Sight and Sound

29/12/2025

No filmmaker has been as preoccupied as Cronenberg by flesh and the many ways it can be transformed. In his latest film, the 82-year-old looks at the last transformation flesh undergoes, through the story of a tech entrepreneur who invents a system for observing the dead in their coffins. Here, he talks about death, film and conspiracy in the digital age

No filmmaker has been as preoccupied as Cronenberg by flesh and the many ways it can be transformed. In his latest film, the 82-year-old looks at the last transformation flesh undergoes, through the story of a tech entrepreneur who invents a system for observing the dead in their coffins. Here, he t...

28/12/2025

Brigitte Bardot, 1934-2025

28/12/2025

Harry Lighton’s electrifying feature debut, the romantic comedy drama Pillion, explores the brutality and tenderness of a B**M love affair between a nerdy traffic warden and a hunky motorbike rider. He talks about his conversion to cinephilia, steering clear of classic biker movies and the thrill of the film’s triumphant reception

Harry Lighton’s electrifying feature debut, the romantic comedy drama Pillion, explores the brutality and tenderness of a B**M love affair between a nerdy traffic warden and a hunky motorbike rider. He talks about his conversion to cinephilia, steering clear of classic biker movies and the thrill ...

28/12/2025

“Careful the things you say; children will listen. That’s the well-trodden and evocative theme of Shih-Ching Tsou’s solo debut feature”

Adam Nayman reviews Left-Handed Girl, now streaming. https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/reviews/left-handed-girl-a-taiwanese-comedy-with-wild-whirling-sense-momentum

27/12/2025

“Chalamet makes for a perfect li’l stinker, challenging and taunting the world. Reining in his screen idol smile, he folds himself into Marty’s one-step-forward-two-steps-back quest for victory and respectability”

Nicolas Rapold reviews Marty Supreme, out now. https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/reviews/marty-supreme-timothee-chalamet-perfect-bratty-ping-pong-hustler

27/12/2025

Steven Soderbergh’s smart, fun spy thriller Black Bag is the kind of mid-budget, star-led adult entertainment that has become an endangered species in cinemas. Here the director explains why the box office is so hard to predict these days, why he has always been fascinated by duplicity and how he built his career filming “two people in a room”

Steven Soderbergh’s smart, fun spy thriller Black Bag is the kind of mid-budget, star-led adult entertainment that has become an endangered species in cinemas. Here the director explains why the box office is so hard to predict these days, why he has always been fascinated by duplicity and how he ...

26/12/2025

Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind offers a fresh spin on the crime caper movie in a tale of a deadbeat thief planning a snatch-and-grab raid on an art gallery in 1970. The director explains why this is “more of a coming-undone film than a heist film” and how her impulse to question genre norms helps her uncover new ways of thinking

Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind offers a fresh spin on the crime caper movie in a tale of a deadbeat thief planning a snatch-and-grab raid on an art gallery in 1970. The director explains why this is “more of a coming-undone film than a heist film” and how her impulse to question genre norms ...

25/12/2025

It’s a time for sharing, so in a spirit of goodwill to all cinephiles, a dozen directors, including Guillermo del Toro, Wes Anderson, Alice Rohrwacher, Luna Carmoon and Steven Soderbergh, choose their favourite Christmas films

It’s a time for sharing, so in a spirit of goodwill to all cinephiles, a dozen directors, including Guillermo del Toro, Wes Anderson, Alice Rohrwacher, Luna Carmoon and Steven Soderbergh, choose their favourite Christmas films.

24/12/2025

Timothée Chalamet is perfect as a bratty ping pong hustler in Marty Supreme, a never-say-die American story that’s bursting with humour and that trademark Safdie kineticism.

Nicolas Rapold. Out 26 Dec. https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/reviews/marty-supreme-timothee-chalamet-perfect-bratty-ping-pong-hustler

24/12/2025

The Phoenician Scheme returns Wes Anderson to the straightforward pleasures of the caper movie. He talks about writing the film for its star, Benicio del Toro, his fascination with charismatic, powerful men, and the influence of Luis Buñuel’s late movies

The Phoenician Scheme returns Wes Anderson to the straightforward pleasures of the caper movie. He talks about writing the film for its star, Benicio del Toro, his fascination with charismatic, powerful men, and the influence of Luis Buñuel’s late movies.

23/12/2025

Inspired by his experience of being interrogated in prison in Iran, Jafar Panahi's Palme d'Or-winning It Was Just an Accident feels like the dissident filmmaker's most direct attack on the regime to date. Here he discusses underground filmmaking, his refusal to submit to oppression and the social movement transforming his country.

Inspired by his experience of being interrogated in prison in Iran, Jafar Panahi's Palme d'Or-winning It Was Just an Accident feels like the dissident filmmaker's most direct attack on the regime to date. Here he discusses underground filmmaking, his refusal to submit to oppression and the social mo...

22/12/2025

Joachim Trier's melancholy, playful film, which examines the reckoning that takes place between a selfish film director and his estranged daughters in the wake of their mother's death, is exquisitely attuned to the emotional landscape of a single family and its crippling antagonisms.