Sight & Sound

Leigh Singer Sight & Sound Oct 30, 2026 For a film about accepting and embodying the mystical, Wildwood’s magic is rooted in its dazzling craftmanship rather than the transcendental power of its story. Go to Full Review Wildwood (2026) 99% - -

Richard Combs Sight & Sound Oct 30, 2026 For all its violence, the motive power of Assault on Precinct 13 is a kind of playfulness. Go to Full Review Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) 92% 80%

Adam Nayman Sight & Sound Oct 27, 2026 Mostly, though, Whalefall has a stolid, workmanlike quality that permits more lapses in taste and tone than one might like, including a corny coda that undermines the book’s startling, exhilarating hard stop... Go to Full Review Whalefall (2026) 74% - -

George Townsend Sight & Sound Oct 27, 2026 Ultimately, Nightborn plants its ideas too close together, leaving multiple storylines fighting for sunlight, unable to fully sprout. Go to Full Review Nightborn (2026) 71% - -

Tom Milne Sight & Sound Oct 16, 2026 A film which maintains the courage of its convictions to the bitter end is rare enough; even rarer is one which pursues its course with such relentless logic. Go to Full Review Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 97% 94%

Nick Bradshaw Sight & Sound Oct 16, 2026 It may not assuage, but its solidarity with people who persist with their vocation and lives’ passions, fighting against the current—a group that includes Rennie, Wilson the seal researcher and (as Wilson points out) Finlay herself-- is salutary. Go to Full Review All Rivers Spill Their Stories to the Sea (2026) - - - -

Arlene Croce Sight & Sound Oct 16, 2026 Lolita has everything it needed to be as brilliant and beautiful as the novel, except great direction. Vladimir Nabokov's screenplay is a model of adaptation -- resourceful, economical, light-bodied. Go to Full Review Lolita (1962) 82% 84%

Nick James Sight & Sound Oct 14, 2026 ... we are meant to have a constantly changing relationship to what we are watching as the film dances its playful milonga on the fine border between wry, fascinated engagement and fatigue. Go to Full Review Life of Jorge Luis Borges (2026) - - - -

Tim Pulleine Sight & Sound Oct 14, 2026 Harlan County, U.S.A. declines analysis, but its imagery provides a basis on which one might be begun. Go to Full Review Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976) 100% 92%

Gavin Lambert Sight & Sound Oct 13, 2026 This shrewd, engrossing, complete-in-itself melodrama is the kind of film one had begun to think was no longer possible to make in Hollywood. Go to Full Review The Killing (1956) 96% 92%

Henry K. Miller Sight & Sound Oct 12, 2026 Paul Greengrass’s 14th-century historical drama keeps the action moving, but leaves its character development in the mud. Go to Full Review The Uprising (2026) 57% - -

Rachel Pronger Sight & Sound Oct 8, 2026 Weard is writing a new trans cinematic language, distinct from the flattening mainstream. Go to Full Review Castration Movie Chapter iii.ii Junior Ghosts - Premorphic Drift; a fragmentary passage (2026) - - - -

Travis Jeppesen Sight & Sound Oct 7, 2026 Now, thanks to the vital piece of cinematic history that is Queer Edward II, the restlessly inquisitive and gregarious spirit behind these films has also been preserved. Go to Full Review Queer Edward II (2026) 100% - -

Sophie Monks Kaufman Sight & Sound Oct 6, 2026 While it is melancholy, it is also joyfully funny and the chill wind of human frailty that runs through it only outlines how enjoyable it is to be here now, with your favourite people. Go to Full Review Tender Loving Care (2026) 100% - -

Philip Concannon Sight & Sound Oct 6, 2026 Iñárritu’s big, unsubtle film about an impending climate catastrophe caused by reckless oil drilling is short on laughs, but has a powerful weapon in Tom Cruise’s barnstorming performance as the ageing Texan oil tycoon Digger Rockwell. Go to Full Review Digger (2026) 53% - -

Neil Young Sight & Sound Sep 29, 2026 Jesse Eisenberg brings a Sirkian touch to this wildly entertaining film about a timid New Jersey woman who throws herself headfirst into a new thespian life after she’s cast in her local musical. Go to Full Review The Debut (2026) 91% - -

Alexander Mooney Sight & Sound Sep 29, 2026 Wollner's film is majestic and mysterious, spectral and sweet, perfused with the sort of ambiguity that can puncture a hermetic seal, and let the light pour in. Go to Full Review Everytime (2026) 96% - -

Jonathan Romney Sight & Sound Sep 25, 2026 Heart of the Beast marks Ayer’s return to more contemplative territory, to something that, as adventure movies go, could loosely count as art cinema. Go to Full Review Heart of the Beast (2026) 84% - -

Blake Simons Sight & Sound Sep 23, 2026 It speaks to the idea that, much as we might like to rewrite the past in search of a more palatable truth, the act of revision will lead you back to reality. Go to Full Review Look Back (2026) 90% - -

Leslie Felperin Sight & Sound Sep 22, 2026 [Steven E. de Souza] maintains the action at maximum speed, like a virtuoso 11-year-old who has mastered all the cheats on the original game. Go to Full Review Street Fighter (1994) 20% 20%