Sight & Sound articles
892: John Boyega and Michael K. Williams shine in a tense hostage drama
For her first feature, director Abi Damaris Corbin adapts the true story of Brian Brown-Easley (John Boyega), a distressed and mistreated veteran who held two hostages in an Atlanta bank while chasing the $892 owed to him by the US government.
By Tim Hayes
When You Finish Saving the World looks at the current political mood from an oblique angle
By Tim Hayes
Anne channels its pain and rage into a call for justice for the Hillsborough families
By Kate Stables
Nightmare Alley: Guillermo del Toro returns with a creepy carnival noir
By Kim Newman
Memory Box turns its directors’ personal archives into art
By Katherine McLaughlin
Belfast is Kenneth Branagh’s flawed but moving portrait of the Troubles
By Trevor Johnston
The Matrix: Resurrections is a welcome antidote to generic blockbusters
By Adam Nayman
Licorice Pizza: a meandering trip beneath the California sun
By Ben Nicholson
Friends and Strangers uses a fragmented narrative to explore the dark side of Australia’s history
By Carmen Gray
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain puts cats centre stage in a film that’s filled with eccentric charm
By Philip Kemp
The Tragedy of Macbeth forgoes medieval dankness for a stark and claustrophobic adaptation
By Nicolas Rapold
Don’t Look Up is a crass, scattergun comedy that somehow works
By Anton Bitel
Being the Ricardos is a clunky but engaging look behind-the-scenes of 1950s sitcom I Love Lucy
By Philip Kemp
The Story of Film: A New Generation takes viewers on an enriching journey through a decade of cinema
By Philip Kemp
Spider-Man: No Way Home offers a satisfying trip through the multiverse
By Kim Newman
The Lost Daughter explores the dark side of motherhood with a risky drama that feels closer to a thriller
By Pamela Hutchinson
West Side Story is a musical reboot that’s tinged with melancholy
By Guy Lodge
Hope addresses the realities of cancer with great sensitivity
By Nikki Baughan
Lamb delivers a slice of Icelandic-weird that tips into unabashed folk-horror
By Anne Billson
The Hand of God leaves viewers to sort autobiography from fabrication
By Anton Bitel
The Beatles: Get Back is a tender portrait of a band on the brink of change
By Jonathan Romney
Encounter takes unexpected turns on an apocalyptic sci-fi road trip
By Carmen Gray
Hellbound challenges ideas about faith and free will in six harrowing episodes
By Trevor Johnston
House of Gucci is a tragi-comic triumph of operatic proportions
By Rebecca Harrison
Anne at 13,000 ft follows a troubled protagonist in free fall
By Elena Lazic
Pirates is a debut feature from Reggie Yates that revels in 90s nostalgia
By Alex Ramon
Natural Light is a film begrimed with the collective guilt of moral cowardice
By Pamela Hutchinson
tick, tick… BOOM! proves a moving tribute to composer Jonathan Larson
By Leila Latif
The Power of the Dog draws out the instability of the American West’s handed-down myths
By Nicolas Rapold