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  • The best video essays of 2019

    Our annual survey of moving-image criticism in movie form features recommendations from 39 essayists and experts, recommending videos that explore the powers and possibilities of cinema and more. Ariel Avissar, Will DiGravio and Grace Lee introduce the poll.

    Ariel Avissar, Will DiGravio, Grace Lee
    Friday 10 January 2020

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  • The best TV series of 2019

    Our inaugural critics’ poll of the top ten television series of 2019 offers a tantalising mix of comedy, horror and drama – and holds up a mirror to our age. See how 37 television critics judged the year, including Molly Haskell’s extended take on Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag.

    James Bell, Isabel Stevens, Alex Davidson, Christina Newland, So Mayer, Caspar Salmon, Nikki Baughan, Molly Haskell
    Monday 6 January 2020

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  • The best films of 2019 – all the votes

    We asked 100 contributors – British and international – to pick the ten best new films they’d seen in 2019. Their choices are here – all 353 of them!

    Sight & Sound contributors
    Monday 23 December 2019

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    The 50 best films of 2019

    Our poll of 100 Sight & Sound contributors has produced a list of 50 outstanding reasons for film watching – capped by a triumphant top movie that finds its British female director both looking back and moving forward.


    Friday 29 November 2019

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  • The best video essays of 2018

    Straight from the firehose: 200 or so of 2018’s most outstanding videographic criticism, as chosen by 47 top practitioners, curators and scholars. Introduced by Irina Trocan and David Verdeure.

    David Verdeure, Irina Trocan
    Sunday 20 January 2019

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  • The best Blu-rays (and DVDs) of 2018

    2018’s home cinema packages reached Olympian heights of splendour and sumptuousness. We asked 37 critics and DVD curators to pick their highlights.


    Tuesday 1 January 2019

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    The 40 best films of 2018

    Our movie of the year is in black and white and went (almost) straight to a certain global web-streaming service.


    Tuesday 11 December 2018

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  • The best video essays of 2017

    It’s been another boom year for the art of movie-based movie criticism – for better and sometimes worse. Kevin B. Lee and David Verdeure asked 33 top practitioners and scholars to pick out the best.

    Kevin B. Lee, David Verdeure
    Thursday 21 December 2017

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  • The best Blu-rays (and DVDs) of 2017

    Thirty-nine critics and curators nominate their home-cinema releases of the year, from Baron Munchausen to Vampir Cuadecuc.

    Sight & Sound contributors
    Tuesday 12 December 2017

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  • The best documentaries of 2016: cinematic nonfiction in the year of nonfact

    As the world entered the post-truth era, documentary film artists embraced ever more levels of formal awareness and complexity. Obfuscation, or the only way through the media maze, asks Robert Greene? Plus: the 25 best documentaries of the year.

    Robert Greene
    Friday 13 January 2017

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