Sight & Sound articles
The Stylist is a cut-throat hairdresser horror story
Jill Gevargizian's debut feature is a sharp look at the uneasy intimacy between scissor-wielding Claire (Najarra Townsend) and her unsuspecting victims.
By Jason Anderson
Call My Agent! Season 4 gives its guest stars the run of the show
By Jonathan Romney
Landscapes of Resistance sculpts a hope-filled monument to the life of an Auschwitz survivor
By Cathy Brennan
Gritt follows a woman’s self-destructive, determined dreams of artistic glory
By Ela Bittencourt
Slalom is a chilling sexual assault story in the world of elite Alpine skiing
By Kate Stables
The Twentieth Century tells a bastardised history of Canadian politics
By Thomas Flew
Malcolm and Marie is a long night’s shallow film lecture
By Nadine Deller
Dead Pigs entwines social satire and family drama amongst the simulacra of modern China
By Ela Bittencourt
All Light, Everywhere is an illuminative meditation on the nature of seeing
By Laura Jacobs
PVT Chat sees digital dominatrix fantasy collide with grim New York reality
By Nikki Baughan
The Columnist scrawls a story of Twitter troll comeuppance
By Madeleine Wall
Archipelago traverses Québec’s cultural terrain as an animated anthology
By Neil Young
The Witches of the Orient shows the cultural influence of Japanese volleyball stars
By Jonathan Romney
Riders of Justice shows Mads Mikkelsen wreaking paternal vengeange
By John Bleasdale
Censor splices cut-throat video nasty violence with smart social commentary
By Ela Bittencourt
A Ghost Waits joins the ranks of classic supernatural romances
By Kim Newman
Judas and the Black Messiah lays bare the criminality of a US police state
By Devika Girish
Assassins peers into the diplomatic murk and weirdness of a high-profile murder
By Hannah McGill
Simple Passion shows us a woman in the thrall of love
By Sophie Brown
One for the Road: a stylish but superficial Thai road trip
By Thomas Flew
Flee: an evocative, animated documentary of escape from Afghanistan
By Caitlin Quinlan
In the Same Breath: the Covid-19 pandemic goes under the microscope
By Sophie Brown
Human Factors: a tense, puzzling family drama
By Thomas Flew
President: a startling story of Zimbabwean electoral fraud
By Caitlin Quinlan
I Was a Simple Man: a poetic but sluggish ghost story
By Kelli Weston
Luzzu: an earnest, neorealistic Maltese fishing drama
By Thomas Flew
The Most Beautiful Boy in the World: the personal tragedy behind world-renowned beauty
By Caitlin Quinlan
The Pink Cloud: an inadvertently true-to-life lockdown drama
By Thomas Flew
John and the Hole: a slick but insubstantial psychological thriller
By Kelli Weston