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First-look reviews from the Berlinale
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Berlinale first look: Light of My Life navigates a world without women
Writer-director-producer Casey Affleck stars in this intimate film as a father guiding his young daughter through a dystopic society from which her gender has been obliterated, writes Ella Kemp.
Wednesday 13 February 2019 -
Berlinale first look: I Was at Home, But… is an elegantly radical mystery
Classically composed and gorgeously immersive, the new film from Angela Schanelec is a bizarre, mystifying work that is oddly comforting despite its many puzzles, writes Jessica Kiang.
Wednesday 13 February 2019 -
Berlinale first look: Buoyancy is a harrowing thriller about modern slavery
This assured debut by Australian writer-director Rodd Rathjen focuses on a young teenager put to work on a fishing trawler by a ruthless human trafficker, writes Paul O’Callaghan.
Wednesday 13 February 2019 -
Berlinale first look: God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya is a vivid feminist satire
Teona Strugar Mitevska’s first film in the main competition has proved a crowd-pleaser and no wonder, with a compelling lead performance from Zorica Nusheva as a young woman standing up to patriarchal church authorities, writes Geoff Andrew.
Wednesday 13 February 2019 -
Berlinale first look: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind takes a fresh look at a familiar crisis
Chiwetel Ejiofor writes, directs and acts in this smart and unpatronising biopic of a young man who came up with an ingenious solution when his village in Malawi was stricken by drought, wries Kambole Campbell.
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Berlinale first look: Out Stealing Horses recounts a golden summer touched with tragedy
Hans Petter Moland merges Buddhist philosophy with postwar nostalgia in this evocative tale of a childhood remembered in old age by a lonely Stellan Skarsgård, writes Caitlin Quinlan.
Wednesday 13 February 2019
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Sight & Sound: the March 2019 issue
The versatile and complex performances of Barbara Stanwyck; plus If Beale Street Could Talk, Burning, Capernaum and our annual obituaries round-up.
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2018 in review
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The best films of 2018 – the full poll
Browse the votes and comments from 164 international critics and curators in our interactive database.
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The best Blu-rays (and DVDs) of 2018
2018’s home cinema packages reached Olympian heights of splendour and sumptuousness. We asked 37 critics and DVD curators to pick their highlights.
Tuesday 1 January 2019 -
Straight from the firehose: 200 or so of 2018’s most outstanding videographic criticism, as chosen by 47 top practitioners, curators and scholars. Introduced by Irina Trocan and David Verdeure.
Sunday 20 January 2019 -
The departed: the filmmakers we lost in 2018
Our roll call of film figures who passed away in 2018, compiled by Bob Mastrangelo, with links to individual obituaries.
Thursday 24 January 2019
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The Lego Movie 2 review: this hyper-aware sequel builds a wall of irony
Sibling rivalry begets Duplo apocalypse in this relentlessly irreverent second serving of the plastic fantastic branding caper with a void at its core, says Alex Dudok de Wit.
Sunday 17 February 2019 -
Film of the week: If Beale Street Could Talk plays out a thwarted romance in slow-motion
Barry Jenkins’s languorous follow-up to Moonlight is a lovingly observed story of two young people who come together in a hazy 1970s New York, before being torn apart by rough justice, writes Nick Pinkerton.
Thursday 7 February 2019 -
Erick Stoll on América: “We all have a responsibility to care for one another”
When a documentary subject suddenly had to start looking after his elderly grandmother, the filmmakers followed him and his brothers through this new, often painful challenge instead. The result is a remarkably warm and sensitive movie. Sophie Brown spoke to one fo the directors.
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Dusan Makavejev obituary: the revolutionary ringmaster of Yugoslav film
Renowned for provocations like W.R. – Mysteries of the Organism and Sweet Movie made on both sides of the Iron Curtain, the Yugoslav master of the irreverent montage finally became himself a totem of a vanished era, writes Jonathan Owen.
Saturday 2 February 2019 -
Michel Legrand obituary: an exceptional film composer with an ear for a hit
From the French New Wave to Hollywood classics, Legrand’s scores combined sophistication and the experimental ambition of jazz, creating some of the most memorable music in the movies, including The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and The Thomas Crown Affair, writes Neil Brand.
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Film of the week: Burning sparks with rage and imagination
In Lee Changdong’s new film, a exceptionally smart script transforms a Murakami short story into an ambiguous drama about drifting twentysomethings, which reflects the anger of a restless generation, writes Tony Rayns.
Thursday 31 January 2019 -
Film as life: tributes to Jonas Mekas at 90
The great Jonas Mekas, who has died aged 96, was the godfather of avant-garde film, as maker of his own works and facilitator of other people’s. Here we reprint our tributes to Mekas on his 90th birthday by Amy Taubin and five great fellow filmmakers.
Wednesday 30 January 2019 -
Sundance first look: Honey Boy sees Shia LaBeouf unearth his own childhood trauma
This fictionalised memoir, directed by Alma Har’el from a moving screenplay by LaBeouf, features an outstanding performance by child actor Noah Jupe as the young Shia, tormented by his bitter alcoholic father, played by LaBeouf himself, writes Simran Hans.
Tuesday 29 January 2019 -
Sundance first look: in Late Night, Emma Thompson and Mindy Kaling miss the joke
A floundering chat show host is saved by a quickwitted fan who steps in to modernise her patter, but the comedy set ups here are sadly beyond rescue, writes Jordan Hoffman.
Tuesday 29 January 2019 -
Sundance first look: Monos is a surrealist trip into the jungle
A squad of teenage soldiers and their panic-stricken hostage go on an eerie and absurd journey in this tense thriller directed by Alejandro Landres, writes Jordan Hoffman.
Tuesday 29 January 2019 -
Sundance first look: After the Wedding is an ill-advised (re)union
Julianne Moore yokes Michelle Williams into a family surprise in Bart Freundlich’s opulent but anodyne remake of Susanne Bier’s Danish drama, says Jordan Hoffman.
Saturday 26 January 2019 -
Detainment review: a plea for wiser judgement
Vincent Lambe’s tactful, powerful recreation of the Jamie Bulger case – the before and after of the infamous child murder – turns the spotlight on our response to incomprehensible horror, says Alex Dudok de Wit.
Friday 25 January 2019
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Three Colours Silver: Europe 25 years after Kieslowski’s trilogy – a video essay
A quarter century on from Krzysztof Kieślowski’s post-Cold War arthouse landmark, how has time distilled the insights of Three Colours Blue, White and Red, asks Leigh Singer.
Wednesday 12 September 2018 -
How to be a documentary filmmaker in the UK? It’s all about what hotel bar you know, video-essays Charlie Lyne.
Monday 9 July 2018 -
In her eyes: notes on Gloria Grahame (a video essay)
With a curl of her lip and an arch of her eyebrow, Gloria Grahame was the actress who stood up to both Humphrey Bogart and Lee Marvin in their most violent roles. In this video essay, Serena Bramble explores the burn mark Grahame left on the silver screen.
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Video essay: What is neorealism?
kogonada pits the director of The Bicycle Thieves against the producer of Gone with the Wind on the same movie material.
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