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The best DVDs and Blu-rays of 2015

Twenty-six critics and connoisseurs recommend their five best home-cinema releases of the past year.

Sight & Sound contributors
Tuesday 12 January 2016

Polls and surveys
David Bowie on film

Jane Giles surveys the late David Bowie’s screen roles across four decades.

Monday 11 January 2016

The pictures
From the Magazine

Film of the week: The Hateful Eight

The long and windy trail: wagonmaster Tarantino invites you to ride shotgun on a prodigal revengers’ ramble, says Michael Atkinson.

Friday 8 January 2016

Reviews and recommendations
From the Magazine

Film of the week: Joy

David O. Russell and Jennifer Lawrence bring their screwball brio to the saga of a woman’s entrepreneurial triumph over family dysfunction and marketplace chicanery, writes Graham Fuller.

Thursday 31 December 2015

Reviews and recommendations
Back door Santas: the Christmas musical underground

Mitchell Kezin’s Jingle Bell Rocks! uncovers the subcultural orbits of soul, blues, jazz and rap around the Christmas tree, finds Sam Davies.

Sam Davies
Wednesday 23 December 2015

Features
Video essay: Kicking against the chick flicks – reclaiming the Hollywood romcom

Homogenised, segregated and stupefied, the mainstream romantic comedy has never been less sexy. Leigh Singer on how to get its freak back on.

Friday 18 December 2015

Sight & Sound video
From the Magazine

Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens review: J.J. Abrams brings her in safely

Nick Pinkerton on JJ Abrams’ careful stewardry of an almost sacrosanct franchise.

Thursday 17 December 2015

Reviews and recommendations
In the city of scarce muses: Turin 2015

Wandering wives and wondering husbands in Yaelle Kayam’s Mountain and José Luis Guirín’s The Academy of the Muses were the highlights of this year’s Turin Film Festival, reports Nick James.

Wednesday 16 December 2015

Festivals
From the Magazine

Nora Ephron: queen of hearts

Nora Ephron made films that combined caustic wit with happy endings – and helped define the modern romantic comedy. Hannah McGill remembers the comedian who anticipated our online culture of disclosure and influenced a generation of female comics.

Thursday 10 December 2015

Features
From the Magazine

Film of the week: The Forbidden Room

Guy Maddin plays pulp-poetic Exquisite Corpse with the ghosts of cinema lost, writes Tony Rayns.

Thursday 10 December 2015

Reviews and recommendations