Bylined reviews with verdicts and scores — most recently published or updated first. Showing 97–120 of 905 reviews.
★★★★☆
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.
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.
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.
★★★★☆
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.
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.
★★★★½
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.
★★★★½
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.
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.
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.
★★★★☆
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.
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.
★★★½☆
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.
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.
★★★★☆
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.
★★★★☆
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.
★★★½☆
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.
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.
★★★★☆
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.
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.
★★★★☆
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.
★★★★☆
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.
★★★★☆
Miracle (Mucize) is Mahsun Kırmızıgül's sentimental Turkish drama about a teacher posted to a remote eastern village. Heartfelt and handsome, if heavy-handed.
★★★★½
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.
★★★½☆
Nur is a two-season Malaysian romance about faith, redemption and community judgement, a compulsive and controversial melodrama that made its leads household names.
