Sight & Sound articles
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About Endlessness: Roy Andersson teases his new film in Seville
The Swedish director revealed footage from his long-awaited new film, which is due to premiere in 2019 and appears to complement his highly regarded ‘Living’ trilogy, reports Jonathan Romney.
Thursday 22 November 2018 -
From the Magazine
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald review – a bottomless and bewildering adventure
J.K. Rowling’s wizarding universe expands further in this overplotted caper, which offers sumptuous visuals but only scraps of substance, writes Pamela Hutchinson.
Tuesday 20 November 2018 -
Stan Lee obituary: Marvel’s master web-spinner
Not just the ‘cameo king’ of Marvel’s universe-conquering movies, Stan Lee was a company lifer whose rich tapestry of multi-dimensional comic heroes and villains elevated the art, writes Kim Newman.
Tuesday 13 November 2018 -
All killer, almost no filler: Arrow Video FrightFest Halloween All-Dayer 2018
This year’s day-long horror marathon offered several self-reflexive pleasures and very few tired tropes. Nothing scary about that, reports Anton Bitel.
Friday 9 November 2018 -
The idea and the image: Cambridge Film Festival 2018
This year’s festival drew large crowds to see a diverse range of international films, many of which wrestled with the ethical questions haunting revered works of art – while others, perhaps wisely, chose not to, reports Henry K. Miller.
Friday 9 November 2018 -
They Shall Not Grow Old review: Peter Jackson brings controversial colour to WWI footage
Does Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson’s colourising of archive film of WWI soldiers make them more or less real to us? The critics and archivists who argue it’s a travesty have got it wrong, says Ian Christie.
Friday 9 November 2018 -
From the Magazine
Film of the week: Widows takes the heist thriller for a spectacular ride
Viola Davis leads a gang of novice female crooks in Steve McQueen’s slick and intelligent blockbuster, which has plenty to say for itself over the gunfire, writes Pamela Hutchinson.
Thursday 8 November 2018 -
Thunder Road review: American indie portrait of a policeman on the verge of a nervous breakdown
Jim Cummings makes an impressive debut with this tragicomic tale of a police officer struggling to stay afloat in the wake of divorce, a near-breakdown and bereavement, finds Anjana Janardhan.
Tuesday 6 November 2018 -
Men in focus: five British documentaries at LFF 2018
Many of the new documentaries at this year’s London Film Festival showed us men under pressure: from boyband stars reconciling themselves to their past in the spotlight to a group of factory workers fighting for their jobs, writes Caitlin Quinlan.
Thursday 1 November 2018 -
Mirai review: Hosoda Mamoru freestyles a child’s exploration of sibling-hood
Pulling no punches in its child’s-eye view of everyday emotional turmoil, Hosoda Mamoru’s latest anime odyssey might be his most unconventional film yet, writes Andrew Osmond.
Thursday 1 November 2018
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