Sight & Sound articles
It Must Be Heaven shows a Palestinian in Paris searching for salvation
In his latest film as director and deadpan star Elia Suleiman retains his highly formal style, but there is a weariness to the gags of a Palestinian beset by Western stereotypes.
By Jonathan Romney
In the Earth descends into the madness of a haunted forest
By Hannah McGill
Luca takes a fish out of water for a summer holiday
By Thomas Flew
The Reason I Jump centres the viewpoints of its neurodivergent cast
By Jason Anderson
Lisey’s Story gives an author’s grieving wife fantasies and nightmares
By Nikki Baughan
Ellie & Abbie (& Ellie’s Dead Aunt) summons a ghost of queer past for high school advice
By Ben Walters
Shiva Baby sees a young Jewish woman’s secret life unravel during a funeral
By Lisa Mullen
The Father is a painfully potent depiction of mental deterioration
By Matthew Taylor
Mandabi is a Wolof masterwork ripe for rediscovery
By Kaleem Aftab
I Am Samuel is a tender look at a gay Kenyan couple’s lives and love
By Alex Ramon
Choked takes in middle-class Indian life from the gutter to the stars
By Tony Rayns
After Love grieves for a house divided by the English Channel
By Pamela Hutchinson
The Killing of Two Lovers examines domestic violence but focuses on the abuser
By Rebecca Harrison
The Mosquito Coast sends Allie Fox and family down to Mexico
By Robert Hanks
A Quiet Place Part II continues the Abbott family’s fight for survival
By Anton Bitel
Halston charts the rise and fall of an American fashion icon
By Trevor Johnston
The Pursuit of Love thinks too much of its selfish star
By Hannah McGill
Mare of Easttown investigates a murder in small-town Pennsylvania
By Kate Stables
Surge crackles with the frantic energy of a man with nothing to lose
By Naomi Obeng
Earwig and the Witch combines a new look for Studio Ghibli with a disappointingly safe story
By Kate Stables
Frankie takes a siesta in the Portuguese sun
By Philip Kemp
My New York Year tenderly pens a literary assistant’s memoir
By Pamela Hutchinson
Rare Beasts takes a hatchet to romcom pipe dreams
By Nikki Baughan
State Funeral observes a period of mourning for Stalin
By Nick Pinkerton
Undergods searches a dystopian city for fragments of male ego
By Alex Ramon
The Underground Railroad curves its way through an alternative history of slavery
By Gaylene Gould
A Space in Time explores parental bonds and societal stigmas in a family living with disabilities
By Carmen Gray