Film, the measure of all things

At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans (he stern, she gentle) raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life. Lots of atmosphere, very sentimental…

Once a decade Sight & Sound asks critics to select the Greatest Films of All Time. We’re proud that, thanks to its longevity and critical reach, this poll has come to be regarded as the most trusted guide there is to the canon of cinema greats, not to mention a barometer of changing critical tastes. Famously, Citizen Kane topped our poll every decade from 1962 to 2002…

Film Comment’s annual end-of-year survey was released today with Josh and Benny Safdie’s Good Time, Terence Davies’s A Quiet Passion, and Olivier Assayas’s Personal Shopper taking the top spots among films released in 2017.

From epic blockbusters, to indie comedies or mind-melting foreign dramas - with the Movie Machine, we'll be charting the best movies of 2...

Pop reviews and in-depth analyses of current and classic films from around the world.

In my mother’s family scrapbook, there is a tiny box camera snapshot of a very young Robert staring at the Luftwaffe-smashed “mole” leading out to sea from the port of Boulogne – sixteen years after British troops evacuated under fire in May 1940 as their comrades stood on the beaches of neighbouring Dunkirk.

The blockbuster purports to be a historical portrayal, but in fact it’s a whitewash. And these decisions help corrode societal attitudes, writes Sunny Singh

Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster is an innovative film, but not historically authentic

We pit the Dunkirk movie vs. the true story of the Dunkirk evacuation during WW2. Read our fact-checking and see Dunkirk rescue photos.

A skilled director of visceral, real-world horrors, Bigelow dramatizes a 1967 incident that left 3 young black men dead at the hands of the police. The result is unflinching and effective.

Testimony from the officers' trials backs up Kathryn Bigelow's interpretation

Here’s what’s true-to-life and what’s artistic license in Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal’s new movie.

Filmmaker Nathan Eddy has created a movie documenting architect Helmut Jahn's postmodern James R Thompson Center government building in Chicago, in a bid to protect the postmodern building from demolition.

Why the latest film in the galaxy-spanning franchise has proved so unexpectedly polarizing.

The acclaimed documentary filmmaker's new Netflix show is an interesting, if overlong, history lesson

Pop reviews and in-depth analyses of current and classic films from around the world.

Commissioned by French production companies for the turn of the millennium.

Peter Stack, Chronicle Staff Critic

Holden says there are flashes of sardonic humor, but the film is built on humor. Hmmm.

I am writing in the closing days of December 1999. There are those who expect an apocalypse in a week or so, when Y2K shuts down the power grid and roving bands of carnivorous Americans stalk heavily...

Over the weekend, even as most of us were celebrating the fact that a new Star Wars movie did not in any way suck, some portions of the internet got sucked into a pointless, silly debate. Is Rey, the...

When fantasy sagas never end, we see the cycles of brutality and totalitarianism that fuel them don't, either