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Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Palme d’Or-winning drama.
Academy Award®-nominated documentary set in a recession-hit town.
A tough but tender portrait of life on the fringes of society.
A fascinating study of the film icon’s extraordinary career.
Once a decade Sight & Sound asks critics to select the best films of all time.
Every week we publish a list of 10 great films, all of which are available to view in the UK.
From Paris Is Burning to The Celluloid Closet, we celebrate 10 landmark non-fiction films about LGBTQ+ lives.
Alex Davidson
21 March 2019
10 great transgender films of the 21st century
There have been plenty of impressive trans films this century, but they're not the ones awards ceremonies tend to think.
Cathy Brennan
14 March 2019
With playschool psychodrama The Kindergarten Teacher due in cinemas, we take the register of classroom classics, from School of Rock to Etre et avoir.
Leigh Singer
7 March 2019
From Alien to Under the Skin, we chart some of the modern era's most terrifying fusions of sci-fi and horror.
Matthew Thrift
28 February 2019
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