Sight and Sound magazine

Established in 1932. Published by @BFI. Home of the once-a-decade Greatest Films of All Time poll.

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NEW ISSUE 💛

Marilyn Monroe at 100 💎
Brazilian cinema in focus 🇧🇷
At the movies with del Toro 👑

Get your copy now: https://t.co/UlE0QfiVlg

See what's inside: https://t.co/cYhs9U9NIk

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“Think of it as Premium-Class Mumblecore, with tempting extra features like ‘Foreign location; retro European art-cinema detailing; famous singer moonlighting as an actress’”

Kate Stables reviews Erupcja, out now. https://t.co/8s82bDjdnM

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"Even though I’m more associated with gangster movies, I’ve always kind of preferred cop movies… The Rip one of the finest examples”

Now online in full: Quentin Tarantino on The Rip

https://t.co/okw2vBeI9p

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“It’s impossible to not to think of Kubrick’s classic The Shining while navigating Exit 8s meticulously liminal spaces”

“To my knowledge, nobody has made a walking-simulator out of La notte, or Sátántangó… Points of crossover do exist, however.”

@brofromanother on the winding cinematic hallways that lead to Exit 8: https://t.co/kPvrr02egq

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When director Laurent Cantet passed away, his longtime collaborator Robin Campillo stepped in to finish his final film, Enzo, a portrait of tetchy adolescence that gracefully blends their directorial styles.

@GuyLodge reviews Enzo, in cinemas Friday. https://t.co/dFGhJDaE39

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I'm delighted to tell those of you who asked that @SightSoundmag has put my cover story "The Marilyn Moment: Monroe at 100" online in its entirely. https://t.co/tAQr2X6ygb

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“An impressionistic and intimate documentary featuring Peruvian wunderkind torero Andrés Roca Rey which is effectively A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bullfighter”

@BohemiaStable reviews Albert Serra’s Afternoons of Solitude, streaming this week. https://t.co/hQOM3wka7b

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“The cultural prominence of 'old' movies may be shrinking, but Marilyn's face is still one of the world's most famous. People barely out of their teens, who have never seen a movie made before the Harry Potter series, can identify her.

“That has, paradoxically, hurt the way her talent is assessed, not helped. There's SO much baggage with Monroe. Not just the misfortunes, or the mistakes that Marilyn herself made over time – she was, like all of us, doing her best – but the weight of rumours, stereotypes, conspiracy theories, all of it magnified by the sad fact of her early death.

“Such crazy and ever-changing fame can put people off. They roll their eyes and claim they'd rather leave her to gossip shows, obsessives, influencers and rich people angling for the red carpet at the Met Gala. But avoiding the Marilyn industry is one thing; avoiding her films is needless self-denial. The world doesn't offer us much pleasure right now, and there are few things in cinema more joyous than discovering just how good Marilyn could be.”

Farran Smith Nehme, writing in S&S's newest issue, which pays tribute to the great actress.

Get your copy: https://t.co/GO57f4VhtY

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Marilyn Monroe, born 100 years ago today

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In the June @SightSoundmag devoted to our beloved Marilyn Monroe & her 100 years, this June 1st, I wrote about Huston's The Misfits & Marilyn's complex, moving performance. Also, check out the fantastic cover piece by @selfstyledsiren & all the Marilyn features inside.

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“The point of a creepypasta is that it’s unsatisfying – unfinished and potentially infinite. What works best in Backrooms is an elaboration on the random, somehow unsettling image of an unpeopled space that started the phenomenon”

@AnnoDracula reviews. https://t.co/LbAo40PczG

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Emmanuel Marre’s daring World War II drama A Man of His Time was selected by Sight and Sound as the best film of Cannes 2026

Read our review in full below

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Virginie Efira and Okamoto Tao jointly won the Best Actress award at #Cannes2026 for their performances in Hamaguchi Ryusuke’s All of a Sudden.

Read @NicolasRapold’s review of the film here. https://t.co/xktUxas5OA

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From a school trip to Naples, to a tour of Bangkok’s Buddhist temples, to a plane ride with John Travolta

Eleven critics on their favourite discoveries from Cannes 2026, below

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“Paper Tiger is the kind of low-stakes crime drama we don’t get enough of these days and which James Gray excels at”

John Bleasdale reviews from #Cannes2026 https://t.co/V83Av9MijA

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“Mungiu weakens the impact of his moral play by treating his targets the same way they treat the Gheorghius: building a case against them based on a dehumanising characterisation.”

Sophie Monks Kaufman reviews Palme d'Or-winner Fjord. https://t.co/FI5Fu7QoSY

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Cristian Mungiu has won the Palme d’Or at Cannes for the second time with Fjord, a drama exploring religious persecution in a small Scandinavian town.

Read on for the @SightSoundmag review by Sophie Monks Kaufman. #Cannes2026 https://t.co/FI5Fu7QoSY

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Sight and Sound editors Katie McCabe, Isabel Stevens and Thomas Flew have joined Devika Girish and guests on the @FilmComment podcast this #Cannes2026 to discuss the latest premieres – from Fatherland to Fjord to La bola negra

Head to the new Film Comment site now to listen https://t.co/b0azwoL4kN