Our latest publication
The magazine
-
Sight & Sound: the Summer 2020 issue
Bumper anime special: 50 key anime films from Akira to Your Name and more. Plus Covid-19 lockdown diaries and testimonies; Ozark; COI public information films; and Spike Lee on Da 5 Bloods.
-
Buy a Sight & Sound subscription
Subscribe today – in print and/or digital – and discover the world’s best cinema.
-
Sight & Sound back issues, annual index and archive
Find out more about previous issues of the International Film Magazine (since 1932!), and how to access them.
-
Frequently asked questions about subscriptions and contributing to the magazine.
-
The Digital Edition and Archive quick link
Log in here to your digital edition and archive subscription, take a look at the packages on offer and buy a subscription.
The Weekly Film Bulletin
Latest reviews
-
Alice review: a Paris wife finds empowerment and revenge in sex work
Emilie Piponnier’s compelling lead performance is at the heart of Josephine Mackerras’s intriguing, feminist debut feature, writes Nadine Deller.
Thursday 23 July 2020 -
How to Build a Girl review: Caitlin Moran’s inky path to media stardom
Beanie Feldstein stars as a loud, precocious teenager from Wolverhampton who reinvents herself as an acid-penned rock critic in this bubbly autobiographical caper, writes Hannah McGill. Sounds familiar…
Thursday 23 July 2020 -
Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles review: a rudimentary animated making-of
Salvador Simó’s concise animation walks us through the creative crisis behind Luis Buñuel’s first solo film (and only documentary), Land Without Bread, without many creative leaps of its own, finds Greg de Cuir, Jr.
Monday 20 July 2020 -
Clemency review: death row walls in Alfre Woodard’s warden
Chinonye Chukwu’s spare, unsparing prison drama cuts to the heart of the injustice and inhumanity of America’s death penalty, writes Nikki Baughan.
Friday 17 July 2020 -
Da 5 Bloods review: Spike Lee brings the Vietnam War home
Lee’s bravura, brakeneck war drama follows the blood line of America’s racial wrongs, from the Civil Rights era to Black Lives Matter, writes Kaleem Aftab.
Monday 20 July 2020 -
The best films now on UK streaming services
Looking for the best new cinema releases available on British VOD platforms? Here’s our guide to how to keep up with the latest movies while you’re self-isolating.
From our archives
-
“We have to study you in order to survive”: Horace Ové on Black and white Britain
In the December 1987 issue of the Monthly Film Bulletin, the director of the UK’s first Black feature film tells Sylvia Paskin what he’s learnt about living and making films in the UK.
Friday 17 July 2020 -
A rage in Harlesden: Stuart Hall on Babymother, Britain’s first dancehall drama
In this piece from our September 1998 issue, the great cultural theorist Stuart Hall toasts Babymother, Julien Henriques’s film set within the vibrant UK dancehall scene.
Thursday 16 July 2020 -
“Everybody lives differently”: Debbie Tucker Green on Second Coming (for Who We Are.)
The playwright turned filmmaker talks to Ashley Clark about ambiguity, music and language, and working with ‘more zeroes’ on her feature debut.
Wednesday 15 July 2020 -
Burning illusions: the long road to Black British film stardom
To mark the Who We Are. takeover of the BFI’s online channels this week, we’re republishing a series of stories from our archives about Black British film past and present – starting with Ashley Clark’s 2016 look at the historical paucity of roles for Black actors in British films.
Wednesday 14 December 2016 -
Alfred Hitchcock: my own methods
In this article written by the Master of Suspense himself for our Summer 1937 issue, Alfred Hitchcock dissects how he puts together his thrillers, and reflects on the possibilities and limitations of popular cinema.
Wednesday 1 July 2020 -
Pan person: Guillermo del Toro talks to Mark Kermode about Pan’s Labyrinth
In this feature from our December 2006 issue, Guillermo del Toro talks to Mark Kermode about creating the vivid fantasy world, set in contrast to the bloody endgame of the Spanish Civil War and seen through the eyes of a young girl, for his acclaimed feature Pan’s Labyrinth.
Thursday 25 June 2020
See all our polls and surveys
Polls and surveys
-
The best films of 2019 – all the votes
We asked 100 contributors – British and international – to pick the ten best new films they’d seen in 2019. Their choices are here – all 353 of them!
Monday 23 December 2019 -
What were the movies like in the 2010s? We offer you 26 takes on the decade.
Sunday 2 February 2020 -
The 100 Greatest Films of All Time
In our biggest ever film critics’ poll, the list of best movies ever made has a new top film, ending the 50-year reign of Citizen Kane.
Wednesday 1 August 2012 -
The Greatest Documentaries of All Time poll
What are the greatest documentaries ever made? We polled 340 critics, programmers and filmmakers in the search for authoritative answers.
All Sight & Sound articles
More recent stories from Sight & Sound
See all our videos
Video
-
Frequently asked questions about subscriptions and contributing to the magazine.