News
Sight and Sound: the December 2025 Issue
Sight and Sound: the December 2025 Issue
All Sight and Sound articles
From the Sight and Sound archive
“It’s alive!”: the gothic tradition’s enduring legacy on screen
By Rhidian Davis
Reviews
Relay: Riz Ahmed proves an enigmatic action hero in this slick tech thriller
By Kim Newman
Reviews
Palestine 36: a broad primer on a complex period in Palestinian history
By Rachel Pronger
Reviews
Bugonia: Yorgos Lanthimos masters the bleakest side of conspiracy satire
By Travis Jeppesen
Reviews
With Hasan in Gaza: Rediscovered footage creates a powerful portrait of Palestinian life under occupation
By Arron Kennon
From the Sight and Sound archive
The House of Mirth: a Wharton adaptation that rivals Scorsese’s
By Philip Horne
Festivals
The Mastermind: Kelly Reichardt pulls off a perfect slow heist movie
By Nicolas Rapold
Features
Sholay at 50: Ramesh Sippy’s dazzling epic stands the test of time
By Sam Wigley
Festivals
Below the Clouds: documentary tribute to Naples is filled with sepulchral melancholy
By Nick James
Reviews
The Stranger: François Ozon’s insightful re-reading of Camus’ classic novella explores themes of queerness and Algerian identity
By Jonathan Romney
Interviews
“It’s not so easy as heroes and villains. I’m more interested in grey areas”: Derek Cianfrance on Roofman
By Hope Rangaswami
Features
Hall of mirrors: the ending of All About Eve
By Jessica Kiang
Reviews
Souleymane’s Story: a Guinean in Paris seeks the perfect tale to secure asylum in Boris Lojkine’s affecting migration drama
By Ben Nicholson
Features
A century of cinephilia: the legacy of the Film Society
By Henry K Miller
Reviews
Plainclothes: a gay policeman goes undercover in Carmen Emmi’s tense directorial debut
By Alex Davidson
Reviews
Good Boy: doggy ghost story goes for creeping dread over shocks
By Kim Newman
From the Sight and Sound archive
Perfect Blue: Kon Satoshi’s twisted pop dream
By Jonathan Romney
Lists
Eight under-the-radar LFF films
By Thomas Flew, Beatrice Loayza and others
Festivals
20 great films playing at BFI London Film Festival 2025
20 great films playing at BFI London Film Festival 2025From the Sight and Sound archive
Midnight madness: The Rocky Horror Picture Cult
By Jonathan Rosenbaum
Festivals
Rose of Nevada: a remarkably beautiful Cornish time-loop drama
By Jonathan Romney
Festivals
Writing Life – Annie Ernaux Through the Eyes of High School Students: Claire Simon’s touching documentary explores the universality of Ernaux’s writing
By Laura Venning
Reviews
Urchin: Harris Dickinson’s distinctive debut suggests an exciting career behind the camera lies ahead
By Philip Concannon
Festivals
Maspalomas: an older gay man gets his mojo back after a stroke in this familiar feel-good comedy
By Neil Young
From the Sight and Sound archive
“It was dance as action rather than as aesthetics”: Stephen Daldry on Billy Elliot
By Edward Lawrenson
News
Sight and Sound: the November 2025 issue
Sight and Sound: the November 2025 issueReviews
Invention: low budget meta experiment captures the uncanniness of grief
By Dylan Huw
Reviews
Ellis Park: a Warren Ellis documentary in synch with its generous subject
By Leigh Singer
Reviews
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey: passion takes a backseat in this earnest modern love story
By Ben Nicholson