Bylined reviews with verdicts and scores — most recently published or updated first. Showing 769–792 of 905 reviews.
★★★★½
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.
★★★★☆
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.
★★★★½
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.
★★★★☆
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.
★★★★½
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.
★★★★½
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.
★★★★½
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.
★★★★½
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.
★★★★½
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.
★★★★½
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.
★★★★½
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.
★★☆☆☆
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.
★★★★☆
The Man from Nowhere is a brutal Korean rescue thriller starring Won Bin as a withdrawn pawnbroker, with ferocious fights and a surprisingly tender centre.
★★★★½
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.
★★★★★
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.
★★★★☆
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.
★★★★½
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.
★★★½☆
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.
★★★½☆
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.
★★★★☆
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.
★★★★½
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.
★★★½☆
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.
★★★★☆
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.
★★★★½
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.
