The best of the year
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We asked 163 critics and curators to name their five top movies of the year – and atop what may be our most diverse annual poll yet, the runaway winner is a German comedy…
Friday 2 December 2016 -
The best DVDs and Blu-rays of 2016
Three blockbuster restoration-revivals dominate our survey of this year’s best home cinema, as picked out by 32 critics and curators.
Friday 6 January 2017 -
The best indie animation of 2016
It was a year rich in features – but even more so in short-form films, if only you could see them. Chris Robinson, Alex Dudok de Wit and Jez Stewart uncover the gems crying out for a place on the bill at your local cinema.
Friday 6 January 2017 -
The best documentaries of 2016: cinematic nonfiction in the year of nonfact
As the world entered the post-truth era, documentary film artists embraced ever more levels of formal awareness and complexity. Obfuscation, or the only way through the media maze, asks Robert Greene? Plus: the 25 best documentaries of the year.
Friday 13 January 2017 -
The superhero movies of 2016: brawl without end?
In the year of Batman v Superman v Captain America v Iron Man et al, snarky Deadpool, self-parodying X-Men: Apocalypse and super-grim Suicide Squad, could Doctor Strange show us the door to a better world – or at least a richer class of superhero film? A video essay by Leigh Singer.
Friday 20 January 2017
Read more round-ups in our January 2017 issue
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Sight & Sound: the January 2017 issue
Damien Chazelle’s modern musical La La Land, and a new look at exemplary toe-tapper Gene Kelly. Plus Krzysztof Kieslowski, Issa Rae, Eugène Green, William Kentridge – and our annual year-end roundup.
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