Sight & Sound articles
The Afterlight: a film of immortals en route to oblivion
Assembling movie clips from across space and time, Charlie Shackleton’s collage film sees cinematic icons and bit-players alike convene at a watering hole named The Afterlight. It’s one answer to the question: what do the dead do all day?
By Jonathan Romney
Nitram: a sensitive cautionary tale against lax gun laws
By Carmen Gray
Tigers: a raw, revealing portrait of the beautiful game and its mental health hazards
By Tim Hayes
Faya Dayi: an oneiric overview of Ethiopia’s khat-farming communities
By Leila Latif
Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War – a touching search for a missing artist
By Philip Concannon
Elvis: a frenetic jukebox musical that’s heavy on style and light on substance
By Simran Hans
My Name Is Leon: an unconvincing tearjerker
By Nicole Flattery
Moon, 66 Questions: a deeply moving father-daughter portrait
By Catherine Wheatley
Swan Song: a disappointing outing for Udo Kier
By Alex Davidson
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande: all the bed’s a stage
By Pamela Hutchinson
Pleasure: porn-world pic whose protagonist is less compelling than her milieu
By Jessica Kiang
The Good Boss: a perfectly weighted comedy
By Maria Delgado
All My Friends Hate Me: a potent entry in the cinema of paranoia
By Philip Kemp
Jurassic World Dominion: Where are all the dinos?
By Kim Newman
We Own This City: brisk, brusque exposé of Baltimore police corruption
By Guy Lodge
Dashcam: a livestream of consciousness that steers right into the QAnon canon
By Anton Bitel
War Pony: a picaresque portrait of young Native American lives
By Nicolas Rapold
Mother and Son: a deceptively simple, finely written immigrant drama
By Caspar Salmon
God’s Creatures: an evocative mood piece that loses its way
By Caitlin Quinlan
Showing Up: a typically patient portrait of an artist by Kelly Reichardt
By Nicolas Rapold
Broker: baby traffickers build blissful families in Kore-eda’s Korean crime caper
By Sophie Monks Kaufman
Falcon Lake: young summer loving ripens in a beguiling, surprising debut
By John Bleasdale
Stars at Noon: Claire Denis trawls a hell less spellbinding with her American in Nicaragua
By Nicolas Rapold
Pistol plays the Sex Pistols story as cartoon
By Graham Fuller
Godland finds nothing but beauty on a young priest’s mission to the far side of Iceland
By Caspar Salmon
Hunt: Lee Jung-jae’s spy thriller goes for breakneck bombast
By Lou Thomas
Between Two Worlds: Juliette Binoche goes down and covert as a ferry cleaner
By Gabrielle Marceau
Moonage Daydream trips David Bowie’s sound and light fantastic
By Sam Davies
Get Carter review: a clinical, cynical film noir for 1970s Britain
By Tom Milne