Two 1990s romances turn 30, Mike Leigh’s return to modern life, and a nailbiting Kurosawa thriller. What are you watching this weekend?

Kazik Radwanski’s wry Canadian romance follows Mara, a disillusioned creative writing professor, as she reconnects with a man from her past who’s now a successful author.

Children’s experience and tense family drama have been at the heart of many of the greatest Iranian films. Ahead of the release of the Oscar-nominated thriller The Seed of the Sacred Fig, we recommend ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives a fearless performance in Mike Leigh’s empathetic portrait of the outrageously hostile Pansy, whose hardened façade masks a real fragility.

Alongside the latest round of awards, the UK Global Screen Fund has published its Multi-Year Evaluation, which looked into the process, impact and economic value of the fund from 2021-2024. Undertaken ...

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From a pulp novel by Ed McBain, Akira Kurosawa fashioned a gripping procedural thriller that ranks among his greatest contemporary-set films. Jasper Sharp digs into a tale of extortion, social ...

Gavin Millar obituary: distinguished film and TV director, presenter and critic ...

In 1952, the Sight and Sound team had the novel idea of asking critics to name the greatest films of all time. The tradition became decennial, increasing in size and prestige as the decades passed.

Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable strike sparks in one of the first, greatest and – despite the American censor – sexiest of romantic screwball comedies. “As buoyant and elegant as bubbles in a glass ...

Every decade since 1992, Sight and Sound has complemented its celebrated critics’ poll by formally sounding out the world’s leading directors on the ten films they believe to be the greatest of all ...

1974 United Kingdom, Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Spain, France ...