Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) Review: The Art of Looking
★★★★½
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.
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★★★★½
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.
★★★★☆
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.
★★★★½
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.
★★★★☆
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.
★★★½☆
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.
★★★☆☆
Project: High Council is a Malaysian boarding-school thriller about a secret student council ruling through bullying and blackmail; angry and bold, but uneven.
★★★★½
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.
★★★★★
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.
★★★½☆
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.
★★★½☆
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.
★★★★½
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.
★★★★☆
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.
★★★½☆
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.
★★★★½
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.
★★★★½
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.
★★★★½
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.
★★★★½
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.
★★★½☆
Recep Ivedik unleashes Şahan Gökbakar's boorish, beloved creation on a trip to Antalya, a crude Turkish comedy that became a pop-culture phenomenon.
★★★★☆
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.
★★★☆☆
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.
★★★★½
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.
★★★★☆
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.
★★★★☆
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.
★★★½☆
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.