Lists
24 films to watch on TV this Christmas
So much for 2024... time to hit the sofa.
By David Parkinson
24 films to watch on TV this Christmas
Features and reviews
Discover the latest from the BFI, the UK’s lead organisation for film, television and the moving image.
Features
Britain’s first blonde bombshell: celebrating the centenary of Christine Norden
By Josephine Botting
Obituaries
Marisa Paredes obituary: international Spanish star and vital Almodóvar collaborator
By Maria Delgado
Reviews
Nickel Boys: RaMell Ross’ radically inventive second feature
By Simran Hans
Reviews
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl: a thrilling return for Feathers McGraw
By Nick Bradshaw
Reviews
Better Man: Chimpanzee Robbie Williams brings excitement to an otherwise conventional biopic
By Alex Dudok de Wit
10 great
10 great British Christmas films
By David Parkinson
Features
Christmas cooking in video games: festive stress with baked in fun
By George Bass
Interviews
“Florence gave birth eight times that day”: John Crowley on his multiple timeline romcom We Live in Time
By Lou Thomas
Polls
The best video essays of 2024
By Queline Meadows, Will Webb and others
Obituaries
Malcolm Le Grice obituary: influential British artist and experimental filmmaker
By William Fowler
From the Sight and Sound archive
New York letter: Towards a spontaneous cinema
By Jonas Mekas
Features
Uncommon Threads: how a new BFI Player collection celebrates time on the sofa
Uncommon Threads: how a new BFI Player collection celebrates time on the sofaBlack Film Bulletin
Festival gems
By Grace Barber-Plentie
5 things to watch
5 things to watch this weekend – 13 to 15 December
By Sam Wigley
Black Film Bulletin
Speak-easy: Black hair and make-up on set
By Ann Ogbomo
Lists
The best British television of 2024
By Josephine Botting, Ros Cranston and others
Reviews
Allen Sunshine: a quiet debut about a Montreal man’s emergence from grief
By Jason Anderson
Interviews
Sammo Hung looks back on a life of action: “We risked our lives, but we really had no choice”
By Nick Newman
10 great
10 great animated fantasy films
By Rory Doherty
Reviews
The Universal Theory: a deliciously cryptic quantum thriller
By Spenser Tomson
Features
2024: the year in documentary film
By Nick Bradshaw
Features
2024: the year in late style
By Jonathan Romney
Features
2024: the year in animation
By Alex Dudok de Wit
Features
2024: the year in AI
By Dominic Lees
Features
2024: the year in TV
By Andrew Male
Features
Films to watch out for in 2025
By Arjun Sajip
Obituaries
In memoriam: obituaries of those who died in 2024
By Bob Mastrangelo
Polls
The best films of 2024 – all the votes
The best films of 2024 – all the votesReviews
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim: an epic anime replay of signature Lord of the Rings moments
By Graham Fuller