Rose of Nevada review: Tide travel Vividly shot on 16mm, Mark Jenkin’s film about two Cornish fishermen who return from sea to find they have slipped 30 years in the past is a tale of the fantastic, but it’s rooted in the bleak politic...

“This is a tale of the fantastic, but rooted in the bleak political realities of 2020s Britain.”

Jonathan Romney reviews Mark Jenkin’s Rose of Nevada, in cinemas Friday.
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Miroirs No. 3 second look review: Fostering suspicion Petzoldian alienation blends with a strangely restorative world view in the story of Laura (Paula Beer), a woman taken in by a family who seem to be keeping a tragic secret.

“Miroirs No. 3 deploys Petzoldian alienation effects (slow pacing, enigmatic behaviour, bread-crumb trails of exposition) in the service of an essentially restorative world view”

@brofromanother.bsky.social reviews Christian Petzold’s Miroirs No. 3, out now. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

The Blue Trail review: voyage of the gran Director Gabriel Mascaro’s fantastical odyssey about a woman on the run from an ageist authoritarian government avoids the grating sentimentality of so many late-life renaissance movies.

“Following Divine Love (2019), his neon-styled religious parable set in 2027, Gabriel Mascaro has returned with another idiosyncratic vision of a near-future Brazil”

@sam-wigley.bsky.social reviews The Blue Trail, out Friday.
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Father Mother Sister Brother review: family matters Jarmusch’s surprise Golden Lion winner blends arch humour and awkwardness in a trio of short-form sibling stories with a bittersweet core.

“Jarmusch’s new film is decidedly understated, accruing its force with a virtuoso’s ability to modulate dramatic notes and switch up perspectives on a theme of homecoming”

@nicolasrapold.bsky.social reviews Golden Lion winner Father Mother Sister Brother, out now. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

The Stranger review: an insightful re-reading of Camus Actor Benjamin Voisin stars as Camus’ naive anti-hero Mersault, a man who is ill at ease with his desire, in this beautifully shot black and white rendition of this classic of existentialism.

“François Ozon’s The Stranger is a faithful adaptation of Albert Camus’s 1942 novella, yet with a subtle revisionist slant”

Jonathan Romney reviews. In cinemas this week.
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Kim Novak’s Vertigo review: a moving tribute In Alexandre O. Philippe’s documentary, Kim Novak is the one doing the looking, casting a critical eye over her career, her professional relationship with Alfred Hitchcock and the 1958 film that made ...

In Alexandre O. Philippe’s documentary, Kim Novak is the one doing the looking, casting a critical eye over her career, her professional relationship with Alfred Hitchcock and the 1958 film that made her name.

Henry K Miller reviews Kim Novak’s Vertigo, out now.
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The Drama review: to have and to scold Robert Pattinson and Zendaya star as a happily engaged couple whose idyll begins to dissolve when the bride-to-be makes a shock confession in an absurdist comedy from provocateur director Kristoffer B...

“This is a film with no right answers, whose defiant curiosity about morality and forgiveness seems fated to fuel heated arguments far beyond the cinema foyer”

Kate Stables reviews The Drama, out now. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

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Fuze review: break the bank Starring Theo James and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, David Mackenzie’s deftly edited crime caper sees a group of men attempt to rob a bank while the military and police are busy defusing a bomb.

Starring Theo James and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, David Mackenzie’s deftly edited crime caper sees a group of men attempt to rob a bank while the military and police are busy defusing a bomb.

Gayle Sequeira reviews Fuze, out Friday. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Orwell: 2+2=5 review: Big Brother, where art thou? Anchored in the dystopian prose of George Orwell, Peck’s film traces the genesis of his seminal novel and its connections to our present-day reality of surveillance, using montage to convey its simple...

Anchored in the dystopian prose of George Orwell, Raoul Peck’s film traces the genesis of his seminal novel and its connections to our present-day reality, using montage to convey its self-evident thesis.

Abiba Coulibaly reviews Orwell: 2+2=5. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Two Prosecutors review: a gripping Stalin-era drama Danger lurks around every corner in Sergei Loznitsa’s deliberately drawn-out story of a local Soviet prosecutor seeking truth in a system designed to suppress it.

Danger lurks around every corner in Sergei Loznitsa’s deliberately drawn-out story of a local Soviet prosecutor seeking truth in a system designed to suppress it.

Michael Brooke reviews Two Prosecutors, out now. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Pompei: Below the Clouds review: Shadows over Naples Vesuvius tremors, tomb raiders and patient Neapolitan Fire Brigade workers all have a part to play in Gianfranco Rosi’s poetic meditation on the fragile nature of Naples.

Vesuvius tremors, tomb raiders and patient Neapolitan Fire Brigade workers all have a part to play in Gianfranco Rosi’s poetic meditation on the fragile nature of Naples.

@filmnickjames.bsky.social reviews Pompei: Below the Clouds, out this week. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Splitsville review: puts the screw in screwball Starring Dakota Johnson and Adria Arjona, Michael Angelo Covino’s wry comedy about two couples’ experiments with ethical non-monogamy revives the screwball in delightfully slapstick fashion.

“Michael Angelo Covino’s slyly hilarious screwball comedy really gets elbow-deep into today’s marital tensions between fidelity and Fomo, pulling its rueful laughs from two messy detours into non-monogamy”

Kate Stables reviews Splitsville, out tomorrow www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Dead Man’s Wire review: trigger warning Starring Bill Skarsgård as a man who holds a shady mortgage broker’s son hostage, Gus Van Sant’s 1970s-set dramatisation of a true story taps into timely questions about class warfare, the media and t...

“Is it too much, in this world, to ask for “some goddamn catharsis, some genuine guilt” to be apportioned to the terrible people who live well on the misery of others? That’s what Tony (Bill Skarsgård) is seeking in Dead Man’s Wire”

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Project Hail Mary review: Cloying encounters Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s treacly alien buddy comedy about an astronaut stranded in outer space gives even the most curmudgeonly among us things to laugh at.

“Ryan Gosling sells it, just as Matt Damon did in The Martian, and even the most curmudgeonly among us will find things to laugh at”

Henry Miller reviews Project Hail Mary, out now.
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“How charming it is to make a silent film”: Bi Gan on Resurrection Bi Gan’s third feature is a chameleonic journey through a century of filmmaking. Here the director discusses finding inspiration in classic folk tales, and the fundamental mystery of perspective.

Bi Gan’s third feature is a chameleonic journey through a century of filmmaking. Here the director speaks to David West about finding inspiration in classic folk tales, and the fundamental mystery of perspective.
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Sinners: a bracingly original African American epic Ryan Coogler’s soulful period horror was one of the most talked about films of the year, landing the no.2 spot on our 50 best films of 2025 poll.

Sinners takes home four Oscars: Best original screenplay for Ryan Coogler, Best original score for Ludwig Göransson, Autumn Durald Arkapaw for Best cinematography and Best actor for Michael B. Jordan.

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One Battle After Another review: Revolutionary road Leonardo DiCaprio stars as an off-the-grid freedom fighter searching for his vanished teenage daughter in an absurdist action thriller that thunders along with Mad Max-like propulsion.

One Battle After Another has won Best Picture at the 98th Academy Awards.

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The art of acting: award season screen turns As the awards season reaches its climax, Adam Nayman looks deeper at the how and the why of acting excellence, as well as the who.

Ralph Fiennes for best actor? @brofromanother.bsky.social on this year's stand-out performances

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‘Long Day’s Journey into Night’ is one of my favourite films of the last 10 years, and though the follow-up is more scattershot it has its rewards. Some thoughts below

Scarlet review: 2D or not 2D Toggling between 2D and 3D animation, Hosoda Mamoru’s gender-swapped take on Hamlet takes admirably big swings but only skims the surface of its deeper thematic concerns.

CG, or not CG? Mamoru Hosoda's conflicted new epic, SCARLET, is in UK cinemas now. My review for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social:

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Resurrection review: The art of the reel Bi Gan’s vivid storytelling moves through the astral planes in Resurrection, reincarnating a rebel dreamer (Jackson Yee) across 100 years of Chinese history, experienced as six chapters each in a diff...

Bi Gan’s vivid storytelling reincarnates a rebel dreamer (Jackson Yee) across 100 years of Chinese history, experienced as six chapters each in a different cinematic style.

@arjsaj.bsky.social reviews Resurrection, in UK cinemas now. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

The Love that Remains review: Separation anxiety Hlynur Pálmason’s film about an Icelandic couple’s protracted separation is smaller in scale than his 19th-century priest-adventure epic Godland, but it is similarly spacious, drifting from “a realist...

“The question: is it better to be explicitly persona non grata with the ones you love, or to hover on the margins in perpetuity, like a ghost, for lack of anybody else to haunt?”

@brofromanother.bsky.social reviews Hlynur Pálmason’s The Love that Remains. Out now. www.bfi.org.uk/reviews/the-...

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man: Tommy Shelby takes on the Nazis in a violent Peaky Blinders spin-off Cillian Murphy reprises his role as the Brummie gangster, this time to face his estranged son Duke (Barry Keoghan), in a bloody big-screen version of the TV series that will go down well with fans.

Cillian Murphy reprises his role as Tommy Shelby, this time to face his estranged son Duke (Barry Keoghan), in a bloody big-screen version of the TV series that will go down well with fans.

@londonlou.bsky.social reviews Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

The art of acting: 2025’s greatest screen turns As the awards season reaches its climax, Adam Nayman looks deeper at the how and the why of acting excellence, as well as the who.

As the awards season reaches its climax, Adam Nayman (@brofromanother.bsky.social) looks deeper at the how and the why of acting excellence, from Ralph Fiennes’ ragged bone man in 28 Years Later to Emma Stone’s pharmaceutical mogul in Bugonia and beyond

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Everybody to Kenmure Street review Felipe Bustos Sierra’s engaging record of a large resident protest against an attempted deportation of two Sikh men in 2021 is a strong showcase of both local solidarity and proactive filmmaking.

Felipe Bustos Sierra’s engaging record of a large resident protest against in Glasglow is a strong showcase of both local solidarity and proactive filmmaking.

Tim Hayes reviews Everybody to Kenmure Street, opening film at @glasgowfilmfest.bsky.social www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

“We wanted to give the characters a chance to gaze back”: Mascha Schilinski on Sound of Falling Set over the 20th and 21st centuries, Mascha Schilinski’s unsettling drama tells the stories of four German girls, exploring cycles of family secrecy and abuse. Here she explains her fascination with ...

Set over the 20th and 21st centuries, Mascha Schilinski’s unsettling drama tells the stories of four German girls, exploring cycles of family secrecy and abuse. Here she explains her fascination with intergenerational trauma and the idea of “phantom pain”.
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Sight and Sound: the April 2026 issue On the cover: Jodie Foster, Ethan Hawke, Daniel Day-Lewis and the legendary Kim Novak on the art of acting. Plus actors including Isabelle Huppert, Wagner Moura, Sopé Dìsírù and Jennifer Lawrence nomi...

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Queen at Sea review: a nuanced exploration of dementia Lance Hammer’s film starring Juliette Binoche as the concerned daughter of a mother with advancing dementia presents an unsentimental yet highly empathetic meditation on the limits of love in the face...

“It’s a brave decision to hinge a film on the topic of sex and consent among elderly people. It’s a testament to the unflinchingly committed performances of the central trio that Queen at Sea never feels designed to shock”

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