Sight and Sound magazine

NEW SPECIAL ISSUE 💥 The art of acting, featuring new interviews with Wagner Moura, Jodie Foster, Renate Reinsve, Kim Novak, Jessie Buckley, Daniel Day-Lewis and more PLUS: cinema's greatest performances, as chosen by Jacob Elordi, Jennifer Lawrence, Oscar Isaac, Ayo Edebiri and more

Starring Theo James and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, David Mackenzie’s deftly edited crime caper sees a group of men attempt to rob a bank while the military and police are busy defusing a bomb. Gayle Sequeira reviews Fuze, out Friday. bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…

Anchored in the dystopian prose of George Orwell, Raoul Peck’s film traces the genesis of his seminal novel and its connections to our present-day reality, using montage to convey its self-evident thesis. Abiba Coulibaly reviews Orwell: 2+2=5. bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…

Danger lurks around every corner in Sergei Loznitsa’s deliberately drawn-out story of a local Soviet prosecutor seeking truth in a system designed to suppress it. Michael Brooke reviews Two Prosecutors, out now. bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…

Vesuvius tremors, tomb raiders and patient Neapolitan Fire Brigade workers all have a part to play in Gianfranco Rosi’s poetic meditation on the fragile nature of Naples. @filmnickjames reviews Pompei: Below the Clouds, out this week. bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…

“Michael Angelo Covino’s slyly hilarious screwball comedy really gets elbow-deep into today’s marital tensions between fidelity and Fomo, pulling its rueful laughs from two messy detours into non-monogamy” Kate Stables reviews Splitsville, out tomorrow bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…

“Is it too much, in this world, to ask for “some goddamn catharsis, some genuine guilt” to be apportioned to the terrible people who live well on the misery of others? That’s what Tony (Bill Skarsgård) is seeking in Dead Man’s Wire” Ben Walters reviews bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…

“Ryan Gosling sells it, just as Matt Damon did in The Martian, and even the most curmudgeonly among us will find things to laugh at” @henrykmiller reviews Project Hail Mary, out now. bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…

“Jackson [Yee] was really excited because he knew that we were trying to make the film in a very old school way. When we shot the silent part, they all enjoyed it like children.” bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…

Bi Gan’s third feature is a chameleonic journey through a century of filmmaking. Here the director speaks to David West about finding inspiration in classic folk tales, and the fundamental mystery of perspective. bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…

Sinners takes home four Oscars: Best original screenplay for Ryan Coogler, Best original score for Ludwig Göransson, Autumn Durald Arkapaw for Best cinematography and Best actor for Michael B. Jordan. Read Alex Ramon’s review here. bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…

One Battle After Another has won Best Picture at the 98th Academy Awards. Read the @nickkinocritic’s review of the film here. bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…

Ralph Fiennes for best actor? @brofromanother on this year's stand-out performances bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…

CG, or not CG? Mamoru Hosoda's conflicted new epic, SCARLET, is in UK cinemas now. My review for @SightSoundmag: bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…

Bi Gan’s vivid storytelling reincarnates a rebel dreamer (Jackson Yee) across 100 years of Chinese history, experienced as six chapters each in a different cinematic style. @ArjSaj reviews Resurrection, in UK cinemas now. bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…

Cillian Murphy reprises his role as Tommy Shelby, this time to face his estranged son Duke (Barry Keoghan), in a bloody big-screen version of the TV series that will go down well with fans. @London_Lou reviews Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…

On some performances I liked, and the perception of “award season acting” in general, for @SightSoundmag

As the awards season reaches its climax, @brofromanother looks deeper at the how and the why of acting excellence, from Ralph Fiennes’ ragged bone man in 28 Years Later to Emma Stone’s pharmaceutical mogul in Bugonia and beyond bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…

Felipe Bustos Sierra’s engaging record of a large resident protest against in Glasglow is a strong showcase of both local solidarity and proactive filmmaking. Tim Hayes reviews Everybody to Kenmure Street, opening film at @glasgowfilmfest bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…

“We wanted to give the characters a chance to gaze back”: director Mascha Schilinski on her uncanny intergenerational drama, Sound of Falling. bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…