“Above all, Train Dreams is the tale of the end of one era and the dawning of another, as the land of Emerson, Thoreau and Frost bleeds into that of Steinbeck, Evans and Agee.” Catherine Wheatley reviews. Out now. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

With Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love out now, we revisit the director’s second feature Morvern Callar, a modern-day fairytale infused with music, magic and metamorphosis www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

“Daniel Day-Lewis throughout feels like glimpsing someone in public in the aftermath of a fight or a cry; he bristles with the real” @nicolasrapold.bsky.social reviews Anemone. Out now. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

“When I wrote The Running Man, 2025 seemed so far in the future that I couldn’t even grasp it in my mind” We bring together @stephenking.bsky.social and @edgarwright.bsky.social for an exclusive conversation, ahead of the release of Wright’s #RunningManMovie www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

“When I wrote The Running Man, 2025 seemed so far in the future that I couldn’t even grasp it in my mind” We bring together @stephenking.bsky.social and @edgarwright.bsky.social for an exclusive conversation, ahead of the release of Wright’s #RunningManMovie www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

“Above all, Train Dreams is the tale of the end of one era and the dawning of another, as the land of Emerson, Thoreau and Frost bleeds into that of Steinbeck, Evans and Agee.” Catherine Wheatley reviews. In cinemas today. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

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“The story is a thin, juddering downward spiral, told in the cinema of smithereens, with the energy of a bottle hurled at a mirror.” @jessicakiang.bsky.social reviews Die My Love, out Friday. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

“Palestine 36 addresses [Annemarie Jacir’s] trademark themes – identity, the weight of history – on a much larger scale, combining the conventions of classic period drama with a thorough unpacking of the geopolitical failures” Rachel Pronger reviews. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

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Riz Ahmed stars as Ash, a go-between for corporate whistleblowers, in Justin Piasecki and David Mackenzie’s smart surveillance conspiracy. Kim Newman reviews Relay, out now. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Peter Watkins, 1935-2025 The maverick filmmaker and pioneer of the docudrama, whose anti-establishment works redefined political cinema and challenged the very language of mass media, has died aged 90 www.bfi.org.uk/features/pet...

NEW ISSUE! 🧨 Action auteur Kathryn Bigelow on A House of Dynamite + Laura Mulvey, Jafar Panahi, Lynne Ramsay, Pillion, True Crime and more On sale now, out on Monday Get your copy: www.mmslondon.co.uk/shop/p/sight...

“Satire is arguably the most difficult mode to pull off in narrative, and Lanthimos has clearly mastered its blackest, most classic principles” Travis Jeppesen reviews Bugonia, out now. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

“Radu Jude continues with an ongoing project of including what might be referred to as the trash of life – the absurd indignities and intrusions of the modern condition” @nicolasrapold.bsky.social reviews Kontinental ’25, out Friday. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

“Guillermo del Toro joins the Frankencanon with a messy but gloriously visceral melodrama which understands that at its core Frankenstein is a cautionary tale about awful parenting” Catherine Bray reviews www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

“François Ozon’s The Stranger is a faithful adaptation of Albert Camus’s 1942 novella, yet with a subtle revisionist slant” Jonathan Romney reviews. Playing tonight at #LFF2025 www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

The final shot of Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s glorious, barbed 1950 masterpiece sneakily suggests that the real villain is not Eve Harrington herself but female ambition in general. By @jessicakiang.bsky.social www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

“One can only hope that this fantastic film finds the audiences most in need of its message.” Ben Nicholson reviews Souleymane’s Story, in cinemas tomorrow. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

The Film Society, a monthly miscellany staged at West End venues in London, began one century ago this month, and ran until 1939 Henry K Miller outlines seven ways it played a critical role in helping to define film as the seventh art www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

“One is tempted to call it a masterpiece” Read our review of The Secret Agent, playing at #LFF tonight, in association with Sight and Sound www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

“This is a tale of the fantastic, but rooted in the bleak political realities of 2020s Britain.” Jonathan Romney reviews Mark Jenkin’s Rose of Nevada, screening tonight at #LFF www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Good Boy “uses doggy-vision tricks – even dreams from a dog POV… It’s a good, quiet little horror film – a study in creeping dread rather than shocks” Kim Newman reviews. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

In a London Film Festival programme crammed with the best of new cinema from across the world, many films are still seeking a distributor for UK theatrical release Here, we select eight titles you might not get a chance to see anywhere else #LFF www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Five years after cheerfully transgressive midnight musical The Rocky Horror Picture Show was released, Jonathan Rosenbaum examined the growing trend for singalong event screenings of the film, seeing them as a resurrection of cinema as community www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

“It was dance as action rather than as aesthetics” As Billy Elliot turns 25, we revisit an interview with its director Stephen Daldry on the film’s political context, emotional rhythms and expressive physicality. From our October 2000 issue. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

“Without waggling an eyebrow or popping a pec, Dwayne Johnson is so damn good in Benny Safdie’s biopic of MMA pioneer Mark Kerr that you kind of want to take him apart to see how he does it” @jessicakiang.bsky.social reviews The Smashing Machine. Out Friday.

In Courtney Stephens and Callie Hernandez’s ethereal docufiction film, a young woman tries to learn more about her deceased father, starting with her only inheritance – his mysterious patent for a ‘healing device’. Dylan Huw reviews. Screening at ICA London. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

“At the age of 28, Dickinson has already established himself as a distinctive onscreen talent, and with this flawed but admirable film, he’s serving notice that his career behind the camera may be just as exciting to follow” Philip Concannon reviews. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

“This is a film about friendship, not fanaticism – a ride-or-die friendship, which saved the girls in the hostile UK, but which jeopardises them as the stakes get higher” Kate Stables reviews Brides, out now. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

“There’s so much to relish. The film has a Kubrickian satirical absurdism… DiCaprio’s Bob brings a broad slapstick haplessness to his midlife fallibility, on the run in plaid bath robe and grease-gathering hair” @nickkinocritic.bsky.social reviews. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

“While there’s nothing wrong with playing quixotic Gen-Z idealism for laughs, Sacrifice is finally too slick and preening to work up any real sense of anxiety over issues of personal or collective accountability” @brofromanother.bsky.social reviews. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

First-time director Usman Riaz explains how a pirate VHS tape of Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) sparked his love for animation and led to his own landmark hand-drawn feature, The Glassworker. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Max Porter, the author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers and Shy, discusses his new film with Cillian Murphy, the fine art of adaptation and the pleasurable ‘dry-stone walling’ of screenplay writing. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

“I have very little interest in the lighter side of storytelling”: As his new film Steve hits UK cinemas, actor Cillian Murphy explains why the richest work comes out of longstanding creative relationships. #CillianMurphy www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

“No one will miss the animation’s debt to the works of Studio Ghibli: [Usman Riaz] has clearly imbibed that influence, graphically and conceptually, and wears it on his sleeve” Nick Bradshaw reviews The Glassworker, Pakistan’s first hand-drawn animated feature www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

“The anxious tone, staccato pacing and underlying existential malaise of the whole thing is closer to Waiting for Godot than Walk the Line (2005)” @brofromanother.bsky.social reviews Ebony & Ivory, a Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder anti-biopic from Jim Hosking. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

“As a piece of filmmaking, Happyend is both impressively assured and perhaps a bit too deadpan for its own good.” @brofromanother.bsky.social reviews Neo Sora’s dystopian drama Happyend, out Friday. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Robert Redford, 1936-2025 In 2019, @christinalefou.bsky.social paid tribute to an actor who, in charismatic performances of immense restraint over more than half a century, blended traditionalism, predictability and inscrutability to great effect www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

In what might be his best acting role since Control (2007), Sam Riley stars as a tennis coach at a Fuerteventura resort who gets wrapped up in an absorbing missing person mystery. Tom Charity reviews Islands, out now. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

It’s like, how much more disappointed could you get? And the answer is… none. None more disappointed… As a devoted Tap-head, this isn’t at all the review I wanted to write but here are my thoughts on Spinal Tap II - The End Continues for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Seventeen years on from her mumblecore debut Yeast (2008), Mary Bronstein returns with an anxiety-inducing exploration of motherhood, starring Rose Byrne. @nicolasrapold.bsky.social reviews If I Had Legs I’d Kick You www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

A five-year-old girl in Taipei becomes convinced the devil is working through her left hand in Shih-Ching Tsou’s debut feature, an electric family drama co-written and edited by Sean Baker. @brofromanother.bsky.social reviews from #TIFF2025 www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

“It is tempting to set this alongside The Hurt Locker (2008) and Zero Dark Thirty (2012) as part of a ‘Fucking the World Up’ trilogy; but A House of Dynamite might be Bigelow’s crowning achievement” @www.johnbleasdale.com reviews www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Four characters in search of a narrative form: Ben Wheatley's mind-blowing multidimensional marvel BULK (2025) screens 9.35pm tonight at #MOTELX. This DIY 'reality quake' is one for all you cinematic psychonauts. Review for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

“Jarmusch’s new film is decidedly understated, accruing its force with a virtuoso’s ability to modulate dramatic notes and switch up perspectives on a theme of homecoming” @nicolasrapold.bsky.social reviews Golden Lion winner Father Mother Sister Brother #Venezia82 www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Coppa Volpi for Best Actor goes to #ToniServillo in La Grazia at #Venezia82. Read @www.johnbleasdale.com’s review of the film here: www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Benny Safdie has won the Silver Lion for Best Director with The Smashing Machine at #Venezia82 Read @jessicakiang.bsky.social’s review of the film here www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

“Without waggling an eyebrow or popping a pec, Dwayne Johnson is so damn good in Benny Safdie’s biopic of MMA pioneer Mark Kerr that you kind of want to take him apart to see how he does it” @jessicakiang.bsky.social reviews from #Venezia82 www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Steve, a new drama starring Cillian Murphy and directed by Tim Mielants had its world premiere yesterday at #TIFF50. Read our cover interview with the actor in the latest @sightsoundmag.bsky.social👇 👇 #CillianMurphy