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“Paper Tiger is the kind of low-stakes crime drama we don’t get enough of these days and which James Gray excels at” John Bleasdale reviews from #Cannes2026 bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…

“Mungiu weakens the impact of his moral play by treating his targets the same way they treat the Gheorghius: building a case against them based on a dehumanising characterisation.” Sophie Monks Kaufman reviews Palme d'Or-winner Fjord. bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…

Cristian Mungiu has won the Palme d’Or at Cannes for the second time with Fjord, a drama exploring religious persecution in a small Scandinavian town. Read on for the @SightSoundmag review by Sophie Monks Kaufman. #Cannes2026 bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…

Sight and Sound editors Katie McCabe, Isabel Stevens and Thomas Flew have joined Devika Girish and guests on the @FilmComment podcast this #Cannes2026 to discuss the latest premieres – from Fatherland to Fjord to La bola negra Head to the new Film Comment site now to listen filmcomment.com

1. A Man of his Time (Emmanuel Marre) 2. Fatherland (Paweł Pawlikowski) 3. Rehearsals for a Revolution (Pegah Ahangarani) 4. La bola negra (Javier Calvo & Javier Ambrossi) 5. The Beloved (Rodrigo Sorogoyen) 6. All of a Sudden (Hamaguchi Ryūsuke) 7. Diary of a Chambermaid (Radu Jude) 8. Minotaur (Andrey Zvyagintsev) 9. The Dreamed Adventure (Valeska Grisebach) 10. Red Rocks (Bruno Dumont)

The top 10 films of #cannes2026, as selected by our editors, from the competition and beyond Look for more S&S reviews of Cannes titles in the coming days, and extended coverage of the festival in our upcoming Summer 2026 issue

Ahead of Dernsie: The Amazing Life of Bruce Dern’s Cannes premiere, we spoke to Dern about working with Hitchcock, Tarantino and Chabrol, and his journey from playing “little tiny roles” to wider critical acclaim Interview by @NicolasRapold bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…

Embedded in a group of long-time pals from a working-class area of Birmingham, Clio Barnard’s latest film captures a genuine sense of community, one forged in happiness as much as sorrow. B. Ruby Rich reviews from #Cannes2026 bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…

Nicolas Winding Refn returns to feature filmmaking with more violent eye-gouging and neon-fetishising cinematography in a story of a fantastical metropolis that suffers from wafer-thin characterisation. Giovanni Marchini Camia reviews from #Cannes2026 bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…

“Pawlikowski, co-writing with Henk Handloegten, makes a tragedy of exile that’s ultimately not about one ageing author or his family, but about all of us, living in a world we no longer recognise.” @NicolasRapold reviews Fatherland from #Cannes2026 bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…

Na Hong-jin follows up his cult horror The Wailing with a maximalist monster movie that takes its cue from the pure action cinema of Mad Max: Fury Road. John Bleasdale reviews from #Cannes2026 bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…

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In 1951, Sight and Sound created a special 74-page supplement to accompany the Festival of Britain's film programme Seventy-five years later, it is now available to be read online in full for the first time

Koreeda’s latest extends grace to all its characters, including AI robots, with a cloying story of bereaved parents who decide to create a humanoid version of their deceased son. Mark Asch reviews from the 2026 Cannes Film Festival #Cannes2026 buff.ly/tk3hX4g

Steven Soderbergh returns to his favourite template: ‘two people in a room, talking’ in a quick-witted chamber piece exploring the friction between two broken artists. Kate Stables reviews The Christophers, in cinemas Friday. bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…

Fifty years ago, we reported from a Cannes film festival whose bustling lineup included films by Bertolucci, Rohmer, Visconti, Rivette, Scorsese and more bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…

Twenty-five years ago today, Shrek premiered at the Cannes film festival For @AnnoDracula, it was “a film of marvels if not quite a marvellous film” bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…