over 1,372 episodes.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/jaan-nisar-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/jaan-nisar-review/Jaan Nisar reunites Danish Taimoor and Hiba Bukhari in a class-crossed Pakistani love story, a huge crowd-pleaser that tests patience over 65 episodes.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/kabhi-main-kabhi-tum-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/kabhi-main-kabhi-tum-review/Kabhi Main Kabhi Tum pairs Fahad Mustafa and Hania Aamir as mismatched newlyweds in a warm, funny Pakistani drama that trades toxic tropes for real partnership.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/kaisi-teri-khudgarzi-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/kaisi-teri-khudgarzi-review/Kaisi Teri Khudgarzi is a hugely popular Pakistani drama about a tycoon's son fixated on a young woman, compelling as melodrama but troubling in how it frames love.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/khuda-aur-mohabbat-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/khuda-aur-mohabbat-review/Khuda Aur Mohabbat's third season pairs Feroze Khan and Iqra Aziz in a lavish Pakistani romance about class, faith and devotion, grand in scale and in emotion.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/kupu-malam-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/kupu-malam-review/Kupu Malam is a short, adult Indonesian drama about a student secretly working as an escort, frank and well acted even when its melodrama runs hot.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/layangan-putus-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/layangan-putus-review/Layangan Putus is the Indonesian infidelity drama that became a national talking point, uneven as television but gripping thanks to Putri Marino and Reza Rahadian.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/mere-humsafar-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/mere-humsafar-review/Mere Humsafar is a 40-episode Pakistani family drama in which Hania Aamir and Farhan Saeed play a couple facing a cruel household. Tender, gripping and heartfelt.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/mujhe-pyaar-hua-tha-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/mujhe-pyaar-hua-tha-review/Mujhe Pyaar Hua Tha is a 32-episode Pakistani love triangle about a confession that comes too late, powered by Wahaj Ali and Hania Aamir but padded by its length.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/sinf-e-aahan-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/sinf-e-aahan-review/Sinf-e-Aahan is Umera Ahmed's Urdu drama about six young women training to become Pakistan Army officers, a rousing ensemble serial that breaks the romance mould.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/tere-bin-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/tere-bin-review/Tere Bin is the Pakistani blockbuster romance of the 2020s, a 58-episode Geo drama whose enemies-to-lovers pairing of Yumna Zaidi and Wahaj Ali won a global audience.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-hobbit-an-unexpected-journey-2012-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-hobbit-an-unexpected-journey-2012-review/The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey brings Peter Jackson back to Middle-earth with a charming Martin Freeman as Bilbo, but pads a small adventure into a very long film.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-hobbit-the-battle-of-the-five-armies-2014-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-hobbit-the-battle-of-the-five-armies-2014-review/The Battle of the Five Armies ends Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy with one long digital siege, and Thorin's gold-fever aside, there is little heart left under the noise.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-smaug-2013-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-smaug-2013-review/The Desolation of Smaug is the liveliest Hobbit film, with a thrilling barrel chase and Benedict Cumberbatch's superb dragon, though padding still slows the journey.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-war-of-the-rohirrim-2024-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-war-of-the-rohirrim-2024-review/The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim is an anime prequel about a siege in Rohan, handsome in its landscapes but stiff, thin and too long for its story.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/news/barbie-2023-hit-or-flop/https://celluloidscore.com/news/barbie-2023-hit-or-flop/Was Barbie (2023) a box-office hit? Billion-dollar gross, Barbenheimer context, how critic and audience inputs line up on Celluloid, and who should skip the pink event.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTGuideNewsKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/news/dirilis-ertugrul-watch-order/https://celluloidscore.com/news/dirilis-ertugrul-watch-order/How to watch Diriliş: Ertuğrul in order — five seasons, whether you can skip, how it connects to Kuruluş: Osman, and who should not start a 150-episode epic.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTGuideNewsKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/news/dune-watch-order/https://celluloidscore.com/news/dune-watch-order/How to watch Denis Villeneuve’s Dune movies in order — release order vs books, whether you need Lynch’s Dune, Dune Messiah, and who should skip the homework.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTGuideNewsKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/news/eternal-love-watch-order/https://celluloidscore.com/news/eternal-love-watch-order/How to watch Eternal Love (Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms) and Eternal Love of Dream — release order vs story order, whether you can skip, and who should not start here.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTGuideNewsKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/news/godzilla-minus-one-post-credits/https://celluloidscore.com/news/godzilla-minus-one-post-credits/Does Godzilla Minus One have a mid-credits or post-credits scene? Spoiler-safe answer first, then what the final shot means — and who can walk out at the logos.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTGuideNewsKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/news/harry-potter-watch-order/https://celluloidscore.com/news/harry-potter-watch-order/How to watch every Harry Potter movie in order — the eight Hogwarts films, Fantastic Beasts, and where HBO’s Christmas 2026 series fits. Release order vs chronological, with Celluloid Scores.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTGuideNewsKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/news/lord-of-the-rings-watch-order/https://celluloidscore.com/news/lord-of-the-rings-watch-order/How to watch every Lord of the Rings movie in order — the Jackson trilogy, The Hobbit, War of the Rohirrim, and where The Rings of Power fits. Release vs chronological, with Celluloid Scores.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTGuideNewsKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/news/oppenheimer-hit-or-flop/https://celluloidscore.com/news/oppenheimer-hit-or-flop/Was Oppenheimer a box-office hit? IMAX premiums, global gross vs budget, awards run, how Celluloid Score matches the commercial story, and who should skip the meme.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTGuideNewsKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/news/oppenheimer-true-story/https://celluloidscore.com/news/oppenheimer-true-story/How accurate is Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer? Manhattan Project, security hearing, Jean Tatlock, Strauss — based on American Prometheus, with who should skip the fact-check.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTGuideNewsKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/news/spider-man-no-way-home-post-credits/https://celluloidscore.com/news/spider-man-no-way-home-post-credits/Does Spider-Man: No Way Home have mid-credits and post-credits scenes? What they set up, who should stay seated, and who can leave at the logos — spoilers labeled.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTGuideNewsKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/news/spider-verse-soundtrack-guide/https://celluloidscore.com/news/spider-verse-soundtrack-guide/Key tracks from Into the Spider-Verse and Across the Spider-Verse — Sunflower, the Across album, whether you need the albums before watching, and who should skip the playlist.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTGuideNewsKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/news/spider-verse-watch-order/https://celluloidscore.com/news/spider-verse-watch-order/How to watch the Spider-Verse animated films in order — Into the Spider-Verse, Across the Spider-Verse, whether you need the MCU, and what to know before Beyond.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTGuideNewsKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/news/squid-game-ending-explained/https://celluloidscore.com/news/squid-game-ending-explained/Squid Game ending explained — what Gi-hun chooses after the games, what the airport scene means, whether you need later seasons, and who should skip the spoilers.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTGuideNewsKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/news/hbo-harry-potter-series-guide/https://celluloidscore.com/news/hbo-harry-potter-series-guide/Everything confirmed about HBO’s Harry Potter TV reboot — Christmas Day 2026 premiere, Philosopher’s Stone season title, Dominic McLaughlin’s cast, Lithgow’s Dumbledore, and how it relates to the films.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTComing SoonNewsKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-designer-is-dead-2026-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-designer-is-dead-2026-review/The Designer Is Dead is Gonzalo Hergueta's documentary on Miguel Adrover, the radical New York designer who left fashion behind, and a portrait of rise and renewal.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/12-angry-men-1957-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/12-angry-men-1957-review/12 Angry Men is Sidney Lumet's 1957 jury-room drama, a lean study of prejudice and reasonable doubt that still grips like a thriller.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/12th-fail-2023-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/12th-fail-2023-review/12th Fail is Vidhu Vinod Chopra's Hindi drama about a village boy chasing India's toughest civil service exam, an underdog story that earns its tears honestly.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/2001-a-space-odyssey-1968-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/2001-a-space-odyssey-1968-review/2001: A Space Odyssey is Stanley Kubrick's vast, enigmatic science fiction landmark, still visually unmatched, though its chilly patience will not suit everyone.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/27-steps-of-may-2018-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/27-steps-of-may-2018-review/27 Steps of May is Ravi L. Bharwani's near-wordless Indonesian drama about a young woman and her father after an assault, a demanding but deeply felt film.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/28-days-later-2002-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/28-days-later-2002-review/28 Days Later is Danny Boyle's raw, fast-moving British outbreak horror, a film that reshaped the modern zombie story even if its final act divides viewers.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/a-beautiful-mind-2001-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/a-beautiful-mind-2001-review/A Beautiful Mind is Ron Howard's Oscar-winning drama about mathematician John Nash, a moving, polished biopic lifted by Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/a-quiet-place-part-ii-2021-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/a-quiet-place-part-ii-2021-review/A Quiet Place Part II is John Krasinski's tense, efficient horror sequel, taking the Abbotts beyond their farm; it is well crafted but less surprising than the original.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/a-touch-of-zen-1970-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/a-touch-of-zen-1970-review/A Touch of Zen is King Hu's three-hour Taiwanese wuxia epic, a ghost story, political thriller and Buddhist fable whose fight scenes still look astonishing.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/a-useful-ghost-2025-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/a-useful-ghost-2025-review/A Useful Ghost is a Thai comedy about a dead woman who returns inside a vacuum cleaner, a deadpan love story that turns into sharp satire about memory.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/aisha-cant-fly-away-2025-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/aisha-cant-fly-away-2025-review/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.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/alien-1979-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/alien-1979-review/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.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/all-thats-left-of-you-2025-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/all-thats-left-of-you-2025-review/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.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/american-history-x-1998-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/american-history-x-1998-review/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.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/angels-wear-white-2017-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/angels-wear-white-2017-review/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.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/animal-2023-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/animal-2023-review/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.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/anna-2019-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/anna-2019-review/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.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/anthropoid-2016-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/anthropoid-2016-review/Anthropoid dramatises the Czech resistance mission to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich in occupied Prague: a grim, tense WWII thriller with a slow first half.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/apprentice-2016-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/apprentice-2016-review/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.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/asog-2025-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/asog-2025-review/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.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/baahubali-the-beginning-2015-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/baahubali-the-beginning-2015-review/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.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/back-to-the-future-1985-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/back-to-the-future-1985-review/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.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/batman-begins-2005-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/batman-begins-2005-review/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.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/becoming-human-2025-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/becoming-human-2025-review/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.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/before-now-and-then-2022-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/before-now-and-then-2022-review/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.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/big-brother-2018-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/big-brother-2018-review/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.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/birdman-2014-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/birdman-2014-review/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.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/blade-ii-2002-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/blade-ii-2002-review/Blade II hands Wesley Snipes's vampire hunter to Guillermo del Toro, whose grotesque creature design turns a comic-book sequel into a gory, stylish monster movie.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/bol-2011-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/bol-2011-review/Bol is Shoaib Mansoor's fearless Pakistani family drama about a tyrannical father, his daughters and an intersex child, a passionate if overlong plea to be heard.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/breakfast-on-pluto-2005-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/breakfast-on-pluto-2005-review/Breakfast on Pluto is Neil Jordan's picaresque 1970s tale of Kitten, an Irish trans woman adrift in London, lifted by Cillian Murphy's fearless lead turn.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/brothers-keeper-2021-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/brothers-keeper-2021-review/Brother's Keeper is Ferit Karahan's tense Turkish drama about a sick boy trapped in a snowbound Kurdish boarding school, a lean allegory of neglect and blame.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/bunohan-2012-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/bunohan-2012-review/Bunohan is Dain Said's moody Malay-language crime fable about three brothers drawn back to their Kelantan village, strong on atmosphere if sometimes opaque.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/casablanca-1943-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/casablanca-1943-review/Casablanca is Michael Curtiz's Second World War romance about a cynical club owner and the lover who walks back into his life, and it still plays beautifully.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/champions-of-the-golden-valley-2024-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/champions-of-the-golden-valley-2024-review/Champions of the Golden Valley is Ben Sturgulewski's uplifting documentary about young Afghan skiers on homemade skis, shadowed by the country's coming collapse.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/chhaava-2025-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/chhaava-2025-review/Chhaava is Laxman Utekar's Hindi historical epic about the Maratha ruler Sambhaji's war with Aurangzeb, powered by Vicky Kaushal but loud, long and one-sided.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/city-lights-1931-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/city-lights-1931-review/City Lights is Charlie Chaplin's silent romantic comedy about the Tramp's devotion to a blind flower seller, and it is still as funny as it is heartbreaking.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/climates-2006-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/climates-2006-review/Climates is Nuri Bilge Ceylan's austere Turkish breakup drama, starring Ceylan and Ebru Ceylan as a couple drifting apart across summer, autumn and winter.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/come-drink-with-me-1966-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/come-drink-with-me-1966-review/Come Drink with Me is King Hu's influential Shaw Brothers wuxia film, with Cheng Pei-pei as a swordswoman on a rescue mission, and its best scenes still thrill.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/conclave-2024-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/conclave-2024-review/Conclave turns a papal election into a gripping locked-room thriller, with Ralph Fiennes superb as the cardinal running it. Its late turns are less convincing.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/crows-are-white-2022-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/crows-are-white-2022-review/Crows Are White follows a filmmaker shut out of a Japanese Buddhist monastery who befriends a metal-loving monk, and turns into a wry, candid study of faith.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/deadpool-2-2018-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/deadpool-2-2018-review/Deadpool 2 pits Ryan Reynolds's foul-mouthed mercenary against Josh Brolin's Cable in a sequel with bigger action, sharper stunts and an even louder mouth.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/deadpool-2016-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/deadpool-2016-review/Deadpool stars Ryan Reynolds as a scarred, wisecracking mercenary in an R-rated superhero comedy that mocks the genre while delivering a fast, violent origin story.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/django-unchained-2012-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/django-unchained-2012-review/Django Unchained is Quentin Tarantino's blood-soaked revenge western about a freed slave and a bounty hunter: provocative, wildly entertaining and superbly acted.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/drishyam-2015-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/drishyam-2015-review/Drishyam is Nishikant Kamat's Hindi remake of the Malayalam hit, a clever family thriller in which Ajay Devgn's everyman takes on Tabu's formidable police chief.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/drowning-in-holy-water-2020-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/drowning-in-holy-water-2020-review/Drowning in Holy Water is Navid Mahmoudi's compact Persian-language drama about a young Afghan couple whose hopes of reaching Europe hinge on a test of faith.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/drunken-master-1978-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/drunken-master-1978-review/Drunken Master is the 1978 Hong Kong kung fu comedy that made Jackie Chan a star. Its training scenes and fights still dazzle, even when the story wanders.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/dune-part-two-2024-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/dune-part-two-2024-review/Dune: Part Two is Denis Villeneuve's towering desert war epic, and a sharper film than Part One because it treats its chosen-one hero as a warning.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/dunki-2023-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/dunki-2023-review/Dunki pairs Rajkumar Hirani with Shah Rukh Khan for a Hindi comedy-drama about Punjabi villagers chasing England by illegal routes. Warm, sincere and uneven.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/dunkirk-2017-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/dunkirk-2017-review/Dunkirk is Christopher Nolan's taut Second World War survival film, told across land, sea and air. A sensory triumph that keeps its characters at arm's length.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/egg-2007-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/egg-2007-review/Egg is Semih Kaplanoğlu's quiet Turkish drama about a poet who returns home for his mother's funeral. Patient, beautiful and demanding, it rewards stillness.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/enter-the-dragon-1973-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/enter-the-dragon-1973-review/Enter the Dragon is the 1973 martial arts spy adventure that made Bruce Lee a worldwide legend. The plot is pulp, but his presence and fights remain electrifying.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/every-you-every-me-2024-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/every-you-every-me-2024-review/Every You Every Me is Michael Fetter Nathansky's German romance about a factory worker re-examining her marriage. Inventive, tender and a little too schematic.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-2022-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-2022-review/Everything Everywhere All at Once is the Daniels' multiverse action comedy about a laundromat owner and her family. Exhausting at times, but inventive and moving.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/exhuma-2024-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/exhuma-2024-review/Exhuma is Jang Jae-hyun's Korean occult thriller about a shaman, a geomancer and a cursed family grave. A superb first half and a star cast outweigh a messier second.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/face-off-1997-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/face-off-1997-review/Face/Off is John Woo's gloriously absurd 1997 action thriller in which John Travolta and Nicolas Cage swap faces. Operatic, overlong and hugely entertaining.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/fearless-2006-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/fearless-2006-review/Fearless is Ronny Yu's martial arts biopic of Huo Yuanjia, with Jet Li as a champion who must learn humility before he can fight for something bigger than pride.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/fight-club-1999-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/fight-club-1999-review/Fight Club is David Fincher's savage, darkly funny satire of consumer life and male rage, and more than two decades on it remains as sharp as it is misunderstood.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/firaaq-2008-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/firaaq-2008-review/Firaaq is Nandita Das's ensemble drama set a month after the 2002 Gujarat violence, tracing how ordinary people live with fear, guilt and silence over one day.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/fist-of-fury-1972-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/fist-of-fury-1972-review/Fist of Fury is the 1972 Hong Kong kung fu classic in which Bruce Lee avenges his teacher in foreign-dominated Shanghai, a crude but electrifying showcase of star power.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/five-deadly-venoms-1978-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/five-deadly-venoms-1978-review/The Five Venoms is Chang Cheh's 1978 Shaw Brothers cult favourite, a kung fu mystery built around five masked fighters, five animal styles and one question: who is who?Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/flash-point-2007-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/flash-point-2007-review/Flash Point is Wilson Yip's lean Hong Kong cop thriller starring Donnie Yen, a thin story redeemed by one of the most ferocious fight finales of its decade.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/free-fire-2017-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/free-fire-2017-review/Free Fire is Ben Wheatley's 1970s warehouse shootout comedy, a single gunfight stretched to feature length with a sharp cast, great banter and diminishing returns.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/girl-with-a-pearl-earring-2003-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/girl-with-a-pearl-earring-2003-review/Girl with a Pearl Earring imagines the story behind Vermeer's famous painting, a ravishing period drama with Scarlett Johansson that is more beautiful than gripping.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/gladiator-2000-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/gladiator-2000-review/Gladiator is Ridley Scott's thunderous Roman revenge epic, with Russell Crowe as a betrayed general turned arena fighter, and it still sets the genre's standard.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/gone-girl-2014-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/gone-girl-2014-review/Gone Girl is David Fincher's icy, darkly funny thriller about a missing wife and a husband under suspicion, a sharp satire of marriage and media starring Rosamund Pike.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/goodfellas-1990-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/goodfellas-1990-review/GoodFellas is Martin Scorsese's electric true-crime saga of Henry Hill's life in the mob, a film that sells the gangster's thrill and then sends you the bill.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/grave-of-the-fireflies-1988-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/grave-of-the-fireflies-1988-review/Grave of the Fireflies is Isao Takahata's animated war drama about two orphaned children in 1945 Kobe, and one of the most devastating films ever made.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/gully-boy-2019-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/gully-boy-2019-review/Gully Boy is Zoya Akhtar's vivid Mumbai hip-hop drama, with Ranveer Singh as a young man from Dharavi who finds his voice in rap. It is long but electric.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/harakiri-1962-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/harakiri-1962-review/Harakiri is Masaki Kobayashi's austere samurai masterpiece, in which a ronin's request to die becomes a devastating indictment of honour and hypocrisy.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/hit-man-2024-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/hit-man-2024-review/Hit Man is Richard Linklater's sly screwball comedy about a professor posing as a contract killer, a star vehicle for Glen Powell with a wobbly final act.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/house-of-hummingbird-2019-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/house-of-hummingbird-2019-review/House of Hummingbird is Kim Bora's patient coming-of-age drama about a 14-year-old girl in 1994 Seoul, observed with rare precision and tenderness.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/howl-s-moving-castle-2004-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/howl-s-moving-castle-2004-review/Howl's Moving Castle is Hayao Miyazaki's ravishing anti-war fantasy about a cursed young hatter and a vain wizard, gorgeous even when its plot comes loose.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/import-export-2007-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/import-export-2007-review/Import/Export is Ulrich Seidl's harsh, fascinating drama of two workers crossing Europe in opposite directions, compassionate and punishing in equal measure.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/in-the-heart-of-the-sea-2015-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/in-the-heart-of-the-sea-2015-review/In the Heart of the Sea is Ron Howard's whaling epic about the Essex disaster that inspired Moby-Dick, thrilling at sea but shallow in its characters.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/in-the-land-of-brothers-2024-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/in-the-land-of-brothers-2024-review/In the Land of Brothers is a quiet, affecting drama about an Afghan refugee family trying to build a life in Iran over decades, restrained almost to a fault.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/in-time-2011-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/in-time-2011-review/In Time is Andrew Niccol's sci-fi thriller about a future where time is money, a terrific premise that settles for a slick, fairly ordinary chase movie.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/inception-2010-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/inception-2010-review/Inception is Christopher Nolan's dream-heist blockbuster, an ingenious, spectacular puzzle that still sets the standard for smart summer entertainment.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/inside-a-funeral-hall-2022-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/inside-a-funeral-hall-2022-review/Inside a Funeral Hall is Lee Ho-hyun's small Korean ensemble drama about a family gathered for a funeral, a contained, wry look at grief, money and pretence.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/interstellar-2014-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/interstellar-2014-review/Interstellar is Christopher Nolan's space epic about a father leaving a dying Earth to find a new home, a vast, sincere film where physics serves emotion.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ip-man-2-2010-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ip-man-2-2010-review/Ip Man 2 moves Donnie Yen's Wing Chun master to 1950s Hong Kong, where rival schools and a British boxer test him in a rousing, if familiar, martial arts sequel.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ip-man-2008-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ip-man-2008-review/Ip Man is Wilson Yip's stirring Wing Chun biopic set in wartime Foshan, with Donnie Yen in his signature role and some of the finest kung fu of its decade.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ip-man-3-2015-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ip-man-3-2015-review/Ip Man 3 sets Donnie Yen's Wing Chun master against gangsters and a rival teacher in 1959 Hong Kong, a gentler, more domestic sequel with superb fights.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ip-man-4-the-finale-2019-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ip-man-4-the-finale-2019-review/Ip Man 4: The Finale sends Donnie Yen's wing chun master to San Francisco for a stirring farewell with superb fights, even if its villains are drawn in crayon.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/iron-monkey-1993-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/iron-monkey-1993-review/Iron Monkey is Yuen Woo-ping's nimble 1993 Hong Kong kung fu adventure, a Robin Hood tale whose inventive fights more than make up for its lurching tone.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/it-s-a-wonderful-life-1946-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/it-s-a-wonderful-life-1946-review/It's a Wonderful Life is Frank Capra's 1946 Christmas classic, and beneath the holiday glow it is a surprisingly raw drama about disappointment, duty and despair.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/jailer-2023-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/jailer-2023-review/Jailer is Nelson Dilipkumar's Tamil action comedy built around Rajinikanth as a retired jailer, a crowd-pleasing star vehicle with a sharp first half and a baggy second.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/john-wick-chapter-4-2023-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/john-wick-chapter-4-2023-review/John Wick: Chapter 4 is Chad Stahelski's nearly three-hour globe-trotting action epic, stuffed with astonishing set pieces and a scene-stealing Donnie Yen.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/jujutsu-kaisen-0-2021-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/jujutsu-kaisen-0-2021-review/Jujutsu Kaisen 0 is Sunghoo Park's anime prequel about a haunted teenager and the school that trains him to fight curses, with superb action and real emotional weight.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/k-g-f-chapter-1-2018-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/k-g-f-chapter-1-2018-review/K.G.F: Chapter 1 is Prashanth Neel's Kannada period action epic about a gangster's rise in the Kolar Gold Fields, a swaggering origin myth that made Yash a star.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/k-g-f-chapter-2-2022-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/k-g-f-chapter-2-2022-review/K.G.F: Chapter 2 is Prashanth Neel's bigger, louder conclusion to Rocky's saga, a Kannada action spectacle of rare swagger that sometimes drowns in its own noise.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/kalki-2898-ad-2024-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/kalki-2898-ad-2024-review/Kalki 2898 AD is Nag Ashwin's Telugu sci-fi epic fusing Mahabharata myth with a dystopian future, dazzling in scale and Amitabh Bachchan's presence but uneven in tone.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/khamosh-pani-2003-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/khamosh-pani-2003-review/Khamosh Pani is Sabiha Sumar's quietly powerful Pakistani drama about a widow whose village is swept up by religious fervour, led by a superb Kirron Kher.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/khuda-kay-liye-2007-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/khuda-kay-liye-2007-review/Khuda Kay Liye is Shoaib Mansoor's ambitious post-9/11 Pakistani drama about two musician brothers pulled apart by extremism and suspicion, bold if often preachy.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/kill-bill-vol-2-2004-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/kill-bill-vol-2-2004-review/Kill Bill: Vol. 2 finishes Quentin Tarantino's revenge saga as a slower, talkier and sadder film than Vol. 1, trading swordplay spectacle for character.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/klondike-2022-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/klondike-2022-review/Klondike is Maryna Er Gorbach's stark Ukrainian war drama about a pregnant woman who refuses to leave her Donbas home in July 2014. Rigorous, bleak and haunting.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/kung-fu-jungle-2014-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/kung-fu-jungle-2014-review/Kung Fu Jungle pits Donnie Yen against a killer who hunts martial-arts masters. The duels are superb; the police thriller wrapped around them is routine.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/laapataa-ladies-2024-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/laapataa-ladies-2024-review/Laapataa Ladies is Kiran Rao's gentle Hindi comedy about two veiled brides swapped on a train in rural India, and a quietly sharp satire of how women are seen.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/legend-of-the-fist-the-return-of-chen-zhen-2010-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/legend-of-the-fist-the-return-of-chen-zhen-2010-review/Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen casts Donnie Yen as Bruce Lee's famous hero, now a masked vigilante in Shanghai. Stylish fights, flimsy story.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/leon-the-professional-1994-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/leon-the-professional-1994-review/Léon: The Professional is Luc Besson's stylish New York thriller about a lonely hitman and the orphaned girl he takes in, starring Jean Reno and Natalie Portman.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/look-back-2024-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/look-back-2024-review/Look Back is Kiyotaka Oshiyama's hour-long anime about two schoolgirls bound by rivalry and a love of drawing manga, a compact, piercing film about art and loss.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/lost-embrace-2004-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/lost-embrace-2004-review/Lost Embrace is Daniel Burman's wry Buenos Aires comedy-drama about a restless young man, his family's shopping arcade and the father who walked out on him.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ma-rosa-2016-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ma-rosa-2016-review/Ma' Rosa is Brillante Mendoza's raw Manila drama about a shopkeeper arrested for dealing and the children scrambling to buy her freedom, anchored by Jaclyn Jose.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/majority-2010-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/majority-2010-review/Majority is Seren Yüce's cool, unsettling Istanbul drama about a drifting young man, his domineering father and the prejudice he inherits without noticing.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/manjummel-boys-2024-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/manjummel-boys-2024-review/Manjummel Boys is Chidambaram's Malayalam survival thriller about friends whose trip to the Guna Caves turns into a rescue, a gripping tribute to loyalty.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/merantau-2009-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/merantau-2009-review/Merantau is Gareth Evans's Indonesian martial-arts drama about a young silat fighter's rite of passage in Jakarta, the rough first draft of The Raid's brilliance.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/modern-times-1936-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/modern-times-1936-review/Modern Times is Charlie Chaplin's Depression-era comedy in which the Tramp battles factory machines, hunger and the law, and 90 years on it is still hilarious.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/monisme-2023-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/monisme-2023-review/Monisme is Riar Rizaldi's experimental hybrid of documentary and fiction about life on Mount Merapi, a hypnotic, demanding film that rewards patient viewers.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/moonlight-2016-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/moonlight-2016-review/Moonlight is Barry Jenkins's Best Picture-winning drama about a young Black man in Miami, told in three chapters: beautifully made, if at times too withholding.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/mulan-2020-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/mulan-2020-review/Mulan is Niki Caro's live-action remake of Disney's animated classic, reworked as a songless martial-arts epic. It looks spectacular but feels oddly remote.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/munjya-2024-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/munjya-2024-review/Munjya is Aditya Sarpotdar's Hindi horror-comedy about a lovesick spirit from Konkan folklore, a lively, funny ride held back by a formulaic second half.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/mustang-2015-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/mustang-2015-review/Mustang is Deniz Gamze Ergüven's Turkish-language debut about five orphaned sisters locked away ahead of arranged marriages: vivid, angry and full of life.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/my-neighbor-totoro-1988-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/my-neighbor-totoro-1988-review/My Neighbor Totoro is Hayao Miyazaki's gentle Studio Ghibli fantasy about two sisters, a country house and a giant forest spirit, a film of pure, unhurried wonder.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/nightcrawler-2014-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/nightcrawler-2014-review/Nightcrawler is Dan Gilroy's queasy Los Angeles thriller about a ruthless freelance crime cameraman, driven by one of Jake Gyllenhaal's most unsettling performances.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/no-more-history-without-us-2024-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/no-more-history-without-us-2024-review/No More History Without Us is Priscilla Brasil's angry, essayistic documentary about how the Amazon was invented as an empty Eden, told by filmmakers from the region.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/once-upon-a-time-in-anatolia-2011-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/once-upon-a-time-in-anatolia-2011-review/Once Upon a Time in Anatolia is Nuri Bilge Ceylan's hypnotic crime drama about a night-long search for a body, where small talk slowly exposes deeper truths.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/once-upon-a-time-in-china-1991-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/once-upon-a-time-in-china-1991-review/Once Upon a Time in China is Tsui Hark's sweeping kung fu epic, with Jet Li as folk hero Wong Fei-hung facing foreign powers in 19th-century Canton.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/once-upon-a-time-in-the-west-1968-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/once-upon-a-time-in-the-west-1968-review/Once Upon a Time in the West is Sergio Leone's monumental western about a widow, a railroad and three gunmen, an operatic farewell to the frontier myth.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/one-flew-over-the-cuckoo-s-nest-1975-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/one-flew-over-the-cuckoo-s-nest-1975-review/One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is Miloš Forman's funny, furious drama about a rebel in a psychiatric ward, with Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher at their peak.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ong-bak-2003-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ong-bak-2003-review/Ong-Bak is the Thai martial arts film that made Tony Jaa a star, a thin revenge story carried by bone-crunching Muay Thai stunts performed for real.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/police-story-1985-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/police-story-1985-review/Police Story is Jackie Chan's 1985 Hong Kong cop thriller, a thin story wrapped around some of the most dangerous and thrilling practical stunts ever filmed.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ponniyin-selvan-part-i-2022-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ponniyin-selvan-part-i-2022-review/Ponniyin Selvan: Part I is Mani Ratnam's lavish Tamil adaptation of Kalki's Chola novel, a sprawling tale of court conspiracy that favours intrigue over battle.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ponniyin-selvan-part-ii-2023-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ponniyin-selvan-part-ii-2023-review/Ponniyin Selvan: Part II completes Mani Ratnam's Tamil Chola epic, trading some of Part One's playful intrigue for doomed romance, grief and a war for the throne.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/pop-aye-2017-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/pop-aye-2017-review/Pop Aye is Kirsten Tan's gentle Thai-language road movie about a burnt-out Bangkok architect walking his childhood elephant home, wry and melancholy in equal parts.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/porcelain-war-2024-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/porcelain-war-2024-review/Porcelain War is an Oscar-nominated documentary about Ukrainian artists who stay to defend their home, making delicate porcelain while learning to fight a war.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/premalu-2024-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/premalu-2024-review/Premalu is Girish A. D.'s breezy Malayalam romantic comedy about a lovestruck graduate chasing a confident IT professional in Hyderabad, with laughs to spare.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/project-a-1983-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/project-a-1983-review/Project A is Jackie Chan's period action comedy about a coast guard officer fighting pirates in colonial Hong Kong, a loose story built around dazzling stunt work.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/psycho-1960-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/psycho-1960-review/Psycho is Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 thriller about a fleeing office worker and a lonely motel keeper, a film that rewired horror and still plays with its audience's nerves.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/raging-fire-2021-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/raging-fire-2021-review/Raging Fire pits Donnie Yen's upright cop against Nicholas Tse's vengeful former protégé in Benny Chan's final film, a Hong Kong action thriller built on set pieces.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/red-eye-2005-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/red-eye-2005-review/Red Eye traps Rachel McAdams beside a menacing Cillian Murphy on an overnight flight, and Wes Craven's 85-minute thriller is tense until it touches down.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/rocky-aur-rani-kii-prem-kahaani-2023-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/rocky-aur-rani-kii-prem-kahaani-2023-review/Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani is Karan Johar's lavish Hindi family romance, pairing Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt as lovers from clashing Delhi households.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/sakra-2023-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/sakra-2023-review/Sakra stars and is co-directed by Donnie Yen as Qiao Feng, the exiled hero of Jin Yong's wuxia saga, in a film with fierce fights and a badly compressed story.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/salaar-part-1-ceasefire-2023-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/salaar-part-1-ceasefire-2023-review/Salaar: Part 1 - Ceasefire is Prashanth Neel's brutal Telugu power-struggle epic starring Prabhas, strongest in its action and weakest in its crowded politics.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/saving-private-ryan-1998-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/saving-private-ryan-1998-review/Saving Private Ryan is Steven Spielberg's Second World War epic, a harrowing rescue-mission drama whose Omaha Beach landing changed how cinema shows combat.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/scala-2022-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/scala-2022-review/Scala is Ananta Thitanat's short Thai documentary about the final days of Bangkok's beloved Scala cinema, a tender elegy told through the staff who return to close it.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/schindler-s-list-1993-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/schindler-s-list-1993-review/Schindler's List is Steven Spielberg's black-and-white Holocaust drama about a German industrialist who saved his Jewish workers, still his most searing film.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/se7en-1995-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/se7en-1995-review/Se7en is David Fincher's rain-soaked serial-killer thriller, a bleak, meticulous procedural in which Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt hunt a murderer obsessed with sin.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/seeking-haven-for-mr-rambo-2025-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/seeking-haven-for-mr-rambo-2025-review/Seeking Haven for Mr. Rambo is Khaled Mansour's Egyptian drama about a quiet man crossing Cairo to protect his dog, a modest film with a big heart and a sharp eye.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/shaolin-soccer-2001-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/shaolin-soccer-2001-review/Shaolin Soccer is Stephen Chow's cartoonish Hong Kong sports comedy about kung fu brothers turned footballers, a joyful, ramshackle warm-up for Kung Fu Hustle.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/shuttle-life-2017-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/shuttle-life-2017-review/Shuttle Life is Tan Seng Kiat's raw Malaysian drama about a struggling family in Kuala Lumpur, a bleak but compassionate study of poverty, grief and mental illness.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/singing-in-graveyards-2016-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/singing-in-graveyards-2016-review/Singing in Graveyards is Bradley Liew's dreamlike drama about an ageing rock impersonator in the Philippines, a slow, melancholy film built around Pepe Smith.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/small-things-like-these-2024-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/small-things-like-these-2024-review/Small Things Like These is Tim Mielants's restrained Irish drama, with Cillian Murphy as a 1985 coal merchant who glimpses the cruelty of a local convent.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/snake-in-the-eagles-shadow-1978-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/snake-in-the-eagles-shadow-1978-review/Snake in the Eagle's Shadow is Yuen Woo-ping's 1978 kung fu comedy with Jackie Chan, a scrappy but lively blueprint for the training-film formula they soon refined.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/solo-solitude-2016-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/solo-solitude-2016-review/Solo, Solitude is Yosep Anggi Noen's hushed drama about poet Wiji Thukul in hiding from the Suharto regime, a film about political fear told through silence.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/spider-man-across-the-spider-verse-2023-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/spider-man-across-the-spider-verse-2023-review/Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse sends Miles Morales through a multiverse of clashing art styles, a dazzling animated sequel that is also half of a bigger story.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/spl-kill-zone-2005-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/spl-kill-zone-2005-review/SPL: Kill Zone is Wilson Yip's brutal Hong Kong cop thriller, with Donnie Yen, Simon Yam and a menacing Sammo Hung in fights that outclass its melodramatic plotting.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/sri-asih-2022-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/sri-asih-2022-review/Sri Asih is Upi Avianto's Indonesian superhero film, reviving a classic comic heroine with Pevita Pearce in the lead, strong fights and some growing pains.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/steve-2025-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/steve-2025-review/Steve is Tim Mielants's one-day drama about a reform-school head teacher, with Cillian Murphy superb at the centre of a film that is sometimes as chaotic as its setting.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/stree-2-2024-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/stree-2-2024-review/Stree 2 sends Rajkummar Rao and friends back to Chanderi to face a headless new menace, a crowd-pleasing Hindi horror-comedy that trades some bite for bigger laughs.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/sunshine-2007-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/sunshine-2007-review/Sunshine is Danny Boyle's space thriller about a crew carrying a bomb to reignite the Sun, a visually overwhelming film whose final act divides audiences.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/suzume-2022-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/suzume-2022-review/Suzume is Makoto Shinkai's anime road movie about a teenager sealing magical doors across Japan, a gorgeous fantasy that turns disaster memory into adventure.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/swimming-pool-2003-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/swimming-pool-2003-review/Swimming Pool is François Ozon's teasing psychological thriller, with Charlotte Rampling as a crime writer whose French retreat is disrupted by a reckless young guest.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/syndromes-and-a-century-2006-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/syndromes-and-a-century-2006-review/Syndromes and a Century is Apichatpong Weerasethakul's tender, mysterious film inspired by his doctor parents, a Thai hospital story told twice in two different worlds.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/taste-2021-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/taste-2021-review/Taste is Lê Bảo's radical Vietnamese art film about a Nigerian footballer and four women who retreat into an old house, a striking but demanding sensory experiment.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/terminator-2-judgment-day-1991-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/terminator-2-judgment-day-1991-review/Terminator 2: Judgment Day is James Cameron's landmark sci-fi action sequel, a relentless chase with groundbreaking effects and a surprising emotional core.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-36th-chamber-of-shaolin-1978-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-36th-chamber-of-shaolin-1978-review/The 36th Chamber of Shaolin is Lau Kar-leung's kung fu classic, a revenge story that turns the training itself into the thrilling main event.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-big-boss-1971-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-big-boss-1971-review/The Big Boss is Bruce Lee's first Hong Kong leading role, a rough, low-budget revenge thriller set in Thailand that comes alive whenever he finally fights.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-boy-and-the-heron-2023-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-boy-and-the-heron-2023-review/The Boy and the Heron is Hayao Miyazaki's wartime fantasy about a grieving boy, a gorgeous and deeply personal film that is harder to follow than his classics.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-breakfast-club-1985-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-breakfast-club-1985-review/The Breakfast Club is John Hughes's Saturday-detention comedy about five teenagers and their labels, still sharp and funny even where its attitudes have dated.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-departed-2006-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-departed-2006-review/The Departed is Martin Scorsese's Boston remake of Infernal Affairs, a profane, propulsive crime thriller about two moles on opposite sides of the law.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-empire-strikes-back-1980-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-empire-strikes-back-1980-review/The Empire Strikes Back is the darker, richer second Star Wars film, a space adventure that splits its heroes apart and gives the saga its emotional depth.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-fall-guy-2024-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-fall-guy-2024-review/The Fall Guy stars Ryan Gosling as a stuntman caught up in a missing-star mystery, a charming action romcom and a warm tribute to stunt work, if a baggy one.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-forsaken-land-2005-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-forsaken-land-2005-review/The Forsaken Land is Vimukthi Jayasundara's austere Sri Lankan drama about a home guard on a barren frontier, a haunting portrait of lives stalled by war.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-garfield-movie-2024-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-garfield-movie-2024-review/The Garfield Movie sends the comic strip's laziest cat on a frantic heist caper: a bright, good-natured family cartoon that children will enjoy far more than adults.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-general-1926-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-general-1926-review/The General is Buster Keaton's silent Civil War train-chase comedy, a feat of stunt engineering and deadpan timing that still outpaces most modern action films.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-godfather-part-ii-1974-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-godfather-part-ii-1974-review/The Godfather Part II sets young Vito Corleone's rise against Michael's cold grip on power, a colder, more ambitious sequel that rivals and deepens the 1972 original.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-1966-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-1966-review/The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is Sergio Leone's sprawling 1966 spaghetti western about three gunmen chasing buried gold through a Civil War landscape of ruin.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-gospel-of-the-beast-2023-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-gospel-of-the-beast-2023-review/The Gospel of the Beast is Sheron R. Dayoc's bleak Filipino coming-of-age drama about a teenager undone by one terrible accident, tough to watch but hard to shake.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-grandmaster-2013-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-grandmaster-2013-review/The Grandmaster is Wong Kar-wai's rain-soaked martial arts elegy about Ip Man and a lost era of kung fu: ravishing to look at, frustrating as a story.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-green-mile-1999-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-green-mile-1999-review/The Green Mile is Frank Darabont's Stephen King prison drama about death-row guards and a gentle giant with a gift, a long, sentimental film that earns its tears.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-incredibles-2004-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-incredibles-2004-review/The Incredibles is Brad Bird's Pixar superhero comedy about a family of retired heroes stuck in suburbia, a sharp, stylish action film that works for all ages.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-lamb-2014-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-lamb-2014-review/The Lamb is Kutluğ Ataman's wry Turkish village drama about a poor family, a circumcision feast and a boy's terror, small in scale but sharp about pride and poverty.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-legend-of-drunken-master-1994-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-legend-of-drunken-master-1994-review/The Legend of Drunken Master is Jackie Chan's riotous kung fu comedy about a young Wong Fei-hung and his drunken boxing, home to some of the finest fights ever filmed.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-lion-king-1994-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-lion-king-1994-review/The Lion King is Disney's hand-drawn coming-of-age epic about a lion cub and a scheming uncle, a family film with real grief, great songs and a superb villain.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-fellowship-of-the-ring-2001-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-fellowship-of-the-ring-2001-review/The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is Peter Jackson's grand, tactile opening to the Tolkien trilogy, a fantasy quest that still sets the standard.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-return-of-the-king-2003-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-return-of-the-king-2003-review/The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King closes Peter Jackson's trilogy with vast battles and real emotional weight, a finale that earns its three-plus hours.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-two-towers-2002-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-two-towers-2002-review/The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers splits the fellowship across Middle-earth and gives the trilogy its war film, its Gollum and its defining siege at Helm's Deep.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-man-from-nowhere-2010-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-man-from-nowhere-2010-review/The Man from Nowhere is a brutal Korean rescue thriller starring Won Bin as a withdrawn pawnbroker, with ferocious fights and a surprisingly tender centre.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-night-comes-for-us-2018-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-night-comes-for-us-2018-review/The Night Comes for Us is Timo Tjahjanto's ultra-violent Indonesian gangster thriller, with astonishing fight choreography and a story as thin as its gore is thick.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-one-armed-swordsman-1967-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-one-armed-swordsman-1967-review/The One-Armed Swordsman is Chang Cheh's landmark Shaw Brothers wuxia about a maimed fighter, a raw, influential film whose melodrama and fights now feel dated.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-pianist-2002-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-pianist-2002-review/The Pianist is Roman Polanski's Holocaust drama about Władysław Szpilman's survival in occupied Warsaw, an austere, harrowing film anchored by Adrien Brody.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-prestige-2006-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-prestige-2006-review/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.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-prosecutor-2024-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-prosecutor-2024-review/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.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-raid-2-2014-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-raid-2-2014-review/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.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-seen-and-unseen-2017-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-seen-and-unseen-2017-review/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.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-silence-of-the-lambs-1991-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-silence-of-the-lambs-1991-review/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.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-truman-show-1998-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-truman-show-1998-review/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.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-usual-suspects-1995-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-usual-suspects-1995-review/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.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-villainess-2017-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-villainess-2017-review/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.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/three-monkeys-2008-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/three-monkeys-2008-review/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.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/tom-yum-goong-2005-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/tom-yum-goong-2005-review/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.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/toss-up-2004-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/toss-up-2004-review/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.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/transcendence-2014-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/transcendence-2014-review/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.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/tron-legacy-2010-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/tron-legacy-2010-review/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.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/tropical-malady-2004-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/tropical-malady-2004-review/Tropical Malady is Apichatpong Weerasethakul's two-part Thai fable, a tender gay romance that becomes a hypnotic jungle legend; mesmerising, if deeply elusive.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/tumbbad-2018-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/tumbbad-2018-review/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.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/uncut-gems-2019-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/uncut-gems-2019-review/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.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/uzak-2002-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/uzak-2002-review/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.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/vikram-2022-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/vikram-2022-review/Vikram is Lokesh Kanagaraj's sprawling Tamil action thriller starring Kamal Haasan, Fahadh Faasil and Vijay Sethupathi, and a thunderous crowd-pleaser at heart.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/way-of-the-dragon-1972-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/way-of-the-dragon-1972-review/The Way of the Dragon sends Bruce Lee to Rome to protect a family restaurant from gangsters; clumsy comedy gives way to some of the finest fights ever filmed.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/wheels-on-meals-1984-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/wheels-on-meals-1984-review/Wheels on Meals reunites Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao for a Barcelona-set action comedy whose loose plot is redeemed by some of the finest fights of the 1980s.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/whiplash-2014-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/whiplash-2014-review/Whiplash is Damien Chazelle's ferocious jazz drama about a young drummer and a tyrannical teacher, cut with the tension of a thriller and powered by J.K. Simmons.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/women-talking-2022-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/women-talking-2022-review/Women Talking is Sarah Polley's Oscar-winning drama about women in a remote religious colony deciding their future after years of abuse. Powerful, if stagey.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/zinda-bhaag-2013-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/zinda-bhaag-2013-review/Zinda Bhaag is a lively, bittersweet Punjabi-language drama about three young Lahore men desperate to escape abroad, and a landmark for new Pakistani cinema.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/news/animal-ending-explained/https://celluloidscore.com/news/animal-ending-explained/Full spoilers for Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s Animal — what Ranvijay chooses, how the family war ends, and what the mid-credits scene sets up. Hindi event-cinema context on Celluloid.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTGuideNewsKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/news/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-ending-explained/https://celluloidscore.com/news/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-ending-explained/Full spoilers for EEAAO — what Jobu Tupaki’s bagel means, how Evelyn wins with kindness, and why the rock universe matters. Oscar Best Picture context on Celluloid.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTGuideNewsKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/news/fight-club-ending-explained/https://celluloidscore.com/news/fight-club-ending-explained/Full spoilers for David Fincher’s Fight Club — who Tyler is, what the narrator does in the finale, and what the collapsing skyline means. Celluloid context.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTGuideNewsKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/news/inception-ending-explained/https://celluloidscore.com/news/inception-ending-explained/Full spoilers for Christopher Nolan’s Inception — what the spinning top means, whether Cobb is still dreaming, and why the cut to black is the point. Celluloid score context.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTGuideNewsKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/news/interstellar-ending-explained/https://celluloidscore.com/news/interstellar-ending-explained/Full spoilers for Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar — how Cooper sends the data, what the tesseract is, and why Brand’s planet is the real ending. Celluloid context.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTGuideNewsKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/detective-conan-fallen-angel-2026-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/detective-conan-fallen-angel-2026-review/Detective Conan: Fallen Angel of the Highway, the 29th Conan film, pairs a clue-driven highway mystery with some of the series' most thrilling motorcycle action.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/hope-2026-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/hope-2026-review/Hope is Na Hong-jin's first film since The Wailing, a creature epic set near the DMZ whose ferocious first hour outclasses its bloated, over-explained second half.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/motor-city-2026-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/motor-city-2026-review/Motor City is a near-wordless 1970s Detroit revenge thriller built on Alan Ritchson's physicality and a rock-and-disco soundtrack. Stylish, lean, and thin on story.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/abang-adik-2023-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/abang-adik-2023-review/Abang Adik is Jin Ong's Malaysian drama about two undocumented brothers in Kuala Lumpur, a devastating, superbly acted portrait of love on society's margins.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/autobiography-2022-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/autobiography-2022-review/Makbul Mubarak's Autobiography is a chilling Indonesian thriller about a young man in the service of a retired general: a slow-burn study of power and complicity.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/bad-genius-2017-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/bad-genius-2017-review/Bad Genius is Nattawut Poonpiriya's Thai thriller about a gifted student who turns exam cheating into a business, staged with all the tension of a great heist film.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/blossoms-shanghai-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/blossoms-shanghai-review/Blossoms Shanghai is Wong Kar-wai's first TV series, a lush 30-episode saga of money, love and memory in 1990s Shanghai, anchored by a magnetic Hu Ge.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/cake-2018-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/cake-2018-review/Cake is Asim Abbasi's Karachi family drama about siblings reunited to care for ageing parents, led by superb work from Aamina Sheikh and Sanam Saeed.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/kampung-people-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/kampung-people-review/Kampung People is a warm Malaysian comedy about a city family hidden in a village under witness protection, gentle and specific even when the jokes run thin.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/laal-kabootar-2019-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/laal-kabootar-2019-review/Laal Kabootar is Kamal Khan's stylish Karachi crime thriller, in which a taxi driver and a grieving widow collide in the city's underworld. Confident, gritty noir.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/light-the-night-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/light-the-night-review/Light the Night is Netflix's glossy Taiwanese period mystery about women running a hostess bar in 1980s Taipei, rich in atmosphere but heavier on melodrama as it goes.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/marry-my-dead-body-2023-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/marry-my-dead-body-2023-review/Marry My Dead Body is Cheng Wei-hao's Taiwanese ghost comedy in which a homophobic cop is forced to marry a gay man's spirit, a messy, big-hearted genre mash-up.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/minning-town-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/minning-town-review/Minning Town is a 2021 Chinese drama about Ningxia villagers resettled in the desert with help from Fujian. A state-backed story told with real human warmth.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/nur-2018-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/nur-2018-review/Nur is a two-season Malaysian romance about faith, redemption and community judgement, a compulsive and controversial melodrama that made its leads household names.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/parizaad-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/parizaad-review/Parizaad is a Pakistani Urdu drama about a poetic outsider judged by his looks and his class, turned into something soulful by Ahmed Ali Akbar's lead performance.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/rewind-2023-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/rewind-2023-review/Rewind is a Filipino time-travel melodrama in which a grieving husband gets a chance to relive the day he lost his family, anchored by Dingdong Dantes and Marian Rivera.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/sheriff-narko-integriti-2024-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/sheriff-narko-integriti-2024-review/Sheriff: Narko Integriti is Syafiq Yusof's loud, crowd-pleasing Malaysian narcotics thriller, a 2024 box-office hit that trades subtlety for scale and momentum.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-medium-2021-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-medium-2021-review/The Medium is a Thai-Korean mockumentary about a shaman family in rural Isan, a slow-burning folk horror that turns genuinely frightening before an extreme finale.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/tira-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/tira-review/Tira is an eight-episode Indonesian superhero series from the Bumilangit universe, an ambitious streaming bet on local comics whose effects and pacing often wobble.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/2gether-the-series-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/2gether-the-series-review/2gether: The Series is a 13-episode Thai BL rom-com about a fake campus relationship, and its sincerity and lead chemistry outweigh a very familiar formula.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/alif-2019-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/alif-2019-review/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.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/better-days-2019-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/better-days-2019-review/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.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/can-this-love-be-translated-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/can-this-love-be-translated-review/Can This Love Be Translated? is the Hong sisters' globe-trotting Netflix romcom about an interpreter and a star, lovely when its leads share a frame, baggy elsewhere.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/cigarette-girl-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/cigarette-girl-review/Cigarette Girl (Gadis Kretek) is a five-episode Indonesian period romance set in the 1960s clove cigarette trade, gorgeously directed and led by Dian Sastrowardoyo.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/demon-slayer-mugen-train-2020-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/demon-slayer-mugen-train-2020-review/Demon Slayer: Mugen Train is the record-breaking anime feature that sends Tanjiro and a legendary swordsman onto a haunted train, and makes grief its real enemy.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/detective-chinatown-1900-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/detective-chinatown-1900-review/Detective Chinatown 1900 moves the Chinese comedy franchise to Exclusion-era San Francisco, with grand production design sunk by slapstick, bloat and a weak mystery.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/dying-to-survive-2018-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/dying-to-survive-2018-review/Dying to Survive is Wen Muye's Chinese comedy-drama about a shopkeeper smuggling cheap leukaemia drugs. It is funny, furious and deeply moving.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ehd-e-wafa-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ehd-e-wafa-review/Ehd-e-Wafa is a Pakistani Urdu drama about four friends whose lives split between the army and civilian ambition, a polished ensemble serial built on loyalty.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/girl-from-nowhere-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/girl-from-nowhere-review/Girl from Nowhere is a dark Thai anthology in which a mysterious transfer student exposes the cruelty and hypocrisy of elite schools, one grim moral fable at a time.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/goblin-2016-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/goblin-2016-review/Goblin is Kim Eun-sook's landmark Korean fantasy romance about a cursed immortal, his destined bride and a lonely grim reaper, funny, lavish and deeply moving.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/guang-2018-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/guang-2018-review/Guang is Quek Shio-chuan's gentle Malaysian drama about an autistic young man with a gift for music, and a rare film about autism that avoids easy sentiment.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/hello-love-goodbye-2019-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/hello-love-goodbye-2019-review/Hello, Love, Goodbye is Cathy Garcia-Sampana's Hong Kong romance about two Filipino migrant workers, lifted above formula by Kathryn Bernardo and Alden Richards.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/hospital-playlist-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/hospital-playlist-review/Hospital Playlist is Shin Won-ho's two-season Korean medical drama about five doctors who have been friends since medical school, and it is comfort TV at its finest.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/how-to-make-millions-before-grandma-dies-2024-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/how-to-make-millions-before-grandma-dies-2024-review/How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies is Pat Boonnitipat's Thai family drama about a grandson chasing an inheritance, and a quietly devastating one.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/hubungi-agen-gue-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/hubungi-agen-gue-review/Hubungi Agen Gue is the Indonesian remake of Call My Agent, a glossy eight-episode satire of Jakarta show business that works best when it leans into local chaos.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/humsafar-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/humsafar-review/Humsafar is the landmark 2011 Pakistani drama about an arranged marriage torn apart by family scheming, with Fawad Khan and Mahira Khan's defining on-screen pairing.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/hunger-2023-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/hunger-2023-review/Hunger is a sleek Thai kitchen drama about a young street-food cook drawn into Bangkok's elite catering world. Striking to look at, heavy-handed in its message.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/impetigore-2019-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/impetigore-2019-review/Impetigore is Joko Anwar's Indonesian folk horror about a young woman who returns to her birth village to claim an inheritance, beautiful, cruel and gripping.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/incantation-2022-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/incantation-2022-review/Incantation is Kevin Ko's Taiwanese found-footage horror about a mother, her daughter and a broken religious taboo, rough in places but genuinely unnerving.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/joko-anwars-nightmares-and-daydreams-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/joko-anwars-nightmares-and-daydreams-review/Joko Anwar's Nightmares and Daydreams is a seven-part Indonesian horror anthology on Netflix, uneven by episode but ambitious, striking and full of social anger.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/joyland-2022-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/joyland-2022-review/Joyland is Saim Sadiq's Cannes prize-winning Pakistani drama about a married man who falls for a trans dancer, a tender, devastating portrait of a family bound by duty.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/kamar-kamariah-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/kamar-kamariah-review/Kamar Kamariah is a 13-episode Malaysian domestic thriller about a woman trapped in an outwardly pious marriage, tense, brave and led by committed performances.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/kamli-2022-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/kamli-2022-review/Kamli is Sarmad Khoosat's bold Pakistani drama about a woman's repressed desire and religious guilt, led by a fearless Saba Qamar and as divisive as it is striking.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/mai-2024-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/mai-2024-review/Mai is Trấn Thành's record-breaking Vietnamese romantic drama about a Ho Chi Minh City masseuse and an unlikely love, a big-hearted melodrama that aims for tears.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/mat-kilau-2022-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/mat-kilau-2022-review/Mat Kilau is Syamsul Yusof's Malaysian silat epic about Malay warriors resisting British rule in 1890s Pahang, a rousing, record-breaking action spectacle.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/mere-paas-tum-ho-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/mere-paas-tum-ho-review/Mere Paas Tum Ho is the 2019 Pakistani drama about a betrayed husband that became a national event. Gripping, grandly acted, and troubling in its moral lens.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/mirzapur-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/mirzapur-review/Mirzapur is Prime Video's violent Hindi crime saga about a war for control of an Uttar Pradesh town. Pankaj Tripathi dominates; later seasons lose some bite.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/munafik-2-2018-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/munafik-2-2018-review/Munafik 2 is Syamsul Yusof's Malaysian horror sequel, an openly religious ghost story about faith and hypocrisy that scares effectively despite its melodrama.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ne-zha-2-2025-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ne-zha-2-2025-review/Ne Zha 2 is Jiaozi's record-breaking Chinese animated sequel, a vast, funny and thunderous myth about two outcast boys taking on heaven and the dragon clans.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ne-zha-2019-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ne-zha-2019-review/Ne Zha is Jiaozi's rowdy, big-hearted Chinese animated reinvention of a classic myth, in which a boy branded a demon at birth sets out to prove fate wrong.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/one-two-jaga-2018-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/one-two-jaga-2018-review/One Two Jaga is Namron's tough Malaysian crime drama about police corruption and exploited migrant workers, an angry, compact portrait of a system on the take.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/project-high-council-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/project-high-council-review/Project: High Council is a Malaysian boarding-school thriller about a secret student council ruling through bullying and blackmail; angry and bold, but uneven.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/raqeeb-se-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/raqeeb-se-review/Raqeeb Se is Kashif Nisar's Hum TV drama about a woman who flees her marriage to the home of a man she once loved; a literate, sharply acted Pakistani serial.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/roh-2019-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/roh-2019-review/Roh is Emir Ezwan's spare Malaysian folk horror about a jungle family and a mysterious child, a slow-burning film of whispered omens and mounting dread.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/rurouni-kenshin-kyoto-inferno-2014-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/rurouni-kenshin-kyoto-inferno-2014-review/Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno sends Takeru Satoh's wandering swordsman to stop Tatsuya Fujiwara's Shishio, a bigger, darker Japanese action sequel.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/rurouni-kenshin-origins-2012-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/rurouni-kenshin-origins-2012-review/Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins turns Nobuhiro Watsuki's manga into a fast, heartfelt Meiji-era action film, with Takeru Satoh as an assassin who has sworn off killing.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/rurouni-kenshin-the-beginning-2021-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/rurouni-kenshin-the-beginning-2021-review/Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning is the saga's sombre prequel, following Takeru Satoh's young assassin and Kasumi Arimura's grieving Tomoe through Bakumatsu Kyoto.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/rurouni-kenshin-the-final-2021-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/rurouni-kenshin-the-final-2021-review/Rurouni Kenshin: The Final pits Takeru Satoh's Kenshin against Mackenyu's vengeful Enishi, a ferocious, emotionally charged late chapter of the Japanese action saga.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/rurouni-kenshin-the-legend-ends-2014-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/rurouni-kenshin-the-legend-ends-2014-review/Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend Ends completes the Kyoto story as Takeru Satoh's Kenshin trains with his old master and faces Shishio in a thunderous finale.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/sabaat-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/sabaat-review/Sabaat is a polished Pakistani Urdu romance set in contemporary Karachi, where love, marriage and class pressure collide; stylish, addictive and a little overlong.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/sang-e-mah-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/sang-e-mah-review/Sang-e-Mah is Saife Hassan's visually ambitious Hum TV drama about honour and tribal custom in Pakistan's mountains, with Atif Aslam in a rare acting role.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/someday-or-one-day-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/someday-or-one-day-review/Someday or One Day is a 13-episode Taiwanese time-travel romance that doubles as a puzzle-box mystery, anchored by Alice Ko and Greg Hsu at their very best.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/suno-chanda-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/suno-chanda-review/Suno Chanda is a Pakistani Ramadan rom-com about two bickering cousins pushed towards marriage, a warm family comedy powered by a lively Iqra Aziz.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-battle-at-lake-changjin-2021-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-battle-at-lake-changjin-2021-review/The Battle at Lake Changjin is China's three-hour Korean War epic, a formidable winter combat film whose patriotic framing leaves little room for nuance.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-long-season-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-long-season-review/The Long Season is Xin Shuang's melancholic Chinese crime drama, a 12-episode puzzle across three timelines in a declining industrial city, led by a superb Fan Wei.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-scarecrow-2026-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-scarecrow-2026-review/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.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-wandering-earth-2-2023-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-wandering-earth-2-2023-review/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.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/trese-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/trese-review/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.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/vengeance-is-mine-all-others-pay-cash-2021-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/vengeance-is-mine-all-others-pay-cash-2021-review/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.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/warkop-dki-reborn-2016-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/warkop-dki-reborn-2016-review/Warkop DKI Reborn: Jangkrik Boss! Part 1 revives Indonesia's most famous comedy trio with new stars, and it is a cultural event more than a consistently funny film.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/when-life-gives-you-tangerines-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/when-life-gives-you-tangerines-review/When Life Gives You Tangerines follows a Jeju couple across four decades, a generational Korean drama in which IU and Park Bo-gum earn every tear it draws.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/zindagi-gulzar-hai-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/zindagi-gulzar-hai-review/Zindagi Gulzar Hai is the Pakistani drama in which Sanam Saeed and Fawad Khan play a principled student and a privileged heir in a class romance done right.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/kkn-di-desa-penari-2022-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/kkn-di-desa-penari-2022-review/KKN di Desa Penari membangun ancaman dari larangan dan kegelisahan para pendatang. Ulasan tanpa spoiler tentang versi film 2022, karakter, atmosfer, dan batas klaim kisah nyata.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/satans-slaves-2017-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/satans-slaves-2017-review/Pengabdi Setan menemukan horor dalam duka, kerja merawat, dan rumah keluarga. Ulasan tanpa spoiler tentang atmosfer, akting Tara Basro, serta batas penjelasan mitologinya.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/news/mcu-slate-2026-2027-guide/https://celluloidscore.com/news/mcu-slate-2026-2027-guide/Marvel’s listed dates for Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars, checked on 8 September 2026. Studio dates are separate from local cinema availability.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTComing SoonNewsKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/news/oscars-2026-predictions/https://celluloidscore.com/news/oscars-2026-predictions/The 98th Oscars took place on 15 March 2026, honouring 2025 releases. A source-backed guide to the major winners and a correction to our earlier predictions article.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTAwardsNewsKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/news/asia-golden-decade-2016-2026/https://celluloidscore.com/news/asia-golden-decade-2016-2026/From Parasite and Ne Zha 2 to Squid Game and Perfect Crown — the Chinese box-office titans and K-drama streaming hits that defined Asian entertainment over the last ten years, with Celluloid Scores and reviews.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTGuideNewsKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/news/best-tv-shows-2026-so-far/https://celluloidscore.com/news/best-tv-shows-2026-so-far/The best TV shows of Jan–July 2026, ranked by Celluloid Score — The Vampire Lestat, Widow's Bay, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Star City — cross-checked against Variety, BBC Culture, Rotten Tomatoes and Netflix's most-watched report. Updated July 22, 2026.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTRoundupNewsKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/news/asia-national-film-tv-awards-guide/https://celluloidscore.com/news/asia-national-film-tv-awards-guide/Yes — Indonesia, Malaysia and Pakistan each have their own 'Oscars': Indonesia's Citra Awards, Malaysia's Festival Filem Malaysia and Anugerah Skrin, and Pakistan's Lux Style Awards. This guide maps each country's jury-judged prestige honors against its fan-voted popularity shows.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTGuideNewsKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/news/asias-biggest-film-festivals-guide/https://celluloidscore.com/news/asias-biggest-film-festivals-guide/Busan is Asia's most significant film festival, Shanghai is its largest by scale, and the Asian Film Awards are its top prize ceremony. Here's how the three work, why they matter, and where their signature films sit in the Celluloid catalog.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTGuideNewsKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/news/hindi-streaming-picks-july-2026/https://celluloidscore.com/news/hindi-streaming-picks-july-2026/Celluloid’s Hindi streaming picks for late July 2026 — Jawan and Pathaan on SVOD, Taare Zameen Par and Gangs of Wasseypur classics, plus Delhi Crime, Panchayat, and The Family Man with critic scores.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTRoundupNewsKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/news/magnolia-awards-shanghai-tv-festival-guide/https://celluloidscore.com/news/magnolia-awards-shanghai-tv-festival-guide/The Magnolia Awards at the Shanghai Television Festival are China’s most authoritative industry-juried TV honors — part of the Big Three with Feitian and Golden Eagle. History, prestige, 2026 global reach, and Celluloid winners.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTGuideNewsKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/news/parasite-ending-explained/https://celluloidscore.com/news/parasite-ending-explained/Full spoilers for Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite — what the birthday party massacre means, who survives in the bunker, and why Ki-woo’s final fantasy is the film’s cruelest joke. Celluloid Pick context.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTGuideNewsKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/news/severance-ending-explained/https://celluloidscore.com/news/severance-ending-explained/Spoiler guide to Apple TV+’s Severance — what the season finales mean for Mark, Helly, and Lumon, why the show refuses tidy answers, and how Celluloid scores the series as essential TV.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTGuideNewsKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/gangs-of-wasseypur-2012-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/gangs-of-wasseypur-2012-review/Gangs of Wasseypur is Anurag Kashyap's sprawling Dhanbad gangster epic, a funny, brutal and song-soaked blood feud that remains Hindi cinema's great modern crime saga.Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/taare-zameen-par-2007-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/taare-zameen-par-2007-review/Taare Zameen Par is Aamir Khan's moving Hindi drama about a dyslexic boy failed by school and family, a humane, influential film that remains essential viewing.Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/news/avengers-doomsday-trailer-presales/https://celluloidscore.com/news/avengers-doomsday-trailer-presales/Marvel lists Avengers: Doomsday for 18 December 2026. Here is the confirmed date, how to check local cinema bookings, and a correction to unsupported trailer-view and presale claims.Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTComing SoonNewsKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/jawan-2023-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/jawan-2023-review/Jawan is Atlee's maximalist Hindi vigilante thriller, a Shah Rukh Khan showcase that is uneven as drama but hard to resist as crowd-pleasing spectacle.Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/pathaan-2023-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/pathaan-2023-review/Pathaan is Siddharth Anand's glossy Hindi spy blockbuster that brought Shah Rukh Khan back as an action hero, big on swagger and set pieces, thin on plotting.Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/delhi-crime-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/delhi-crime-review/Delhi Crime is Richie Mehta's Emmy-winning Hindi police procedural, led by Shefali Shah, and a harrowing, meticulous study of how justice is actually pursued.Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/panchayat-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/panchayat-review/Panchayat is TVF's Hindi comedy about a reluctant city graduate running a village council office in Uttar Pradesh, and one of Indian streaming's warmest shows.Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-family-man-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-family-man-review/The Family Man is Raj & DK's Hindi spy thriller in which Manoj Bajpayee's intelligence officer battles terror plots while his home life quietly falls apart.Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/evil-dead-burn-2026-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/evil-dead-burn-2026-review/Evil Dead Burn is Sébastien Vaniček's grief-soaked family siege and the franchise's meanest chapter. The practical gore is ferocious; the characters and wit are thin.Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/gail-daughtry-and-the-celebrity-sex-pass-2026-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/gail-daughtry-and-the-celebrity-sex-pass-2026-review/Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass is David Wain's loose, joke-packed Hollywood farce, lifted by Zoey Deutch's plucky lead and a bench of comic cameos.Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/lucky-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/lucky-review/Lucky is Apple TV+'s seven-episode heist thriller starring Anya Taylor-Joy as a con artist on the run. Relentless and slick, it wins on speed, not surprise.Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/maximum-pleasure-guaranteed-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/maximum-pleasure-guaranteed-review/Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed is Apple TV+'s darkly funny thriller in which Tatiana Maslany's divorced fact-checker turns sleuth. Twisty, tender and hard to stop.Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-odyssey-2026-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-odyssey-2026-review/The Odyssey is Christopher Nolan's IMAX-shot adaptation of Homer, with Matt Damon as Odysseus, a staggering visual epic whose heart sometimes lags behind its scale.Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/moana-2026-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/moana-2026-review/Disney's live-action Moana is a handsome, near scene-for-scene remake of the 2016 musical. Catherine Lagaʻaia shines, but the film never finds a reason to exist.Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/adolescence-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/adolescence-review/Adolescence films each of its four episodes in one unbroken take, and the technique is the point: a British crime drama that traps viewers inside a family's catastrophe.Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/anora-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/anora-review/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.Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/game-of-thrones-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/game-of-thrones-review/Game of Thrones is HBO's landmark fantasy epic of warring noble houses and dragons, peerless in its early seasons even though a hurried ending divided its audience.Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/my-mister-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/my-mister-review/My Mister is a slow, hushed Korean drama about a weary engineer and a debt-crushed young woman, and one of the finest television series Korea has produced.Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/nirvana-in-fire-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/nirvana-in-fire-review/Nirvana in Fire follows a frail strategist who returns to the capital under a new name to right an old injustice, a Chinese court epic of rare intelligence and craft.Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-legend-of-maula-jatt-2022-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-legend-of-maula-jatt-2022-review/The Legend of Maula Jatt is Bilal Lashari's blood-soaked Punjabi folk epic, a visually spectacular landmark for Pakistani cinema led by Fawad Khan and Hamza Ali Abbasi.Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-pitt-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-pitt-review/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.Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-white-lotus-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-white-lotus-review/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.Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/news/2025-awards-season-recap/https://celluloidscore.com/news/2025-awards-season-recap/A focused recap of the 2025 Oscars, held on 2 March to honour 2024 releases, with Anora, the acting winners, Flow and I’m Still Here. Includes a correction to our earlier season roundup.Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTAwardsNewsKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/news/film-festival-winners-guide/https://celluloidscore.com/news/film-festival-winners-guide/What the Palme d'Or, Golden Lion, Golden Bear, Sundance Grand Jury Prize and Busan New Currents actually mean — and which Cannes, Venice and Sundance winners are worth watching on Celluloid.Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTGuideNewsKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/news/best-tv-shows-to-stream-2026/https://celluloidscore.com/news/best-tv-shows-to-stream-2026/The best TV series streaming right now — from Breaking Bad and The Pitt to Apple TV's summer wave of Lucky, Cape Fear, and Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed — ranked by Celluloid Score and sorted by platform.Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTGuideNewsKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/arcane-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/arcane-review/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.Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/fallout-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/fallout-review/Fallout is Prime Video's post-apocalyptic take on the video games: funny, gory and faithful to their retro-futurist spirit, with Walton Goggins stealing the show.Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/silo-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/silo-review/Silo is Apple TV+'s dystopian mystery about ten thousand people sealed inside an underground bunker, led by Rebecca Ferguson as an engineer who questions its rules.Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-bear-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-bear-review/The Bear turns a failing Chicago sandwich shop into a study of grief under pressure, a formally daring FX drama with superb acting and some self-indulgent stretches.Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-brutalist-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-brutalist-review/The Brutalist is Brady Corbet's 215-minute epic of a Holocaust survivor and architect in postwar America, a monumental film anchored by a towering Adrien Brody.Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-glory-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-glory-review/The Glory is Kim Eun-sook's 16-episode Korean revenge thriller, with Song Hye-kyo as a bullying survivor who spends years building a trap for her tormentors.Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-sopranos-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-sopranos-review/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.Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-untamed-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-untamed-review/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.Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/andor-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/andor-review/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.Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/chernobyl-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/chernobyl-review/Chernobyl is Craig Mazin's five-episode HBO miniseries about the 1986 reactor disaster, a gripping procedural horror about what happens when a state denies the truth.Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/crash-landing-on-you-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/crash-landing-on-you-review/Crash Landing on You is Park Ji-eun's 16-episode romance about a South Korean heiress stranded in North Korea, a fairy tale sincere enough to earn every tear.Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/empresses-in-the-palace-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/empresses-in-the-palace-review/Empresses in the Palace is the benchmark Chinese palace drama: a 76-episode Qing epic about a young consort learning to survive a harem where every gesture is a move.Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/im-still-here-2024-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/im-still-here-2024-review/I'm Still Here is Walter Salles's true story of a Rio family torn apart by Brazil's dictatorship, a restrained masterpiece led by a superb Fernanda Torres.Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/shogun-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/shogun-review/Shōgun is FX's lavish retelling of James Clavell's novel about power in 1600 Japan, told largely in Japanese and anchored by Hiroyuki Sanada and Anna Sawai.Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/slow-horses-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/slow-horses-review/Slow Horses turns Mick Herron's Slough House novels into the sharpest spy series on TV, with Gary Oldman's squalid, brilliant Jackson Lamb at its centre.Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-wire-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-wire-review/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.Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/kingdom-2019-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/kingdom-2019-review/Kingdom sets a zombie plague in Korea's Joseon era and fuses palace intrigue with relentless horror, a lavish, politically sharp series that reinvents the undead.Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/pachinko-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/pachinko-review/Pachinko is Apple TV+'s adaptation of Min Jin Lee's novel, a Korean family saga across generations and languages anchored by Youn Yuh-jung's extraordinary Sunja.Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ted-lasso-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ted-lasso-review/Ted Lasso drops a folksy American coach into English football and turns the culture clash into a warm comedy about kindness and grief, best in its first two seasons.Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-substance-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-substance-review/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.Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/better-call-saul-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/better-call-saul-review/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.Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/dark-2017-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/dark-2017-review/Dark is Germany's three-season Netflix time-travel mystery, a bleak, meticulously plotted puzzle about four families that rewards viewers who give it full attention.Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/fleabag-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/fleabag-review/Fleabag is Phoebe Waller-Bridge's filthy, heartbreaking British tragicomedy about a grieving woman who confides in the audience, and its second season is near perfect.Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/joy-of-life-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/joy-of-life-review/Joy of Life is a Chinese costume epic in which a young man with a modern mind navigates a deadly imperial court, a sprawling saga lifted by sly, disarming wit.Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-seed-of-the-sacred-fig-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-seed-of-the-sacred-fig-review/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.Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/breaking-bad-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/breaking-bad-review/A spoiler-free review of all five seasons: how performance, visual storytelling and Walter White’s shifting excuses turn a crime premise into a study of responsibility.Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/a-real-pain-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/a-real-pain-review/A Real Pain is Jesse Eisenberg's funny, aching road movie about two cousins on a Holocaust heritage tour of Poland, lit up by Kieran Culkin's Oscar-winning turn.Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/baby-reindeer-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/baby-reindeer-review/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.Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/money-heist-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/money-heist-review/Money Heist is Spain's global hit about the Professor and a crew in Dalí masks taking over the Royal Mint. Pulpy, addictive and overstretched in its later parts.Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-knockout-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-knockout-review/The Knockout is China's sprawling 2023 crime saga about a stubborn cop and a fishmonger turned gang boss, powered by Zhang Songwen's mesmerising, star-making villain.Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-last-of-us-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-last-of-us-review/The Last of Us is HBO's adaptation of the post-apocalyptic game, with Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey as a smuggler and teen crossing a ruined America. Devastating TV.Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/severance-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/severance-review/A spoiler-free review of Severance’s nine-episode first season, examining its office design, ensemble, memory premise and deliberately unresolved mysteries.Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/a-different-man-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/a-different-man-review/A Different Man is Aaron Schimberg's darkly funny New York fable about a man who changes his face and not himself, led by Sebastian Stan and Adam Pearson.Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/alice-in-borderland-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/alice-in-borderland-review/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.Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/poker-face-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/poker-face-review/Poker Face is Rian Johnson's Peacock mystery series, a Columbo-style case-of-the-week road trip led by Natasha Lyonne as a drifter who can always spot a lie.Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/lupin-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/lupin-review/Lupin is Netflix's French heist series in which Omar Sy plays a thief inspired by Arsène Lupin, avenging his father. Light, clever and carried by its star.Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/memoir-of-a-snail-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/memoir-of-a-snail-review/Memoir of a Snail is Adam Elliot's stop-motion tale of a lonely woman separated from her twin, a bleak, very funny and deeply humane animated film for adults.Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/succession-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/succession-review/Succession is Jesse Armstrong's savage HBO satire of a media dynasty, a four-season family tragedy with the sharpest dialogue and finest ensemble of its decade.Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-invite-2026-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-invite-2026-review/The Invite is Olivia Wilde's sharp dinner-party comedy in which two couples, one noisy ceiling and a bottle of wine expose a marriage, led by four superb performances.Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/emilia-perez-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/emilia-perez-review/Emilia Pérez is Jacques Audiard's Spanish-language cartel musical about a crime boss who transitions and seeks atonement. Audacious, alive and deeply flawed.Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/sacred-games-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/sacred-games-review/Sacred Games, Netflix's first Indian original, pairs a Mumbai cop's race against catastrophe with a gangster's rise; a grimy, ambitious crime epic, uneven by season two.Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-boys-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-boys-review/The Boys imagines superheroes as brand-managed celebrities and dangerous tyrants, a savage Prime Video satire led by Antony Starr's unforgettable Homelander.Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/cocktail-2-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/cocktail-2-review/Cocktail 2 is Homi Adajania's glossy Sicily-to-India romance with Shahid Kapoor, Kriti Sanon and Rashmika Mandanna, but its love triangle is thin and overlong.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/disclosure-day-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/disclosure-day-review/Disclosure Day is Steven Spielberg's slow-burn first-contact thriller, less about spectacle than about who controls a truth too big to keep, led by Emily Blunt.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/supergirl-2026-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/supergirl-2026-review/Supergirl sends Milly Alcock's Kara Zor-El across the galaxy on a revenge quest, a DC superhero film with a magnetic lead and a script that plays it too safe.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/toy-story-5-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/toy-story-5-review/Toy Story 5 pits Woody, Buzz and Bonnie's toys against a tablet called Lilypad, and Andrew Stanton finds real heart in the franchise's oldest fear: being replaced.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/welcome-to-the-jungle-2026-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/welcome-to-the-jungle-2026-review/Welcome to the Jungle, the third Welcome comedy, drops a veteran ensemble into a jungle film-shoot caper that sprawls over 170 minutes without finding its tone.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/young-washington-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/young-washington-review/Young Washington is Jon Erwin's French and Indian War origin story for George Washington, anchored by a confident William Franklyn-Miller but short on nuance.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/city-of-men-2007-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/city-of-men-2007-review/City of Men is Paulo Morelli's warm, tense favela drama about two best friends facing fatherhood and a gang war, a worthy companion to City of God.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/eski-ya-da-yok-2014-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/eski-ya-da-yok-2014-review/Siccîn is Alper Mestçi's Turkish horror film about a marriage menaced by djinn folklore, and the start of a hit franchise. Culturally rooted scares, familiar tricks.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/house-of-flying-daggers-2004-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/house-of-flying-daggers-2004-review/House of Flying Daggers is Zhang Yimou's lush wuxia romance, a film whose colour, choreography and sound matter more than its tangled plot of loyalties.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/mucize-2015-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/mucize-2015-review/Miracle (Mucize) is Mahsun Kırmızıgül's sentimental Turkish drama about a teacher posted to a remote eastern village. Heartfelt and handsome, if heavy-handed.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/omo-ghetto-the-saga-2020-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/omo-ghetto-the-saga-2020-review/Omo Ghetto: The Saga is Funke Akindele's rowdy Lagos crime comedy about twin sisters from very different worlds, a loud, crowd-pleasing Nollywood blockbuster.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/organize-isler-2005-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/organize-isler-2005-review/Organize İşler is Yılmaz Erdoğan's quick-witted Istanbul crime comedy about a gang of small-time swindlers, a much-quoted favourite of modern Turkish humour.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/1917-2019-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/1917-2019-review/1917 is Sam Mendes's First World War race against time, staged to look like one continuous shot, and a rare technical feat that keeps its humanity.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/3-idiots-2009-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/3-idiots-2009-review/3 Idiots is Rajkumar Hirani's hugely popular Hindi campus comedy, a warm, funny attack on rote learning that still lands despite its length and broad jokes.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/8-half-1963-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/8-half-1963-review/8½ is Federico Fellini's dazzling film about a director who cannot make his next film, a funny, dreamlike self-portrait and cinema's great study of creative block.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/a-dogs-will-2000-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/a-dogs-will-2000-review/A Dog's Will is Brazil's beloved comedy about two penniless tricksters in the northeastern backlands, a quick-witted, irreverent folk tale with real heart.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/a-prophet-2009-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/a-prophet-2009-review/A Prophet is Jacques Audiard's French prison epic about a young inmate who learns power from the inside, a gripping crime drama built around Tahar Rahim.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ada-apa-dengan-cinta-2002-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ada-apa-dengan-cinta-2002-review/Ada Apa dengan Cinta? karya Rudy Soedjarwo adalah drama remaja Jakarta tentang cinta pertama, puisi, dan persahabatan, dengan dialog yang masih terasa jujur.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/aile-arasinda-2017-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/aile-arasinda-2017-review/Aile Arasında is Ozan Açıktan's hit Turkish ensemble comedy, a fast, warm family farce about keeping up appearances that lands most of its big laughs.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/akira-1988-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/akira-1988-review/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.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/all-about-my-mother-1999-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/all-about-my-mother-1999-review/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.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/all-quiet-on-the-western-front-2022-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/all-quiet-on-the-western-front-2022-review/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.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/all-we-imagine-as-light-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/all-we-imagine-as-light-review/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.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/amelie-2001-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/amelie-2001-review/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.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/amores-perros-2000-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/amores-perros-2000-review/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.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/amour-2012-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/amour-2012-review/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.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/anatomy-of-a-fall-2023-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/anatomy-of-a-fall-2023-review/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.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/andhadhun-2018-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/andhadhun-2018-review/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.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/anikulapo-2022-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/anikulapo-2022-review/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.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/aquarius-2016-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/aquarius-2016-review/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.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/arisan-2003-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/arisan-2003-review/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.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ayla-2017-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ayla-2017-review/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.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/baahubali-2-2017-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/baahubali-2-2017-review/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.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/bacurau-2019-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/bacurau-2019-review/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.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/battle-royale-2000-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/battle-royale-2000-review/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.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/black-orpheus-1959-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/black-orpheus-1959-review/Black Orpheus is Marcel Camus's Palme d'Or-winning retelling of the Orpheus myth at Rio's Carnival, a dazzling romance whose bossa nova score still enchants.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/blue-is-the-warmest-color-2013-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/blue-is-the-warmest-color-2013-review/Blue Is the Warmest Color is Abdellatif Kechiche's Palme d'Or-winning three-hour romance, with Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux in astonishing form.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/burning-2018-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/burning-2018-review/Burning is Lee Chang-dong's hypnotic Murakami adaptation, a Korean mystery about a young man, an old friend and a rich stranger that simmers with class resentment.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/call-me-by-your-name-2017-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/call-me-by-your-name-2017-review/Call Me by Your Name is Luca Guadagnino's sun-soaked 1980s romance about a teenager's first love, lifted by Timothée Chalamet's breakthrough performance.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/casino-royale-2006-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/casino-royale-2006-review/Casino Royale is Martin Campbell's hard-edged reboot of James Bond, with Daniel Craig as a raw new 007 facing Mads Mikkelsen's banker across a poker table.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/cell-211-2009-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/cell-211-2009-review/Cell 211 is Daniel Monzón's ferocious Spanish prison thriller about a rookie guard forced to pose as an inmate during a riot, led by a towering Luis Tosar.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/central-station-1998-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/central-station-1998-review/Central Station is Walter Salles's Brazilian road movie about a jaded letter writer and an orphaned boy, powered by Fernanda Montenegro's extraordinary lead.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/chicken-for-linda-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/chicken-for-linda-review/Chicken for Linda! is a hand-painted French animated farce about a mother's frantic quest to cook her grieving daughter one special dish, and it is a joy.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/cinema-paradiso-1988-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/cinema-paradiso-1988-review/Cinema Paradiso is Giuseppe Tornatore's Oscar-winning Sicilian memory film about a boy, a projectionist and a village cinema, and it remains overwhelmingly moving.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/city-of-god-2002-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/city-of-god-2002-review/City of God is Fernando Meirelles's explosive crime saga about boys growing up amid Rio's favela drug wars, and it remains one of the great films of its century.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/coco-2017-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/coco-2017-review/Coco is Pixar's dazzling Day of the Dead adventure about a Mexican boy who dreams of music and crosses into the Land of the Dead, and it is gloriously moving.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon-2000-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon-2000-review/Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is Ang Lee's Mandarin-language wuxia romance, a film of weightless swordplay and restrained longing that still feels graceful.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/dangal-2016-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/dangal-2016-review/Dangal is Nitesh Tiwari's rousing Hindi wrestling drama, with Aamir Khan as a father who trains his daughters to fight, and a crowd-pleaser with real grit.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/das-boot-1981-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/das-boot-1981-review/Das Boot is Wolfgang Petersen's German submarine epic, a claustrophobic war film that traps viewers inside a U-boat and shows the cost of the war it depicts.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/decision-to-leave-2022-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/decision-to-leave-2022-review/Decision to Leave is Park Chan-wook's romantic noir about a detective drawn to a murder suspect, a dazzling, melancholy puzzle that trades violence for longing.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/dilwale-dulhania-le-jayenge-1995-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/dilwale-dulhania-le-jayenge-1995-review/Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge is Aditya Chopra's 1995 Hindi romance with Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol, the Europe-to-Punjab love story that shaped modern Bollywood.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/downfall-2004-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/downfall-2004-review/Downfall is Oliver Hirschbiegel's German drama of Hitler's final days in the Berlin bunker, anchored by Bruno Ganz and chilling in its portrait of collapse and denial.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/elite-squad-2007-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/elite-squad-2007-review/Elite Squad is José Padilha's ferocious Brazilian police thriller about Rio's BOPE unit. Gripping, brutal and still hotly debated, it is essential crime cinema.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/et-the-extra-terrestrial-1982-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/et-the-extra-terrestrial-1982-review/E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is Steven Spielberg's story of a lonely boy and a stranded alien, a family film whose wonder and heartache have barely aged in over 40 years.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/farewell-my-concubine-1993-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/farewell-my-concubine-1993-review/Farewell My Concubine is Chen Kaige's sweeping Beijing opera epic, a story of two performers whose lifelong bond is tested by half a century of Chinese upheaval.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/forrest-gump-1994-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/forrest-gump-1994-review/Forrest Gump is Robert Zemeckis's sweeping tragicomic odyssey through postwar America, anchored by Tom Hanks as a gentle Alabama man who never stops loving Jenny.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/girls-will-be-girls-2024-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/girls-will-be-girls-2024-review/Girls Will Be Girls is Shuchi Talati's perceptive coming-of-age drama at a strict Himalayan boarding school, where a teenager's first romance collides with her mother.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/godzilla-minus-one-2023-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/godzilla-minus-one-2023-review/Godzilla Minus One is Takashi Yamazaki's postwar kaiju drama, in which a guilt-ridden former kamikaze pilot faces the monster: perhaps the best Godzilla film since 1954.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/gomorrah-2008-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/gomorrah-2008-review/Gomorrah is Matteo Garrone's unflinching Naples crime drama, five interwoven stories that strip every trace of glamour from the Camorra and the lives it controls.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/good-bye-lenin-2003-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/good-bye-lenin-2003-review/Good Bye, Lenin! is Wolfgang Becker's tragicomedy about a son who hides reunification from his mother, and a tender, funny portrait of a country that vanished.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/gundala-2019-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/gundala-2019-review/Gundala karya Joko Anwar membuka jagat Bumilangit dengan superhero yang lahir dari jalanan dan ketimpangan kelas. Kelam, politis, meski paruh akhirnya padat.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/half-of-a-yellow-sun-2013-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/half-of-a-yellow-sun-2013-review/Half of a Yellow Sun is Biyi Bandele's adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Biafran War novel: handsome and well acted, but squeezed by its source's scope.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/harry-potter-and-the-philosophers-stone-2001-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/harry-potter-and-the-philosophers-stone-2001-review/Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is Chris Columbus's warm, faithful first trip to Hogwarts, a family fantasy whose sense of wonder still casts a spell.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/hero-2002-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/hero-2002-review/Hero is Zhang Yimou's ravishing wuxia epic about a nameless warrior and the King of Qin, told in colour-coded versions that turn swordplay into visual poetry.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/i-saw-the-devil-2010-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/i-saw-the-devil-2010-review/I Saw the Devil is Kim Jee-woon's savage Korean revenge thriller, a brilliantly made duel between an agent and a serial killer that dares you to keep watching.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/imperfect-2019-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/imperfect-2019-review/Imperfect is Ernest Prakasa's Indonesian comedy-drama about a young woman judged for her looks, a funny, heartfelt crowd-pleaser with a sincere message.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/in-the-mood-for-love-2000-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/in-the-mood-for-love-2000-review/In the Mood for Love is Wong Kar-wai's exquisite 1960s Hong Kong romance of two neighbours drawn together by betrayal, and one of cinema's great love stories.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/instructions-not-included-2013-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/instructions-not-included-2013-review/Instructions Not Included is Eugenio Derbez's warm Mexican comedy-drama about a playboy who becomes an accidental father, broad, big-hearted and moving.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/jaws-1975-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/jaws-1975-review/Jaws is Steven Spielberg's 1975 shark thriller, the film that created the summer blockbuster and still grips because it understands suspense better than spectacle.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/king-of-boys-2018-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/king-of-boys-2018-review/King of Boys is Kemi Adetiba's sprawling Lagos crime saga, a Nollywood epic of politics and the underworld built around a towering Sola Sobowale performance.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/kung-fu-hustle-2004-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/kung-fu-hustle-2004-review/Kung Fu Hustle is Stephen Chow's anarchic martial-arts comedy, a live-action cartoon set in a 1940s slum that doubles as a loving tribute to kung fu cinema.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/la-dolce-vita-1960-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/la-dolce-vita-1960-review/La Dolce Vita is Federico Fellini's Palme d'Or-winning portrait of a Roman gossip columnist adrift among celebrities and parties, still dazzling and unsettling.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/la-haine-1995-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/la-haine-1995-review/La Haine follows three young friends through one tense day in a Paris banlieue after a riot. Mathieu Kassovitz's black-and-white drama has lost none of its charge.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/lagaan-2001-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/lagaan-2001-review/Lagaan is Ashutosh Gowariker's Oscar-nominated epic in which Aamir Khan leads a drought-hit village against its British rulers in a cricket match. Grand and rousing.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/laskar-pelangi-2008-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/laskar-pelangi-2008-review/Laskar Pelangi karya Riri Riza mengangkat novel Andrea Hirata tentang sepuluh murid dan guru mereka di Belitung: drama sekolah yang hangat, lucu, dan mengharukan.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/lawrence-of-arabia-1962-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/lawrence-of-arabia-1962-review/Lawrence of Arabia is David Lean's Oscar-winning desert epic about T. E. Lawrence in the First World War, a spectacle that doubles as a study of a troubled hero.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/life-is-beautiful-1997-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/life-is-beautiful-1997-review/Life Is Beautiful is Roberto Benigni's Oscar-winning fable of a Jewish Italian father who shields his son from a Nazi camp through humour. Daring and devastating.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/like-water-for-chocolate-1992-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/like-water-for-chocolate-1992-review/Like Water for Chocolate is Alfonso Arau's magical-realist Mexican romance about a woman forbidden to marry, whose cooking carries her feelings to all who eat it.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/lionheart-2018-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/lionheart-2018-review/Lionheart is Genevieve Nnaji's warm Nollywood comedy-drama about a daughter fighting to save her father's bus company, gentle and likeable if rarely surprising.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/living-in-bondage-breaking-free-2019-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/living-in-bondage-breaking-free-2019-review/Living in Bondage: Breaking Free is Ramsey Nouah's slick sequel to Nollywood's founding occult drama, a Lagos thriller about ambition, secret societies and debt.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/macario-1960-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/macario-1960-review/Macario is Roberto Gavaldón's Mexican fable about a starving woodcutter who shares a meal with Death on the Day of the Dead, a haunting classic of hunger and fate.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/marlina-the-murderer-2017-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/marlina-the-murderer-2017-review/Marlina si Pembunuh dalam Empat Babak karya Mouly Surya memindahkan film western ke savana Sumba: kisah balas dendam seorang janda yang tenang dan tajam.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/memories-of-murder-2003-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/memories-of-murder-2003-review/Memories of Murder is Bong Joon Ho's 1980s serial-killer procedural, a darkly funny and haunting portrait of detectives, and a country, out of their depth.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/metropolis-1927-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/metropolis-1927-review/Metropolis is Fritz Lang's 1927 silent epic of a future city split between rulers and workers, a visionary landmark whose images still shape science fiction.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/minari-2020-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/minari-2020-review/Minari is Lee Isaac Chung's tender, semi-autobiographical drama about a Korean American family farming in rural Arkansas, lifted by a scene-stealing grandmother.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/miracle-in-cell-no-7-2019-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/miracle-in-cell-no-7-2019-review/Miracle in Cell No. 7 is Turkey's remake of the Korean tearjerker about a wrongly jailed father and his daughter, and it is shamelessly, effectively moving.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/naga-bonar-1987-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/naga-bonar-1987-review/Naga Bonar is the beloved Indonesian comedy about a con man who makes himself a guerrilla commander in the independence war, powered by Deddy Mizwar's iconic lead.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/nefes-vatan-sagolsun-2009-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/nefes-vatan-sagolsun-2009-review/Nefes: Vatan Sağolsun is Levent Semerci's tense Turkish war drama about soldiers holding a remote mountain outpost, a stylish, claustrophobic study of endurance.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/october-1-2014-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/october-1-2014-review/October 1 is Kunle Afolayan's period crime thriller about a police inspector hunting a killer as Nigeria nears independence, ambitious and handsomely made.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/oldboy-2003-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/oldboy-2003-review/Oldboy is Park Chan-wook's feverish revenge thriller about a man freed after 15 years of unexplained captivity, with Choi Min-sik unforgettable in the lead.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/paddington-2-2017-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/paddington-2-2017-review/Paddington 2 is Paul King's warm, witty family comedy in which the marmalade-loving bear is framed for theft, a sequel that outshines the charming original.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/pain-and-glory-2019-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/pain-and-glory-2019-review/Pain and Glory is Pedro Almodóvar's tender, semi-autobiographical drama about an ailing film director, with Antonio Banderas giving the performance of his life.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/pans-labyrinth-2006-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/pans-labyrinth-2006-review/Pan's Labyrinth is Guillermo del Toro's dark fantasy about a girl in Franco's Spain who escapes into a world of fauns and monsters, as brutal as it is beautiful.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/perfect-strangers-2016-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/perfect-strangers-2016-review/Perfect Strangers is Paolo Genovese's sharp Italian chamber comedy in which friends at a dinner party read every phone message aloud, with painfully funny results.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/phone-swap-2012-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/phone-swap-2012-review/Phone Swap is Kunle Afolayan's breezy Nigerian romantic comedy about two strangers whose accidental phone exchange pulls each into the other's life for a weekend.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/pixote-1980-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/pixote-1980-review/Pixote is Héctor Babenco's harrowing Brazilian drama about São Paulo street children, cast with real kids and shot with an unflinching, neorealist honesty.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/pk-2014-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/pk-2014-review/PK is Rajkumar Hirani's Hindi satire in which Aamir Khan's stranded alien pokes at religious hypocrisy, pairing big laughs with a surprisingly bold argument.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire-2019-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire-2019-review/Portrait of a Lady on Fire is Céline Sciamma's 18th-century French love story between a painter and her reluctant subject, a romance built on precise, intense looking.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/princess-mononoke-1997-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/princess-mononoke-1997-review/Princess Mononoke is Hayao Miyazaki's animated fantasy epic about a cursed prince caught between a forest's gods and an ironworks town, and it refuses easy villains.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/pulp-fiction-1994-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/pulp-fiction-1994-review/Pulp Fiction is Quentin Tarantino's Palme d'Or-winning Los Angeles crime film, a shuffled deck of hitmen, boxers and robbers that changed American cinema in the 1990s.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/queen-2013-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/queen-2013-review/Queen is Vikas Bahl's Hindi comedy-drama about a jilted Delhi bride who takes her honeymoon alone in Europe, lifted by Kangana Ranaut's funny, disarming lead turn.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/raise-the-red-lantern-1991-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/raise-the-red-lantern-1991-review/Raise the Red Lantern is Zhang Yimou's severe, ravishing drama of a young concubine in a 1920s household, with Gong Li at her best as a woman learning its rules.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ran-1985-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ran-1985-review/Ran is Akira Kurosawa's King Lear transplanted to feudal Japan, a vast, colour-drenched tragedy of a warlord and his sons that ranks among the great war films.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/rashomon-1950-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/rashomon-1950-review/Rashomon is Akira Kurosawa's compact drama of a forest crime told by witnesses who cannot agree, the 88-minute film that made the world look at Japanese cinema.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/recep-ivedik-2008-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/recep-ivedik-2008-review/Recep Ivedik unleashes Şahan Gökbakar's boorish, beloved creation on a trip to Antalya, a crude Turkish comedy that became a pop-culture phenomenon.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/red-cliff-2008-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/red-cliff-2008-review/Red Cliff is John Woo's lavish retelling of the Three Kingdoms battle, with Tony Leung and Takeshi Kaneshiro as allies facing Cao Cao's vast army and fleet.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/roma-2018-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/roma-2018-review/Roma is Alfonso Cuarón's black-and-white portrait of a domestic worker in 1970s Mexico City, an intimate family drama staged with extraordinary visual scale.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/rrr-2022-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/rrr-2022-review/RRR is S. S. Rajamouli's colossal Telugu action epic about two revolutionaries in 1920s British India, a film of wild set pieces and even wilder friendship.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/run-lola-run-1998-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/run-lola-run-1998-review/Run Lola Run is Tom Tykwer's 80-minute Berlin sprint, a German thriller in which Franka Potente races the clock again and again to save her boyfriend.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/santosh-2024-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/santosh-2024-review/Santosh is Sandhya Suri's gripping Hindi police drama about a widow who inherits her husband's constable job, anchored by Shahana Goswami's slow-burning lead.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/seven-samurai-1954-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/seven-samurai-1954-review/Seven Samurai is Akira Kurosawa's three-and-a-half-hour epic of farmers, ronin and bandits, and still the richest, most thrilling action film ever made.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/shaun-of-the-dead-2004-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/shaun-of-the-dead-2004-review/Shaun of the Dead is Edgar Wright's zombie comedy about a London slacker, a brilliantly edited genre riff that is also a surprisingly tender story about growing up.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/sholay-1975-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/sholay-1975-review/Sholay is Ramesh Sippy's sprawling 1975 Hindi 'curry western' about two crooks hired to catch a bandit, still the most quoted and beloved Bollywood blockbuster.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/sin-nombre-2009-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/sin-nombre-2009-review/Sin Nombre is Cary Joji Fukunaga's tense Spanish-language debut about a gang member and a Honduran girl riding freight trains north, raw, gripping and humane.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/sister-midnight-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/sister-midnight-review/Sister Midnight is Karan Kandhari's deadpan Mumbai marriage comedy that mutates into something wilder, driven by a fearless, ferocious lead turn from Radhika Apte.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/skyfall-2012-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/skyfall-2012-review/Skyfall is Sam Mendes's gorgeous, surprisingly personal James Bond film, with Daniel Craig, Judi Dench and a superb Javier Bardem, and one of the best in the series.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/star-wars-1977-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/star-wars-1977-review/Star Wars (1977) is George Lucas's space-opera fairy tale, a film that reshaped Hollywood and still works as a brisk, joyful adventure nearly fifty years on.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/superman-2025-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/superman-2025-review/Superman is James Gunn's bright, big-hearted reboot of the Man of Steel, with David Corenswet as a sincere Clark Kent in a crowded but joyful new DC universe.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/suspiria-1977-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/suspiria-1977-review/Suspiria is Dario Argento's 1977 horror landmark about an American dancer at a sinister German ballet school, a nightmare built from saturated colour and noise.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/talk-to-her-2002-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/talk-to-her-2002-review/Talk to Her is Pedro Almodóvar's Oscar-winning drama about two men caring for women in comas, a tender, daring and deeply unsettling study of love and obsession.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-artist-2011-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-artist-2011-review/The Artist is Michel Hazanavicius's black-and-white silent film about a Hollywood star undone by talkies, a crowd-pleaser with real feeling under the pastiche.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-bridge-on-the-river-kwai-1957-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-bridge-on-the-river-kwai-1957-review/The Bridge on the River Kwai is David Lean's POW epic about a British colonel's obsession with doing a job well, even for the enemy, and it remains gripping.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-butterflys-dream-2013-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-butterflys-dream-2013-review/The Butterfly's Dream is a Turkish period drama about two young poets with tuberculosis in 1940s Zonguldak, a handsome, heartfelt film that leans on sentiment.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-crime-of-father-amaro-2002-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-crime-of-father-amaro-2002-review/The Crime of Father Amaro stars Gael García Bernal as a young priest drawn into desire and corruption in a Mexican parish, a provocative, gripping melodrama.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-dark-knight-2008-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-dark-knight-2008-review/The Dark Knight is Christopher Nolan's Batman sequel, a sprawling crime epic in which Heath Ledger's Joker tests Gotham's moral limits. It still sets the bar.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-diving-bell-and-the-butterfly-2007-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-diving-bell-and-the-butterfly-2007-review/The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is Julian Schnabel's true story of a paralysed editor who wrote a memoir by blinking, a film that makes confinement feel limitless.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-figurine-2009-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-figurine-2009-review/The Figurine is Kunle Afolayan's supernatural thriller about two friends and a statue promising seven years of fortune, an ambitious landmark of new Nigerian cinema.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-godfather-1972-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-godfather-1972-review/The Godfather is Francis Ford Coppola's mafia epic about a family business and a son's slow corruption, and more than five decades on it remains the crime film to beat.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-great-beauty-2013-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-great-beauty-2013-review/The Great Beauty is Paolo Sorrentino's dazzling, melancholy portrait of an ageing Roman socialite, a Fellini-inspired drama that finds grief beneath the party.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-handmaiden-2016-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-handmaiden-2016-review/The Handmaiden is Park Chan-wook's lavish erotic thriller about a pickpocket, an heiress and a swindle, relocated from Victorian England to colonial-era Korea.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-host-2006-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-host-2006-review/The Host is Bong Joon Ho's anarchic Korean creature feature about a hapless family hunting a river monster, as funny and angry as it is frightening.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-intouchables-2011-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-intouchables-2011-review/The Intouchables is the French comedy-drama about a paralysed aristocrat and his irreverent carer, a joyous odd-couple friendship powered by Omar Sy and François Cluzet.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-kings-speech-2010-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-kings-speech-2010-review/The King's Speech is Tom Hooper's warm British drama about George VI's stammer and his unlikely therapist, lifted by superb turns from Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-leopard-1963-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-leopard-1963-review/The Leopard is Luchino Visconti's sumptuous Sicilian epic of a prince facing Italian unification, a film about decline as graceful as it is clear-eyed.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-lives-of-others-2006-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-lives-of-others-2006-review/The Lives of Others is a gripping East German surveillance drama about a Stasi officer bugging a playwright, anchored by Ulrich Mühe's masterly, restrained lead.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-matrix-1999-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-matrix-1999-review/The Matrix is the Wachowskis' landmark sci-fi action film about a hacker who learns his world is a simulation, still thrilling, witty and startlingly influential.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-motorcycle-diaries-2004-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-motorcycle-diaries-2004-review/The Motorcycle Diaries follows a young Che Guevara across 1950s South America, a warm, beautifully shot road movie that turns a political icon into a searching student.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-orphanage-2007-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-orphanage-2007-review/The Orphanage is J.A. Bayona's Spanish ghost story about a mother searching for her missing son, a classically crafted chiller with a devastating emotional core.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-others-2001-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-others-2001-review/The Others is Alejandro Amenábar's gothic ghost story with Nicole Kidman as a mother guarding her children in a dark mansion, a masterclass in restraint and dread.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-sea-inside-2004-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-sea-inside-2004-review/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.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-second-mother-2015-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-second-mother-2015-review/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.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-shawshank-redemption-1994-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-shawshank-redemption-1994-review/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.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-skin-i-live-in-2011-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-skin-i-live-in-2011-review/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.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-wandering-earth-2019-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-wandering-earth-2019-review/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.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-wedding-party-2016-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-wedding-party-2016-review/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.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-white-ribbon-2009-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-white-ribbon-2009-review/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.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/titanic-1997-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/titanic-1997-review/Titanic is James Cameron's colossal romantic disaster epic, pairing Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet with a staggering recreation of the doomed ocean liner.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/tokyo-story-1953-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/tokyo-story-1953-review/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.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/toni-erdmann-2016-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/toni-erdmann-2016-review/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.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/train-to-busan-2016-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/train-to-busan-2016-review/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.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/trainspotting-1996-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/trainspotting-1996-review/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.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/victoria-2015-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/victoria-2015-review/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.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/volver-2006-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/volver-2006-review/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.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/wolf-warrior-2-2017-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/wolf-warrior-2-2017-review/Wolf Warrior 2 is Wu Jing's patriotic action spectacle about a Chinese ex-commando in an African war zone, pairing thrilling set pieces with blunt, flag-waving politics.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/y-tu-mama-tambien-2001-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/y-tu-mama-tambien-2001-review/Y Tu Mamá También is Alfonso Cuarón's road movie about two teenage friends and an older woman crossing Mexico, a raunchy comedy that deepens into something profound.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/yellowjackets-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/yellowjackets-review/Yellowjackets splits its story between teenage plane-crash survivors in the wilderness and the damaged women they become, turning survival horror into a study of trauma.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/your-name-2016-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/your-name-2016-review/Your Name is Makoto Shinkai's anime about a Tokyo boy and a country girl who wake up in each other's bodies, a funny, dazzling romance that grows into much more.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/parasite-2019-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/parasite-2019-review/Bong Joon Ho turns a family's search for work into a thriller about space, dignity and dependence. A spoiler-free assessment of its performances, visual design and uneasy comedy.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/spirited-away-2001-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/spirited-away-2001-review/Hayao Miyazaki's fantasy turns bewilderment, work and small acts of kindness into an extraordinary adventure. A spoiler-free review of its animation, world-building and emotional logic.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-raid-2011-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-raid-2011-review/The Raid mengubah gedung terkepung menjadi ujian ruang, tenaga, dan keputusan. Ulasan tanpa spoiler tentang koreografi silat, kejelasan gambar, dan keterbatasan dramanya.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/flies-2026-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/flies-2026-review/Flies is Fernando Eimbcke's black-and-white Mexico City drama about a guarded woman left in charge of a stranger's young son, and it earns its tears through restraint.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/minions-and-monsters-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/minions-and-monsters-review/Minions & Monsters sends Gru's henchmen into a failing monster-movie studio, and its love of old Hollywood horror makes it the liveliest Minions film in years.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ghostlight-2024-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ghostlight-2024-review/Ghostlight is Kelly O'Sullivan and Alex Thompson's tender drama about a grieving construction worker who stumbles into community theatre, played by a real family with rare honesty.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/left-handed-girl-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/left-handed-girl-review/Left-Handed Girl is Shih-Ching Tsou's intimate Taipei drama about a single mother and her daughters running a night-market stall, observed with warmth and bite.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/aisha-2022-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/aisha-2022-review/Aisha is Frank Berry's restrained Irish drama about a Nigerian woman stuck in the asylum system, anchored by a quietly devastating Letitia Wright.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/black-box-diaries-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/black-box-diaries-review/Black Box Diaries is Shiori Ito's Oscar-nominated documentary about investigating her own sexual assault in Japan, a raw and urgent act of self-exposure.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/caught-by-the-tides-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/caught-by-the-tides-review/Caught by the Tides is Jia Zhangke's drifting love story built partly from two decades of his own footage, with Zhao Tao ageing alongside a changing China.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/come-see-me-in-the-good-light-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/come-see-me-in-the-good-light-review/Come See Me in the Good Light follows poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley through a terminal diagnosis and finds a love story as funny as it is brave.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/cover-up-2025-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/cover-up-2025-review/Cover-Up profiles investigative reporter Seymour Hersh across decades of unwelcome scoops, and plays as a gripping case study in how buried stories get out.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/deaf-president-now-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/deaf-president-now-review/Deaf President Now! revisits the 1988 Gallaudet University protests through the people who led them, and tells deaf history in a deaf filmmaking language.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/dungeons-and-dragons-honor-among-thieves-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/dungeons-and-dragons-honor-among-thieves-review/Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is a fantasy heist comedy that wins by refusing to take itself seriously. It is light, funny and a touch too long.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/eephus-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/eephus-review/Eephus is Carson Lund's gentle, funny film about the last amateur baseball game on a doomed New England field, and a quietly profound elegy for small rituals.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/familiar-touch-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/familiar-touch-review/Familiar Touch is Sarah Friedland's gentle drama about a retired cook moving into memory care, anchored by a superb Kathleen Chalfant. Humane, precise and moving.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/flow-2024-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/flow-2024-review/Flow is Gints Zilbalodis's wordless Latvian animated fable about a cat surviving a great flood, and its Oscar-winning images carry more feeling than most scripts.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/from-ground-zero-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/from-ground-zero-review/From Ground Zero gathers 22 short films made by Palestinian filmmakers in Gaza during the war, an uneven but vital anthology that moves from dark humour to raw grief.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/good-one-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/good-one-review/Good One is India Donaldson's quietly piercing debut, in which a Catskills hiking trip shows a 17-year-old how easily the men around her let her down.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/happyend-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/happyend-review/Happyend is Neo Sora's near-future Tokyo drama about two best friends drifting apart as surveillance tightens around their school, and a quietly furious debut.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/his-three-daughters-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/his-three-daughters-review/His Three Daughters is Azazel Jacobs's intimate chamber drama in which Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Olsen and Natasha Lyonne play sisters keeping vigil for their father.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/holy-cow-2024-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/holy-cow-2024-review/Holy Cow is Louise Courvoisier's warm, earthy debut about a Jura teenager who tries to make prize-winning cheese after his father's death. It is funny and tender.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/it-was-just-an-accident-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/it-was-just-an-accident-review/It Was Just an Accident is Jafar Panahi's Palme d'Or-winning thriller about former prisoners who may have found their torturer: tense, funny and morally piercing.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/its-never-over-jeff-buckley-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/its-never-over-jeff-buckley-review/It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley is Amy Berg's intimate documentary about the singer of Grace, built on private recordings and mourning without turning him into a saint.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/laroy-texas-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/laroy-texas-review/LaRoy, Texas is Shane Atkinson's darkly comic crime thriller about a hapless man mistaken for a hitman, lifted by John Magaro and Steve Zahn's sharp performances.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/late-night-with-the-devil-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/late-night-with-the-devil-review/Late Night with the Devil stages a possession story as a lost 1977 talk-show broadcast, with David Dastmalchian superb as a host desperate for ratings.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/lesbian-space-princess-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/lesbian-space-princess-review/Lesbian Space Princess is a scrappy Australian animated comedy in which a sheltered princess sets out to rescue her bounty-hunter ex. Silly, raunchy and sincere.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/little-amelie-or-the-character-of-rain-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/little-amelie-or-the-character-of-rain-review/Little Amélie or the Character of Rain is a French animated film that sees early childhood in Japan through a toddler's eyes, as a flood of colour, wonder and loss.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/little-trouble-girls-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/little-trouble-girls-review/Little Trouble Girls is a Slovenian coming-of-age drama in which a shy choir girl's first desire stirs during a convent retreat, told through glances and song.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/lola-2023-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/lola-2023-review/LOLA is Andrew Legge's found-footage alternate history about two sisters in 1941 whose homemade machine hears the future, a playful idea that turns unsettling.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/marlee-matlin-not-alone-anymore-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/marlee-matlin-not-alone-anymore-review/Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore is Shoshannah Stern's documentary portrait of the Deaf actor, told largely in her own signed words and frank about the hard parts.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/megadoc-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/megadoc-review/Megadoc is Mike Figgis's fly-on-the-wall documentary about Francis Ford Coppola making Megalopolis, a candid look at obsession, money and creative risk.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/molli-and-max-in-the-future-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/molli-and-max-in-the-future-review/Molli and Max in the Future is a homemade sci-fi rom-com following two friends across years and galaxies, its charm outrunning a small budget and patchy jokes.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/no-other-choice-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/no-other-choice-review/No Other Choice is Park Chan-wook's pitch-black comedy thriller about a laid-off paper-industry veteran, with Lee Byung-hun superb as a decent man turning desperate.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/nowhere-special-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/nowhere-special-review/Nowhere Special is Uberto Pasolini's restrained drama about a dying single father choosing a new family for his small son, with James Norton at his very best.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/on-becoming-a-guinea-fowl-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/on-becoming-a-guinea-fowl-review/On Becoming a Guinea Fowl is Rungano Nyoni's wry, unsettling Zambian drama about a family funeral that exposes what everyone has agreed not to say.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/robot-dreams-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/robot-dreams-review/Robot Dreams is Pablo Berger's dialogue-free animated film about a lonely dog and the robot he builds in 1980s New York, a small story with a big emotional reach.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/secret-mall-apartment-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/secret-mall-apartment-review/Secret Mall Apartment is Jeremy Workman's funny, affectionate documentary about Rhode Island artists who hid a home inside a shopping mall for four years.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/sing-sing-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/sing-sing-review/Sing Sing is Greg Kwedar's moving prison drama about an inmate theatre troupe, led by Colman Domingo and formerly incarcerated men playing versions of themselves.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/souleymanes-story-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/souleymanes-story-review/Souleymane's Story follows a Paris delivery rider in the two days before his asylum interview, and Boris Lojkine makes that deadline as gripping as any thriller.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-crime-is-mine-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-crime-is-mine-review/The Crime Is Mine is François Ozon's 1930s Paris murder farce, a stylish, witty caper about fame and false confessions, with Isabelle Huppert stealing scenes.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-goldman-case-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-goldman-case-review/The Goldman Case is Cédric Kahn's gripping French courtroom drama about a 1975 appeal, confined to one Paris courtroom and driven by Arieh Worthalter's volatile lead.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-perfect-neighbor-2025-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-perfect-neighbor-2025-review/The Perfect Neighbor is Geeta Gandbhir's documentary about a Florida feud that turned fatal, built from police bodycam footage into a quietly devastating indictment.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-plague-2025-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-plague-2025-review/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.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-promised-land-2023-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-promised-land-2023-review/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.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-wild-robot-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-wild-robot-review/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.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/thelma-2024-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/thelma-2024-review/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.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/to-a-land-unknown-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/to-a-land-unknown-review/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.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/viet-and-nam-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/viet-and-nam-review/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.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/vulcanizadora-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/vulcanizadora-review/Vulcanizadora follows two Michigan friends into the woods to carry out a suicide pact; Joel Potrykus's deadpan comedy turns into something genuinely devastating.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/wallace-and-gromit-vengeance-most-fowl-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/wallace-and-gromit-vengeance-most-fowl-review/Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl brings back Feathers McGraw for a stop-motion caper about a too-helpful robot gnome, and Aardman is on glorious form.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/house-of-the-dragon-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/house-of-the-dragon-review/House of the Dragon is HBO's Game of Thrones prequel, a sumptuous Targaryen family tragedy about a contested succession that slides the realm into civil war.Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/problemista-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/problemista-review/Problemista is Julio Torres's surreal New York comedy about a Salvadoran toy designer racing to save his US visa, with Tilda Swinton as his impossible new employer.Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/perfect-days-2023-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/perfect-days-2023-review/Perfect Days is Wim Wenders's serene Tokyo drama about a public-toilet cleaner's daily rituals, anchored by Kōji Yakusho's Cannes-winning, near-wordless lead turn.Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/news/coming-soon-fall-2026-preview/https://celluloidscore.com/news/coming-soon-fall-2026-preview/Selected cinema dates checked on 8 September 2026: Agensi Rumah Tangga in Indonesia, Sony’s Resident Evil date, and Marvel’s Avengers: Doomsday date. Local availability still varies.Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTComing SoonNewsKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/stranger-things-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/stranger-things-review/Stranger Things is the Duffer Brothers' 1980s sci-fi horror saga set in small-town Indiana. Its young cast gives the homage real heart, even as the scale balloons.Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/jackass-best-and-last-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/jackass-best-and-last-review/Jackass: Best and Last is the crew's billed farewell, a stunt-and-prank comedy that still makes you wince but lands on a surprisingly affectionate note.Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/jangan-buang-ibu-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/jangan-buang-ibu-review/Jangan Buang Ibu is an Indonesian family drama about a mother abandoned by her children, lifted by Nirina Zubir's raw performance and a welcome sense of restraint.Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/lucky-strike-2026-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/lucky-strike-2026-review/Lucky Strike is Rod Lurie's Battle of the Bulge survival thriller, with Scott Eastwood as an officer trapped behind German lines. It is capable but predictable.Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/squid-game-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/squid-game-review/Squid Game is Hwang Dong-hyuk's Korean survival thriller about debt and deadly children's games. Season 1 is superb; the two later seasons are grimmer and less focused.Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/news/best-world-cinema-2026/https://celluloidscore.com/news/best-world-cinema-2026/From Kurosawa's Seven Samurai to Bong Joon-ho's Parasite and Payal Kapadia's All We Imagine as Light — the highest-rated international films on Celluloid, updated for late July 2026.Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTWorld CinemaNewsKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-crown-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-crown-review/The Crown is Peter Morgan's lavish Netflix drama about Elizabeth II's reign, a six-season study of duty's personal cost with three superb actors in the lead role.Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/leviticus-2026-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/leviticus-2026-review/Leviticus is Adrian Chiarella's Australian queer horror debut, in which two teenage boys face a monstrous force unleashed by conversion therapy. Tender and angry.Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/peaky-blinders-the-immortal-man-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/peaky-blinders-the-immortal-man-review/Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man brings Cillian Murphy's Tommy Shelby back for a brooding wartime crime film, a handsome send-off built for the show's fans.Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/news/how-the-celluloid-score-works/https://celluloidscore.com/news/how-the-celluloid-score-works/Is Celluloid Score legit? How the four-input composite is calculated, why audience ratings are excluded, the Hindi reliability pass, vs Rotten Tomatoes, and who should skip it.Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTGuideNewsKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/people-we-meet-on-vacation-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/people-we-meet-on-vacation-review/People We Meet on Vacation is Brett Haley's friends-to-lovers romcom from Emily Henry's novel, lifted by Emily Bader and Tom Blyth but cautious in its storytelling.Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/mexico-86-2026-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/mexico-86-2026-review/México 86 is Gabriel Ripstein's satire of how Mexico landed the 1986 World Cup, with Diego Luna as a bluffing bureaucrat. It is breezy and well cast but too polite.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-furious-2026-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-furious-2026-review/The Furious is Kenji Tanigaki's hard-hitting martial arts thriller starring Xie Miao and Joe Taslim, a rescue mission with superb fights and a thin story.Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/cape-fear-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/cape-fear-review/Cape Fear (2026) turns the classic revenge thriller into a 10-episode Apple TV+ series; Javier Bardem's Max Cady is unforgettable, even when the story overreaches.Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/backrooms-2026-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/backrooms-2026-review/The Backrooms is Kane Parsons's feature debut, a liminal-space horror film that turns an internet legend into slow-burning dread rooted in grief and neglect.Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/epic-elvis-presley-in-concert-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/epic-elvis-presley-in-concert-review/Epic: Elvis Presley in Concert is Baz Luhrmann's documentary built from restored 1970s Las Vegas footage. It makes Elvis the performer thrillingly present again.Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/five-friends-2-mount-klawih-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/five-friends-2-mount-klawih-review/Five Friends 2: Mount Klawih sends Bayu Skak's bickering gang up a new haunted mountain in a warm, well-cast horror-comedy sequel that sticks close to the original.Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/pressure-2026-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/pressure-2026-review/Pressure is Anthony Maras's Second World War drama about the forecast behind D-Day, with Andrew Scott as a stubborn meteorologist and Brendan Fraser as Eisenhower.Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/silent-friend-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/silent-friend-review/Silent Friend is Ildikó Enyedi's patient, luminous drama about three people across a century drawn to one tree, with Tony Leung, Léa Seydoux and Luna Wedler.Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/perfect-crown-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/perfect-crown-review/Perfect Crown is a 12-episode Korean royal rom-com in which an heiress proposes a contract marriage to a prince; IU and Byeon Woo-seok's star power outpaces its script.Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/is-god-is-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/is-god-is-review/Is God Is is Aleshea Harris's screen version of her own play: a Southern Gothic revenge road trip that is ferocious, mythic and startlingly funny.Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/obsession-2026-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/obsession-2026-review/Obsession is Curry Barker's darkly funny horror romance about a lovesick clerk whose wish for a co-worker's devotion comes true, then curdles into something monstrous.Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/i-love-boosters-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/i-love-boosters-review/I Love Boosters is Boots Riley's absurdist comedy about a crew of professional shoplifters, a wild, funny satire of fashion, shopping and wanting more.Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-sheep-detectives-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-sheep-detectives-review/The Sheep Detectives is a charming English village mystery in which a flock investigates its shepherd's death, a family comedy with a real whodunit underneath.Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/rose-2026-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/rose-2026-review/Rose is Markus Schleinzer's austere black-and-white drama set after the Thirty Years' War, with Sandra Hüller superb as a woman living as a man to claim an estate.Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-devil-wears-prada-2-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-devil-wears-prada-2-review/The Devil Wears Prada 2 reunites Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt nearly two decades on, a polished, enjoyable sequel that trades bite for warmth.Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/lord-of-the-flies-2026-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/lord-of-the-flies-2026-review/Lord of the Flies (2026) is Jack Thorne's limited-series take on Golding's novel: handsome and thoughtful, though never free of a story everyone already knows.Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/widows-bay-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/widows-bay-review/Widow's Bay is Katie Dippold's Apple TV+ horror-comedy in which Matthew Rhys plays a mayor pitching tourists a cursed New England island, and it is sharp and scary.Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/michael-2026-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/michael-2026-review/Michael is Antoine Fuqua's authorized Michael Jackson biopic, electric whenever Jaafar Jackson performs and cautious to the point of timidity everywhere else.Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/rose-of-nevada-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/rose-of-nevada-review/Rose of Nevada is Mark Jenkin's handmade Cornish folk sci-fi, in which George MacKay and Callum Turner crew a lost boat and slip thirty years into the past.Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ghost-in-the-cell-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/ghost-in-the-cell-review/Ghost in the Cell is Joko Anwar's gory Indonesian prison horror-comedy, in which an unseen killer forces gangs and guards into an uneasy truce, with satire to spare.Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/blue-heron-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/blue-heron-review/Blue Heron is Sophy Romvari's autofictional Canadian drama about a family's hidden wounds on Vancouver Island, a quiet, precise film about memory and grief.Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/power-ballad-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/power-ballad-review/Power Ballad is John Carney's warm Dublin music comedy-drama in which Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas are bound together by a hit song and the question of who wrote it.Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/allegro-pastell-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/allegro-pastell-review/Allegro Pastell adapts Leif Randt's cult novel about a long-distance millennial couple: stylish and faithful in tone, but so cool it keeps its heart at a distance.Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/margos-got-money-troubles-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/margos-got-money-troubles-review/Margo's Got Money Troubles is Apple TV+'s dramedy with Elle Fanning as a broke young mother who starts an OnlyFans. Funny, frank and full of stubborn love.Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/nouvelle-vague-2026-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/nouvelle-vague-2026-review/Nouvelle Vague is Richard Linklater's buoyant French-language comedy about Jean-Luc Godard shooting Breathless in 1959 Paris, a love letter to making films on nerve.Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-drama-2026-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-drama-2026-review/The Drama is Kristoffer Borgli's romantic black comedy starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson as a couple whose wedding week is upended by one confession.Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/how-to-get-to-heaven-from-belfast-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/how-to-get-to-heaven-from-belfast-review/How to Get to Heaven from Belfast is Lisa McGee's eight-episode Netflix comedy-thriller, in which three old friends reunite for a funeral that spirals into murder.Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-return-of-arinzo-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-return-of-arinzo-review/The Return of Arinzo is Iyabo Ojo's star-packed Nollywood sequel about a woman who resurfaces as her husband runs for president, a thriller that never finds its focus.Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/kible-bitlisli-belkis-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/kible-bitlisli-belkis-review/Kıble: Bitlisli Belkıs is Turkish folk horror about orphaned sisters and a healer said to speak with djinn. Its distinctive folklore is let down by stock scares.Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/our-hero-balthazar-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/our-hero-balthazar-review/Our Hero, Balthazar is Oscar Boyson's prickly dark comedy about a privileged New York teen chasing a heroic role, with Jaeden Martell and Asa Butterfield.Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/nirvanna-the-band-the-show-the-movie-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/nirvanna-the-band-the-show-the-movie-review/Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie takes Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol's cult Toronto mockumentary to the big screen: fearless, ridiculous and often hilarious.Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/catli-2026-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/catli-2026-review/Çatlı is Deniz Enyüksek's polished Turkish biopic of Abdullah Çatlı's years in European exile, anchored by Vedat İnceefe but too sympathetic to its subject.Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/psicopata-conejo-blanco-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/psicopata-conejo-blanco-review/Psicópata: El Asesino del Conejo Blanco is a Mexican serial-killer thriller with interesting ideas about trauma, undone by a muddled script and a clashing villain.Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/tunggu-aku-sukses-nanti-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/tunggu-aku-sukses-nanti-review/Perbandingan ulasan Tunggu Aku Sukses Nanti: pujian untuk Ardit Erwandha, perdebatan tentang penyuntingan dan cara film memandang tekanan keluarga.Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTeditorialReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/danur-the-last-chapter-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/danur-the-last-chapter-review/Danur: The Last Chapter sends Prilly Latuconsina's Risa back to her ghosts one final time, with a few creepy scenes lost in an overstuffed franchise mythology.Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/project-hail-mary-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/project-hail-mary-review/Project Hail Mary is Phil Lord and Christopher Miller's adaptation of Andy Weir's novel, with Ryan Gosling as a teacher sent to save the Sun and a friendship at its core.Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/dhurandhar-the-revenge-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/dhurandhar-the-revenge-review/Dhurandhar: The Revenge is Aditya Dhar's nearly four-hour Hindi spy sequel, a maximalist revenge epic powered by Ranveer Singh and relentless, bloody set pieces.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/socias-por-accidente-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/socias-por-accidente-review/Socias por Accidente is a Mexican comedy about two women conned by the same man, lifted by Angelique Boyer and Bárbara de Regil but built from very familiar parts.Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/sirat-2026-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/sirat-2026-review/Sirāt is Oliver Laxe's overwhelming desert road movie, in which Sergi López's father follows ravers across Morocco in search of his missing daughter.Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/yellow-letters-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/yellow-letters-review/Yellow Letters is İlker Çatak's Golden Bear-winning drama about two Ankara theatre artists punished by the state, gripping at first and more schematic later.Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/hoppers-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/hoppers-review/Hoppers is Daniel Chong's Pixar comedy about a teenager who moves her mind into a robot beaver: a funny, heartfelt eco-adventure and a studio high point.Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/venganza-2026-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/venganza-2026-review/Venganza casts Omar Chaparro as a grieving special-forces veteran on a revenge mission; the Mexican action film's stunts impress, but its story runs on empty.Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/crime-101-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/crime-101-review/Crime 101 is Bart Layton's Los Angeles heist thriller from a Don Winslow story, a patient cat-and-mouse film with Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo and Halle Berry.Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/vier-minus-drei-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/vier-minus-drei-review/Vier minus drei adapts Barbara Pachl-Eberhart's memoir of losing her family, with Valerie Pachner superb as a hospital clown finding her way through grief.Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/quieres-ser-mi-novia-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/quieres-ser-mi-novia-review/¿Quieres ser mi novia? reunites Ludwika Paleta and Juanpa Zurita as an age-gap couple, but the Mexican sequel swaps real conflict for manufactured jealousy.Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/send-help-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/send-help-review/Send Help is Sam Raimi's nasty, funny survival horror-comedy in which Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien play an employee and her boss stranded on an island.Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/kanto-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/kanto-review/Kanto is Ensar Altay's Turkish drama about a woman with dementia who vanishes into the snow, a restrained, quietly devastating study of caregiving and family guilt.Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-christophers-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-christophers-review/The Christophers is Steven Soderbergh's dry chamber comedy-drama, pairing Ian McKellen's ageing painter with Michaela Coel's struggling artist to sharp effect.Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-kings-warden-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-kings-warden-review/The King's Warden is Jang Hang-jun's Joseon-era drama about a man ordered to guard a deposed king, a moving study of loyalty and conscience led by Yoo Hae-jin.Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/mutluyuz-mu-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/mutluyuz-mu-review/Mutluyuz Mu? is a Turkish family comedy sequel in which divorced parents fake a happy marriage for their daughter's holiday. A promising setup wasted on stale jokes.Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/lady-2026-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/lady-2026-review/Lady is Olive Nwosu's assured debut about a Lagos cab driver drawn into a circle of women working the city's nightlife. A vivid study of friendship and survival.Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-secret-agent-2026-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-secret-agent-2026-review/The Secret Agent is Kleber Mendonça Filho's sprawling 1970s Brazilian thriller, with Wagner Moura as a hunted man in Recife and a city alive with rumour and dread.Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/efesin-sirri-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/efesin-sirri-review/Efes'in Sırrı is a Turkish family fantasy in which two archaeologists are turned back into children at Ephesus. A charming hook, weakly developed.Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/alas-roban-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/alas-roban-review/Alas Roban is an Indonesian folklore horror about a mother and her blind daughter stranded on a haunted Java road: strong on mood, overstuffed with ideas.Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-rip-2026-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-rip-2026-review/The Rip is Joe Carnahan's Miami cop thriller about a narcotics team stuck with a record cash haul overnight, strongest on suspicion and weaker on its payoffs.Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/28-years-later-the-bone-temple-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/28-years-later-the-bone-temple-review/28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is Nia DaCosta's bold sequel, a stranger, more mythic chapter of the rage-virus saga carried by a superb Ralph Fiennes.Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/kardes-takimi-3-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/kardes-takimi-3-review/Kardeş Takımı 3 is the Turkish family spy comedy's billed finale, adding time travel to the formula but finding little new to do beyond slapstick and gadgets.Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/behind-the-scenes-2025-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/behind-the-scenes-2025-review/Behind the Scenes is Funke Akindele's record-breaking Nollywood drama about a generous businesswoman and the people using her. Relatable, but heavy-handed.Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-herd-2025-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/the-herd-2025-review/The Herd is Daniel Etim Effiong's tense Nigerian kidnapping thriller, in which a wedding party is seized on the road home: timely and gripping, if overstuffed.Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/my-fathers-shadow-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/my-fathers-shadow-review/My Father's Shadow is Akinola Davies Jr.'s tender debut about two boys spending a day in Lagos with their elusive father as Nigeria's 1993 election crisis unfolds.Tue, 23 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/22-bahnen-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/22-bahnen-review/22 Bahnen adapts Caroline Wahl's bestselling novel about a student raising her little sister. Luna Wedler is excellent, but the film is tidier than its material.Mon, 08 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khanhttps://celluloidscore.com/reviews/sound-of-falling-review/https://celluloidscore.com/reviews/sound-of-falling-review/Sound of Falling is Mascha Schilinski's Cannes Jury Prize winner, a haunting German drama that braids four girlhoods in one farmhouse across a century.Tue, 02 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMTcriticReviewKaiser Khan