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

“La Grazia is [Paolo] Sorrentino turned down from eleven to six and with the volume more bearable, we can actually hear what he’s saying” @www.johnbleasdale.com reviews from #Venezia82 www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave follow-up takes a more chaotic path with the story of an unemployed family man who tries to game the ailing job market by offing his competitors. @nicolasrapold.bsky.social reviews from #VeniceFilmFestival2025 www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

NEW ISSUE ALERT Cillian Murphy on his approach to acting, the importance of storytelling and his new film, Steve. + interviews with Harris Dickinson, Lucrecia Martel and Ari Aster Get your copy now: www.mmslondon.co.uk/shop/p/sight... Find out what's inside: www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

“Roberts is certainly game to rein in her natural luminosity and likeability for a role designed to showcase her range. Other characters contort their psychology into highly unlikely shapes” @jessicakiang.bsky.social reviews After the Hunt at #VeniceFilmFestival2025 www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

COMPETITION TIME! To celebrate the home entertainment release of The Phoenician Scheme, we’re giving away 3 Blu-ray copies of it. To enter, send [email protected] the name of the film Wes Anderson called “The tycoon movie of all tycoon movies” UK postage only.

Locarno prize winner Two Seasons, Two Strangers delivers “a wittily bifurcated story that shares with Miyake Sho’s previous charmers a sensitivity to the dynamics of interactions between introverts" @jessicakiang.bsky.social reviews www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

NEW ISSUE ALERT Cillian Murphy on his approach to acting, the importance of storytelling and his new film, Steve. + interviews with Harris Dickinson, Lucrecia Martel and Ari Aster Get your copy now: www.mmslondon.co.uk/shop/p/sight... Find out what's inside: www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

“This may be a film packed with violent acts, but it’s styled as a piece of pure entertainment, a fast-paced caper that is rarely allowed to stand still long enough for a sombre mood to settle” Philip Concannon reviews Caught Stealing, out Friday. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

The Romanian director combines three hours of sketches, cabaret, comedy and AI morphing imagery for his riff on the Dracula myth – the film is so ironically aloof, it’s hard to pin down. @www.johnbleasdale.com reviews Radu Jude’s Dracula from #locarno78 www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

“The Life of Chuck suggests that Mike Flanagan has become Stephen King’s most sympathetic interpreter on film, in tune with his late narratives of bittersweet attempts to grab momentary joy” @theprofrog.bsky.social reviews The Life of Chuck, out now. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

“Pitched between Christopher Smith’s looping Triangle (2009) and Graham Hughes’ Hostile Dimensions (2023), the wonderfully inventive, self-referential Bulk creates the universe(s) from nothing” @antbit.projectedfigures.com reviews Ben Wheatley’s Bulk #EIFF2025 www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

"a multiverse sci-fi starring four characters in search of a narrative form": Ben Wheatley's self-making, self-referential BULK (2025) shows the workings of its fractured DIY worlds. World première at Edinburgh Film Festival. Review for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

“With this film, Victor inhabits the naked uncertainty that hangs in the air after a punchline, and asks us to join them there” Katie McCabe reviews Eva Victor’s Sorry, Baby. In UK cinemas Friday. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

“The metaphor of attachment finally isn’t just about visualising co-dependence; what gets under your skin is Tim and Millie’s fear that they’re forgetting how to be close at all” @nicolasrapold.bsky.social reviews Together, out now. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

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

“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. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

“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” @annodracula.bsky.social reviews Weapons. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

“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. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

“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” @nickkinocritic.bsky.social reviews Savages. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

“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. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

"Taking a leaf from Roland Barthes, Haugerud vividly captures the dizzying highs and lows of first love" @josephfahim.bsky.social reviews Dreams (Sex Love), the final film in Dag Johan Haugerud’s Oslo Stories trilogy. Out Friday. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

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. @annodracula.bsky.social reviews Bring Her Back, out now. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

“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” @nicolasrapold.bsky.social reviews 2,000 Meters to Andriivka, out Friday www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

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 Available on newsstands and at www.mmslondon.co.uk/shop/p/sight... now

“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” @brofromanother.bsky.social reviews Zero, out now. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

I had the pleasure of reviewing Kate Bush's anti-war animation LITTLE SHREW (SNOWFLAKE) for this issue's short film spotlight. Yes, that Kate Bush.

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 mor See what's inside: bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so... Get your copy: www.mmslondon.co.uk/shop/p/sight...

“Playing Professor Reed Richards, Pedro Pascal furrows his brow soulfully while his limbs elongate into CGI spaghetti; it’s the perfect visual for a very busy actor whose charisma has recently been stretched dangerously thin” @brofromanother.bsky.social reviews www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Debut director Saule Bliuvaite contrasts the bleakness of a Lithuanian town with the hopes of young teens who get involved with a sinister modelling agency in this richly cinematic Locarno prizewinner. Stephanie Bunbury reviews Toxic, out this Friday www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

This week, a new restoration of Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep will play at Cinema Rediscovered In our July 2002 issue, Burnett recalled his discouraging school years, his experience at an anarchic UCLA, and the eventual release of his thesis film, Killer of Sheep www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

“That Harvest is an allegory is clear, but focusing on contemporary resonances risks obscuring its power as multi-sensory filmmaking” @rachelpronger.bsky.social reviews Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Harvest, out now. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

“Director Andrew DeYoung wields Tim Robinson’s strained temperament and aptitude for hysteria and self-debasement like a switchblade” Saffron Maeve reviews Friendship, in UK cinemas today. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...