Reality and fantasy blur for two isolated suburban teens who bond over a mysterious, Buffy-esque 1990s TV show in trans director Jane Schoenbrun’s fantastically inventive second feature.
BFI Flare 2024 preview for Sight & Sound
BFI Flare 2024 includes two powerful features about trans experiences of family life, Close To You and Crossing.
All of Us Strangers review for Sight & Sound
Andrew Haigh’s deeply affecting, time-slipping feature centres on a middle-aged gay writer grappling with the profound consequences of grief and structural homophobia.
Passages review for Sight & Sound
Ira Sachs’s drama, starring Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw and Adèle Exarchopolous, explores three characters’ jostling wants and needs
Lie With Me review for Sight & Sound
Pretty Red Dress review for Sight & Sound
Dionne Edwards’s debut feature deftly balances a family’s competing desires, vulnerabilities and insensitivities
Beau is Afraid review for Sight & Sound
Ari Aster’s overblown pseudo-surreal picaresque odyssey is less a story about human beings in human situations than a trippy gamut of threats and feelings. It’s a lot.
BFI Flare 2023 preview for Sight & Sound
London’s celebration of queer cinema includes a tribute to the pioneering British director of 1978’s Nighthawks.
Magic Mike’s Last Dance review for Sight & Sound
The third film about the male entertainer played by Channing Tatum feels like an uncoordinated misstep.
Tropical Malady article for Sight & Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time issue 2023
An introduction to a captivating work that defies straightforward understanding, and suggests understanding may be overrated.
