Trevor Johnston
All articles by Trevor Johnston
Interviews
‘Saoirse Ronan was brilliant at improv and running with the moment’: Tom George on See How They Run
The director of BBC3’s This Country on his debut feature, an Agatha Christie-inflected period comedy whodunnit.
By Trevor Johnston
‘Saoirse Ronan was brilliant at improv and running with the moment’: Tom George on See How They Run
Reviews
Black Bird: nerve-wracking prison thriller
By Trevor Johnston
Reviews
Escape from Mogadishu blends a blockbuster production with a diplomatic history lesson
By Trevor Johnston
Reviews
Belfast is Kenneth Branagh’s flawed but moving portrait of the Troubles
By Trevor Johnston
Where to begin
Where to begin with François Truffaut
By Trevor Johnston
Reviews
Hellbound challenges ideas about faith and free will in six harrowing episodes
By Trevor Johnston
Reviews
Vigil is a high pressure cop show set inside a nuclear submarine
By Trevor Johnston
Reviews
Gagarine blasts a crumbling French housing estate into orbit
By Trevor Johnston
Reviews
Stillwater sends Matt Damon on a mission to Marseille to free his jailed daughter
By Trevor Johnston
Festivals
The Storms of Jeremy Thomas is a perfect primer for the producer’s portfolio
By Trevor Johnston
Reviews
Maeve is a startlingly radical Irish experiment ripe for rediscovery
By Trevor Johnston
Reviews
Halston charts the rise and fall of an American fashion icon
By Trevor Johnston
Reviews
Henry Glassie: Field Work finds humanity in folk art
By Trevor Johnston
Reviews
Bloodlands dredges up Northern Ireland’s troubled past
By Trevor Johnston
Reviews
The Drifters is a stylish road movie cramped by little England
By Trevor Johnston
Reviews
The Dissident traces a detailed portrait of Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
By Trevor Johnston
Reviews
News of the World is a plodding fable of the reconstruction
By Trevor Johnston
From the Sight and Sound archive
Remake/remodel: 45 weird and wonderful alternative film cuts
By James Bell, Tom Charity and others
Reviews
The Serpent is a heady 1970s-set portrait of a globetrotting playboy killer
By Trevor Johnston
Reviews
Mayor carefully undercuts received notions about contemporary Palestine
By Trevor Johnston
Reviews
County Lines is fresh British drama that crosses new cinematic borders
By Trevor Johnston
Best of 2020
Collective takes a scalpel to the contagion of corruption
By Trevor Johnston
Reviews
Hillbilly Elegy is white trash for tourists
By Trevor Johnston