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Steven Spielberg returns to the theme of alien visitors with this all-star, much-anticipated blockbuster.
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The Greatest Films of All Time issue
Once a decade the magazine asks critics to select the best films ever made. Explore the results in a special edition.
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Sight and Sound: the Summer 2026 issue
On the cover: 21st-century sci-fi special – from dystopias to dreamworlds, the essential science-fiction films of the millennium so far Inside: Cannes bulletin including interviews with Sandra Hüller and Bruce Dern, Sumitra Peries interviewed by Mark Cousins and we revisit David Robinson's 1966 visit to the set of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey
“The whole film is centred upon Hockney’s art”: A Bigger Splash reviewed in 1975
By Philip French
Here be tourists: how a Scottish black comedy satirises cultural Disneyfication
By Katherine McLaughlin
10 great football films of the 21st century
By Katherine McLaughlin
30 years of Mike Leigh’s Secrets & Lies: how the London locations look today
By Adam Scovell
A close encounter with Steven Spielberg
By Richard Combs
The Dreamed Adventure: Valeska Grisebach’s haunting slow-burn western unearths dirty dealings in rural Bulgaria
By Savina Petkova
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