Sacrilege and censorship: a Ken Russell’s The Devils watchlist – get Devils ready with a list of further viewing, selected by the S&S team How many have you seen?

NEW ISSUE! KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS Sex, power, hysteria and sacrilege - the masterpiece returns as you’ve never seen it before Featuring new writing from Mark Kermode, Linda Ruth Williams and @RealGDT + an unearthed 1995 interview with writer-director Russell, a new interview with continuity supervisor Ann Skinner, and behind-the-scenes images from the BFI National Archive

“I never made a movie to just go make a movie, it was always an exploration of filmmaking” Last year, we sat down with Tom Cruise to look back over his career, from a childhood play pretend as Charlie Chaplin and John Wayne, to the culmination of the decades-spanning Mission Impossible series – and the Iñárritu collaboration beyond Link below

Legendary British producer Jeremy Thomas, who has died aged 77, helped bring to the screen some of arthouse cinema's most enduring films, from Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1982) to The Last Emperor (1987) to Crash (1996) to Sexy Beast (2000). In tribute, we republish this extended interview, conducted in 2014 bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/i…

The female gaze: 100 overlooked films directed by women In 2015, we asked 100 critics and filmmakers, including Jane Campion, Greta Gerwig, Claire Denis, Isabelle Huppert, Agnès Varda, Tilda Swinton, to nominate a film by a female director they believe has been forgotten or unfairly overlooked How many have you seen?

Sight and Sound magazine is officially on @Letterboxd ! Follow our account at the link below, where you’ll find watchlists, reviews and features, with new and archival material dropping every week. letterboxd.com/sightsoundmag

Sight and Sound magazine is officially on @Letterboxd! Follow our account at the link below, where you’ll find watchlists, reviews and features, with new and archival material dropping every week. letterboxd.com/sightsoundmag

Over 90 years of our cover films, in one list! Track the history of cinema through the decades, and see which films made the cut How many of the 522 films featured on the cover of Sight and Sound since 1932 have you seen?

Tony wrote for Sight and Sound for more than 50 years. You can find a selection of this writing online, including interviews with Edward Yang, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Wong Kar Wai, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Bong Joon Ho: bfi.org.uk/profile/tony-rayn…

In 2014, we asked hundreds of documentary experts to vote for the Greatest Documentaries of All Time. These were the results? How many of the top 50 have you seen?

And the winner is… ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER Paul Thomas Anderson’s incendiary portrait of modern America has been voted best film of 2025 by our critics Anderson responds to winning the poll: “Fuck yeah! It takes my breath away a bit, honestly. I remember reading Sight and Sound, as we all do, from when I was so young, and now to have a film that they called the best film of the year… it’s amazing. I can’t wait to see what it looks like in print. My first response was ‘Fuck yeah!’, and I stand by that!”