Sight and Sound

12/08/2025

“In Materialists, the complications and psychology are class-based, and Song strives accordingly for screwball velocity, but the dialogue keeps missing the strike zone”

Adam Nayman reviews.

Celine Song’s second feature starring Dakota Johnson as a matchmaker for rich New Yorkers aims for screwball velocity, but the dialogue keeps missing the mark.

10/08/2025

“This assured directorial debut from Shoshannah Stern offers an intimate look at the life and career of Marlee Matlin, the first Deaf actor to win an Academy Award”

Peter Adams reviews Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore, out now.

Director Shoshannah Stern’s documentary about Marlee Matlin, the first deaf actor to win an Oscar, offers thought-provoking insights into the history of disability inclusion (and exclusion) in…

08/08/2025

“Zach Cregger’s follow-up to Barbarian (2022) is deliberately tricky, with the kind of ending which in the theatre would require the lead actor to take a curtain call and request the audience not give it away to friends”

Kim Newman reviews Weapons.

All but one child from the same Pennsylvania elementary school class disappears overnight in this twisty creeper from Barbarian director Zach Cregger.

07/08/2025

“If all The Naked Gun’s expertly executed gags and heroically numbskulled exchanges aren’t enough to save Hollywood comedy, then surely nothing can”

Jason Anderson reviews The Naked Gun, out now.

Akiva Schaffer’s police-procedural reboot is refreshingly silly and expertly paced, with Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson fully committing to the bit.

04/08/2025

“Claude Barras’s follow-up to his justly celebrated 2016 debut My Life as a Courgette shares with that film a commitment to placing its big-eyed, brightly painted clay-model innocents in dark corners of the real world”

Nick Bradshaw reviews Savages.

An 11-year-old rescues an orangutan orphaned by loggers in Claude Barras’s unsurprising but vibrantly designed follow-up to 2016 hit My Life as a Courgette.

03/08/2025

“The film’s compression of such a range of emotional states into a tightly edited 92 minutes can feel nerve-wracking and suffocating”

Phil Concannon reviews work drama Late Shift, out now.

Director Petra Biondina Volpe captures the chaos and pressure of a night shift at an understaffed hospital in a cinematic tribute to nurses that’s elevated by the unflashy skill of Leonie Benesch.

31/07/2025

"Taking a leaf from Roland Barthes, Haugerud vividly captures the dizzying highs and lows of first love"

Joseph Fahim reviews Dreams (S*x Love), the final film in Dag Johan Haugerud’s Oslo Stories trilogy. Out Friday.

Norwegian director Dag Johan Haugerud’s rich trilogy of films exploring modern relationships concludes beautifully with the story of Johanne, a 17-year-old who grapples with her unrequited love for…

30/07/2025

Two siblings are taken into the care of Laura, a foster parent obsessed with bringing her deceased child back to life, in Danny and Michael Philippou’s impressive follow-up to 2022’s Talk to Me.

Kim Newman reviews Bring Her Back, out now.

Two siblings are taken into the care of Laura, a foster parent obsessed with bringing her deceased child back to life, in Danny and Michael Philippou’s impressive follow-up to 2022’s Talk to Me.

29/07/2025

“With his two documentary features about the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, Mstyslav Chernov has established himself as a leading cinematic chronicler of modern warfare”

Nicolas Rapold reviews 2,000 Meters to Andriivka, out Friday

Mstyslav Chernov’s harrowing follow-up to his documentary 20 Days in Mariupol recognises the bravery of Ukraine soldiers, but is clear-eyed about the queasy absurdity of war.

28/07/2025

NEW SPECIAL EDITION OUT NOW

Our 2022 poll results, available in print again after the sell-out original issue. Featuring every poll introduction from 1952 to date, together for the first time

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27/07/2025

“A little bit of Speed (1994), a little bit of Saw (2004), a lot of sweaty stunt performers; in a movie that wears its transnational aspirations proudly, [Willem] Dafoe provides some brand-name gravitas”

Adam Naymanreviews Zero, out now.

The Congolese director blends a bit of Speed (1994) and Saw (2004) for a lightweight but exciting story of two unlucky Americans who wake up in Dakar with bombs strapped to their chests.

25/07/2025

NEW ISSUE: more of the greatest films you’ve never seen

As chosen by Alice Rohrwacher, Steven Soderbergh, Jane Schoenbrun, Mike Leigh, Asif Kapadia, Amy Taubin and many more

Out for subscribers on Monday, on newsstands from Thursday

See what's inside: https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/news/sight-sound-september-2025-issue

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