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The Greatest Films of All Time

Once a decade Sight and Sound asks critics to select the best films ever made. Find out the results of our largest ever poll.

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Kneecap: a biopic is only the beginning for this anarchic Belfast hip hop trio

Belfast rap group Kneecap rail against British imperialism and fight for the Irish language in this outlandish, exhilarating film based on the band’s origin story.

By Thomas Flew

Kneecap: a biopic is only the beginning for this anarchic Belfast hip hop trio
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Look Into My Eyes: exquisitely made documentary about New York City psychics puts compassion before cynicism

By Nicolas Rapold

Look Into My Eyes: exquisitely made documentary about New York City psychics puts compassion before cynicism
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Baghead: a trickster witch communes with the dead from a pub in Alberto Corredor’s assured horror

By Anton Bitel

Baghead: a trickster witch communes with the dead from a pub in Alberto Corredor’s assured horror
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Love Lies Bleeding: this bodybuilding melodrama is a film of passionate extremes

By Nicolas Rapold

Love Lies Bleeding: this bodybuilding melodrama is a film of passionate extremes
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This Blessed Plot: Marc Isaacs tackles grief, madness, betrayal and England’s ghosts in a mischievous docudrama

By Nick Bradshaw

This Blessed Plot: Marc Isaacs tackles grief, madness, betrayal and England’s ghosts in a mischievous docudrama
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Presence: this suburban ghost story is one of Steven Soderbergh’s best go-for-broke experiments yet

By Nicolas Rapold

Presence: this suburban ghost story is one of Steven Soderbergh’s best go-for-broke experiments yet
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Krazy House: 1990s sitcom spoof is startlingly unfunny

By Anton Bitel

Krazy House: 1990s sitcom spoof is startlingly unfunny
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My Dream Palace

“It was fairly anarchic…” Nick Broomfield recalls Greek cinema under the stars with all-natural extras

By Nick Broomfield

“It was fairly anarchic…” Nick Broomfield recalls Greek cinema under the stars with all-natural extras

Ten key cinema workers on the way out of lockdown

By Katie McCabe and Isabel Stevens

Ten key cinema workers on the way out of lockdown

Let there be projector light: 80 films that take us inside cinemas

By Thomas Flew

Let there be projector light: 80 films that take us inside cinemas
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An audience with Howard Hawks

By Joseph McBride and Michael Wilmington

An audience with Howard Hawks

Keeping a distance: Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman

By Janet Bergstrom

Keeping a distance: Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman

Rhapsody in blue: Barry Jenkins on Moonlight

By Gaylene Gould

Rhapsody in blue: Barry Jenkins on Moonlight
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