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The Phoenician Scheme: Benicio del Toro steals the show as a death-defying tycoon in Wes Anderson’s latest caper

Anderson delivers his most elaborate creation yet with this high-wire story of Anatole ‘Zsa Zsa’ Korda, an eccentric tycoon planning an infrastructural spree in the desert.

By Nick Bradshaw

The Phoenician Scheme: Benicio del Toro steals the show as a death-defying tycoon in Wes Anderson’s latest caper

Festivals

Sirât: Oliver Laxe’s thrilling desert parable lets the music take control

By Mark Asch

Sirât: Oliver Laxe’s thrilling desert parable lets the music take control

Reviews

When the Light Breaks: sadness simmers beneath the surface in this quietly affecting Icelandic drama

By Jonathan Romney

When the Light Breaks: sadness simmers beneath the surface in this quietly affecting Icelandic drama

Reviews

The Secret Agent: a masterful genre-inflected epic from Kleber Mendonça Filho

By Giovanni Marchini Camia

The Secret Agent: a masterful genre-inflected epic from Kleber Mendonça Filho

From the Sight and Sound archive

Mission: Impossible – a popcorn movie to take seriously

By José Arroyo

Mission: Impossible – a popcorn movie to take seriously

Interviews

Wong Kar Wai on In the Mood for Love at 25 – a new interview: “Can an algorithm understand the weight of a glance between two people?”

By Sam Wigley

Wong Kar Wai on In the Mood for Love at 25 – a new interview: “Can an algorithm understand the weight of a glance between two people?”

Festivals

Eddington: Ari Aster’s Covid movie punches in all directions and misses

By John Bleasdale

Eddington: Ari Aster’s Covid movie punches in all directions and misses

Festivals

Mirrors No. 3: Suspense melts away into golden summer days in Christian Petzold’s low-key psychodrama

By Savina Petkova

Mirrors No. 3: Suspense melts away into golden summer days in Christian Petzold’s low-key psychodrama

Reviews

“I was thinking of the price you pay for being obedient”: India Donaldson on her debut film Good One

By Katherine McLaughlin

“I was thinking of the price you pay for being obedient”: India Donaldson on her debut film Good One

Reviews

Final Destination Bloodlines: death just keeps on trucking in this enjoyably grisly horror

By Anton Bitel

Final Destination Bloodlines: death just keeps on trucking in this enjoyably grisly horror

Reviews

Good One: a father-daughter camping trip turns sour in this beautifully observed debut

By Tom Charity

Good One: a father-daughter camping trip turns sour in this beautifully observed debut

Reviews

E.1027: Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea: an elegant docufiction journey through a real-life modernist melodrama

By Katie McCabe

E.1027: Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea: an elegant docufiction journey through a real-life modernist melodrama

Reviews

The Extraordinary Miss Flower: from a suitcase of old love letters, a charming musical fantasy emerges

News

Sight and Sound: the June 2025 issue

Reviews

The Wedding Banquet: a satisfying reimagining of the 1993 classic

By Alex Davidson

The Wedding Banquet: a satisfying reimagining of the 1993 classic

Reviews

It’s Not Me: Leos Carax’s playful self-portrait reflects on a life of adventurous filmmaking

By Giovanni Marchini Camia

It’s Not Me: Leos Carax’s playful self-portrait reflects on a life of adventurous filmmaking

From the Sight and Sound archive

Mai Zetterling: some notes on acting

By Mai Zetterling

Mai Zetterling: some notes on acting

Reviews

Motel Destino: Karim Aïnouz’s equatorial noir sweats with neon hues and sexual tension

By Jane Giles

Motel Destino: Karim Aïnouz’s equatorial noir sweats with neon hues and sexual tension

Reviews

The Uninvited: Nadia Conners makes the anxieties of these Hollywood A-listers feel relatable

By Adam Nayman

The Uninvited: Nadia Conners makes the anxieties of these Hollywood A-listers feel relatable

Reviews

Thunderbolts*: finally, a fresh and engaging premise for the MCU

By Kim Newman

Thunderbolts*: finally, a fresh and engaging premise for the MCU

Reviews

Parthenope: Paolo Sorrentino’s swooning tribute to Naples puts beauty before plot

By Catherine Wheatley

Parthenope: Paolo Sorrentino’s swooning tribute to Naples puts beauty before plot

Reviews

Caught by the Tides second look review: Jia Zhangke’s haunting triptych on the spectres of progress

By Imogen Sara Smith

Caught by the Tides second look review: Jia Zhangke’s haunting triptych on the spectres of progress

From the Sight and Sound archive

“Godard’s best film”: Alphaville turns 60

By Richard Roud

“Godard’s best film”: Alphaville turns 60

Festivals

April: dread inhabits every frame of Déa Kulumbegashvili’s brilliant abortion drama

By Jessica Kiang

April: dread inhabits every frame of Déa Kulumbegashvili’s brilliant abortion drama

Interviews

“I don’t exist as a director in Georgia”: Dea Kulumbegashvili on her haunting abortion drama April

By Katie McCabe

“I don’t exist as a director in Georgia”: Dea Kulumbegashvili on her haunting abortion drama April

Festivals

Cloud: an online hustle turns deadly in Kurosawa Kiyoshi’s violent, freewheeling thriller

By Nicolas Rapold

Cloud: an online hustle turns deadly in Kurosawa Kiyoshi’s violent, freewheeling thriller

From the Sight and Sound archive

Marital arts: Pride & Prejudice reviewed in 2005

By Jessica Winter

Marital arts: Pride & Prejudice reviewed in 2005

Reviews

Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story: elegant documentary is dazzled by the glamour of Irish author’s life

By Nicole Flattery

Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story: elegant documentary is dazzled by the glamour of Irish author’s life

Warfare: reconstruction of an Iraq War mission gone wrong is intense but emotionally ineffective

By Philip Kemp

Warfare: reconstruction of an Iraq War mission gone wrong is intense but emotionally ineffective

Reviews

The Return: Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche bring ferocity to this stripped back reimagining of Homer’s Odyssey

By Ben Nicholson

The Return: Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche bring ferocity to this stripped back reimagining of Homer’s Odyssey