Bylined reviews with verdicts and scores — most recently published or updated first. Showing 625–648 of 905 reviews.
★★★★☆
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.
★★★★½
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.
★★★★☆
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.
★★★★☆
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.
★★★★½
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.
★★★½☆
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.
★★★★½
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.
★★★★½
Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno sends Takeru Satoh's wandering swordsman to stop Tatsuya Fujiwara's Shishio, a bigger, darker Japanese action sequel.
★★★★½
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.
★★★★★
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.
★★★★½
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.
★★★★½
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.
★★★★☆
Sabaat is a polished Pakistani Urdu romance set in contemporary Karachi, where love, marriage and class pressure collide; stylish, addictive and a little overlong.
★★★★☆
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.
★★★☆☆
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.
★★★☆☆
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.
★★★½☆
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.
★★★★½
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.
★★★★☆
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.
★★★★½
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.
★★★½☆
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.
★★★★½
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.
★★★★½
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.
★★★★☆
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.
