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The Raid

September 2017

  • courtney pine outside at the southbank centre london

    On my radar
    On my radar: Courtney Pine’s cultural highlights

    The jazz pioneer on Mass Effect: Andromeda, Watford boxing star Anthony Joshua, Notting Hill carnival’s Panorama and a lovely frittata

February 2013

  • Burt Lancaster, centre, in Ulzana's Raid, written by Alan Sharp

    Alan Sharp obituary

    Swashbuckling screenwriter behind Rob Roy, Ulzana's Raid and Night Moves

September 2012

  • The Raid

    Mark Kermode's DVD round-up
    Mark Kermode's DVD round-up

    The Raid, a martial-arts thriller set in a Jakartan tower block, punches above its weight

May 2012

  • The Raid: Redemption

    The Raid – review

    Violence and corruption drive Gareth Evans's unrelenting Jakarta-set thriller, writes Philip French

  • The Raid - Iko Uwais

    The Raid – review

    This violent, intense and brilliant bulletfest from Indonesia puts western action movies to shame, writes Peter Bradshaw
  • Gareth Huw Evans

    The Raid: how a Welsh director rocked the world of Asian action cinema

    Gareth Huw Evans' new film pits an elite Jakarta police unit against an entire towerblock of baddies. It's fast, violent and daring, like the best of the genre

January 2012

  • The Raid, Sundance

    First look review
    Sundance 2012: The Raid - review

    West meets east in an action-packed gangster-and-martial-arts thriller that could teach Quentin Tarantino a few things about creating a cult hit, writes Damon Wise