“Rose Glass’s full-on second feature has a hungry heart: its pastiche of amour fou, roid-rage vengeance, and small-town-gangster melodrama can surge with passionate extremes”

@nicolasrapold reviews Love Lies Bleeding, in cinemas Friday. bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…

“Tennis, in case it wasn’t obvious, represents desire, and it’s in this erotic vacuum that Guadagnino, with a nimble script written by Justin Kuritzkes, unleashes the film’s games”.

Beatrice Loayza reviews Challengers, out now. bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…

Films from Italy and beyond prefigured the themes and formal innovation of neorealism, a style that would become one of cinema’s most influential movements. theb.fi/3Uh3UWn

Mildly surprised given my hatred of Luca’s previous two films, but…Challengers, good! Reviewed it for Sight and Sound magazine

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Desolate melodrama There’s Always Tomorrow, directed by Douglas Sirk ( #botd ), offers a happy ending in which everything is fine and no one is happy, writes Guy Lodge buff.ly/3UxgCSk

Luca Guadagnino takes some big swings in this witty, frenetic three-hander starring Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist, where the sexual tension plays out on and off the tennis court.

Beatrice Loayza reviews Challengers. In cinemas today. buff.ly/3w9ByFu

Pat Collins approaches John McGahern’s final novel about a couple’s return to rural Ireland with the attentive eye of a documentarian, encouraging viewers to adjust to a slower pace of life.

Philip Concannon reviews That They May Face the Rising Sun. bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…

On Al Pacino’s birthday, we look back at Philip French’s exploration of the burgeoning cop movie sub-genre, from our Spring 1974 issue buff.ly/3s8NZ1U

Paola Cortellesi’s neorealist-styled debut – already a breakout hit in Italy – puts the spotlight on women’s post-war subjugation with a dark melodrama that’s full of formal playfulness.

Kate Stables reviews There’s Still Tomorrow, in cinemas Friday. bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…

New documentary Fantastic Machine spans the birth of camera obscura to the invention of TikTok using a cursory approach that allows for little insight.

Jordan Cronk 🥀 reviews. Out now. bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…

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Its schematics may be obvious, but Zoljargal Purevdash’s debut about a gifted teenager living in the impoverished yurt district of Mongolia’s capital shows great ambition and promise.

Tom Charity reviews If Only I Could Hibernate, out now. buff.ly/4axOi7V

A gorgeous,complex film — Breillat in great form. On LAST SUMMER for ⁦Sight and Sound magazine⁩ bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…

Catherine Breillat’s latest plays with ideas of attraction, repulsion and self-delusion through Anne (Léa Drucker), a lawyer who finds herself inappropriately drawn to her teenage stepson.

Ela Bittencourt reviews Last Summer, on BFI Player from 22 April. bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…

Daisy Ridley stars as an introverted Oregon officer worker who has elaborate visions of her own death in this slight but gentle story of a tentative search for human connection.

David Katz reviews Sometimes I Think About Dying, in cinemas tomorrow. bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…

From Brief Encounter (“harsh, cruel and lovely”) to Anatomy of a Fall (“gripping, sharply intelligent”), read Sight and Sound’s original verdict on 15 of Cannes Film Festival’s biggest prizewinners buff.ly/3P6qOMZ

“While The Harder They Fall was, structurally speaking, a largely conventional spaghetti western, The Book of Clarence takes an unruly approach to a decidedly unfashionable kind of film: the Biblical epic”

Arjun Sajip reviews The Book of Clarence.
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“Ford is a director with whom things are either right or wrong.”

In our Autumn 1956 issue, Lindsay Anderson ( #botd , and writing before he directed If.... and O Lucky Man!) was disappointed by John Ford’s now-classic western buff.ly/4aBjyD7

Two musicologists obsessed with sourcing field recordings of Irish folk ballads uncover the dark secrets of an ancient song in Paul Duane’s chaotic and original low-budget folk horror.

Roger Luckhurst reviews All You Need is Death, in cinemas this Friday. buff.ly/4aBSUde

Its schematics may be obvious, but Zoljargal Purevdash’s debut about a gifted teenager living in the impoverished yurt district of Mongolia’s capital shows great ambition and promise.

Tom Charity reviews If Only I Could Hibernate, in cinemas Friday. bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…