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Bitter Christmas: Pedro Almodóvar makes himself the butt of the joke in a slippery meta drama

A creatively challenged writer-director is writing a screenplay about a creatively challenged writer-director in an entertaining self-reflexive experiment from the Spanish great that feels like a stopgap made with one eye on the next feature.

By Jessica Kiang

Bitter Christmas: Pedro Almodóvar makes himself the butt of the joke in a slippery meta drama

Features

Reservoir Cops: Quentin Tarantino on The Rip

By Quentin Tarantino

Reservoir Cops: Quentin Tarantino on The Rip

Festivals

Minotaur: Andrey Zvyagintsev’s beautifully sinister Chabrol adaptation dissects Russian authoritarianism

By Jessica Kiang

Minotaur: Andrey Zvyagintsev’s beautifully sinister Chabrol adaptation dissects Russian authoritarianism

Features

The Marilyn moment: Monroe at 100

By Farran Smith Nehme

The Marilyn moment: Monroe at 100

From the Sight and Sound archive

A “lethally perfumed neo-noir”: David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr.

By Graham Fuller

A “lethally perfumed neo-noir”: David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr.

Reviews

Erupcja: Charli xcx brings natural charm to this whimsical but weightless Warsaw hangout movie

By Kate Stables

Erupcja: Charli xcx brings natural charm to this whimsical but weightless Warsaw hangout movie

Features

Exit 8: in the loop

By Adam Nayman

Exit 8: in the loop

Reviews

Enzo: French coming-of-ager is a poignant farewell from director Laurent Cantet

By Guy Lodge

Enzo: French coming-of-ager is a poignant farewell from director Laurent Cantet

Reviews

Backrooms: Kane Parsons turns internet mythology into an unsettling and inventive horror

By Kim Newman

Backrooms: Kane Parsons turns internet mythology into an unsettling and inventive horror

Festivals

Parallel Tales: Asghar Farhadi plays with ideas of artistic voyeurism in a frustratingly opaque French-language drama

By Tara Brady

Parallel Tales: Asghar Farhadi plays with ideas of artistic voyeurism in a frustratingly opaque French-language drama

From the Sight and Sound archive

Blonde ambition: Legally Blonde reviewed in 2001

By Kay Dickinson

Blonde ambition: Legally Blonde reviewed in 2001

Lists

Sight and Sound’s original verdict on 15 of Cannes’ biggest Palme d’Or winners

By Lindsay Anderson, John Gillett and others

Sight and Sound’s original verdict on 15 of Cannes’ biggest Palme d’Or winners

Festivals

A Man of His Time: Emmanuel Marre’s daring World War II drama explores the dark side of bureaucratic ambition

By Thomas Flew

A Man of His Time: Emmanuel Marre’s daring World War II drama explores the dark side of bureaucratic ambition

Festivals

All of a Sudden: Hamaguchi questions philosophies of care in a radically tender and enriching drama

By Nicolas Rapold

All of a Sudden: Hamaguchi questions philosophies of care in a radically tender and enriching drama

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Fjord: curiously underdeveloped addition to Cristian Mungiu’s body of work explores religious persecution in a small Scandinavian town

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

Fjord: curiously underdeveloped addition to Cristian Mungiu’s body of work explores religious persecution in a small Scandinavian town

Festivals

Paper Tiger: Adam Driver brings a dangerous charm to James Gray’s tense crime thriller

By John Bleasdale

Paper Tiger: Adam Driver brings a dangerous charm to James Gray’s tense crime thriller

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“When you look at the roles I played, I made a difference in every movie”: Bruce Dern on his life in film

By Nicolas Rapold

“When you look at the roles I played, I made a difference in every movie”: Bruce Dern on his life in film

From the Sight and Sound archive

Beauties and the beast: Lina Wertmüller’s Seven Beauties and Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver

By Colin L. Westerbeck Jr.

Beauties and the beast: Lina Wertmüller’s Seven Beauties and Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver

Festivals

Her Private Hell: Nicolas Winding Refn’s gory neon fairytale puts style before substance

By Giovanni Marchini Camia

Her Private Hell: Nicolas Winding Refn’s gory neon fairytale puts style before substance

Reviews

Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu: Jon Favreau expands his hit streaming series into a pleasant but forgettable big-screen adventure

By Kate Stables

Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu: Jon Favreau expands his hit streaming series into a pleasant but forgettable big-screen adventure

Festivals

Fatherland: Thomas Mann takes a postwar roadtrip in Paweł Pawlikowski’s brisk and beautiful father-daughter drama

By Nicolas Rapold

Fatherland: Thomas Mann takes a postwar roadtrip in Paweł Pawlikowski’s brisk and beautiful father-daughter drama

Festivals

I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning: the British housing crisis is ever present in Clio Barnard’s touching story of a Birmingham friendship group

By B. Ruby Rich

I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning: the British housing crisis is ever present in Clio Barnard’s touching story of a Birmingham friendship group

Festivals

Hope: a big, bold South Korean creature feature

By John Bleasdale

Hope: a big, bold South Korean creature feature

Reviews

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma: Jane Schoenbrun’s open-hearted slasher is playful about sex and cinema

By Blake Simons

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma: Jane Schoenbrun’s open-hearted slasher is playful about sex and cinema

Reviews

Tuner: Daniel Roher’s stylish neo-noir finds surprising harmony between crime and romance

By Henry K Miller

Tuner: Daniel Roher’s stylish neo-noir finds surprising harmony between crime and romance

Festivals

Sheep in the Box: a jarringly sentimental exploration of AI and grief

By Mark Asch

Sheep in the Box: a jarringly sentimental exploration of AI and grief

Reviews

Normal: Ben Wheatley and Bob Odenkirk unleash chaos in small-town America

By Kim Newman

Normal: Ben Wheatley and Bob Odenkirk unleash chaos in small-town America

From the Sight and Sound archive

Italian auteurs and American upstarts: the Cannes Film Festival in 1976

By Penelope Houston

Italian auteurs and American upstarts: the Cannes Film Festival in 1976

From the Sight and Sound archive

“A film of marvels if not quite a marvellous film”: Shrek reviewed in 2001

By Kim Newman

“A film of marvels if not quite a marvellous film”: Shrek reviewed in 2001

Reviews

Eagles of the Republic: Egypt’s film industry becomes a political battleground in Tarik Saleh’s sharp thriller

By Joseph Fahim

Eagles of the Republic: Egypt’s film industry becomes a political battleground in Tarik Saleh’s sharp thriller