All Sight & Sound articles
Strangers in a strange land: how films are reframing the refugee experience
Ben Sharrock’s Limbo is a tragicomic portrait of a group of asylum seekers passing time on a remote Scottish island. As it arrives in UK cinemas, we examine a growing body of films over the past two decades that have sought to reframe our understanding of the refugee experience.
By Agnes Woolley
Cannes 2021: Un Certain Regard round-up
By Jonathan Romney
The World to Come finds forbidden love in a 19th century New York winter
By Kate Stables
Night of the Kings concocts an Ivorian prison myth of raw beauty
By Leila Latif
The Story of My Wife is all at sea in its exploration of marital dysfunction
By Guy Lodge
Memoria shows Apichatpong at the peak of his mesmerising powers
By James Lattimer
The Year of the Everlasting Storm forges international bonds with a pandemic-era anthology
By Nicolas Rapold
After Yang finds gif-sized glimpses of life after AI death
By Jessica Kiang
France shows that all the world’s a stage for the media
By Giovanni Marchini Camia
Red Rocket shoots for the (porn)stars and finds them in the gutter
By Jessica Kiang
A Hero finds a debt-ridden prisoner walking streets paved with gold
By Guy Lodge
The Tsugua Diaries delights with a playful Portuguese puzzle
By Giovanni Marchini Camia
The French Dispatch pens a lavishly Andersonian love letter to journalism
By Leigh Singer
Three Floors is a Roman apartment block story not worth writing home about
By John Bleasdale
Bergman Island looks at a filmmaking couple’s creative processes through a glass darkly
By Elena Lazic
Ali & Ava serenades its Bradfordian sweethearts
By Sophie Monks Kaufman
Mothering Sunday loosens the corset of the English heritage drama
By Leigh Singer
Compartment No. 6 forces a chalk-and-cheese couple into a cramped train carriage
By John Bleasdale
Flag Day is reluctant to share its family secrets
By Anna Smith
Hit the Road packs humour and heartbreak into an oddball Iranian family’s SUV
By Leigh Singer
The Storms of Jeremy Thomas is a perfect primer for the producer’s portfolio
By Trevor Johnston
Benedetta is transfigured by ecstacy both religious and sexual
By John Bleasdale
Black Widow fails to balance low key pseudo-familial bickering with CGI-smashing action
By Kim Newman
Italian auteurs and American upstarts: the Cannes Film Festival in 1976
By Penelope Houston
Ahed’s Knee bristles with a filmmaker’s fury against Israeli censorship
By Caspar Salmon
Cow laments the transformation of animals into livestock
By Jessica Kiang