Sight and Sound 2018. All the films reviewed in Volume 28.
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- DirectorDebra GranikStarsThomasin McKenzieBen FosterJeffery RifflardA father and his seventeen-year-old daughter are living an ideal existence in a vast urban park in Portland, Oregon when a small mistake derails their lives forever.
- DirectorBen FalconeStarsMelissa McCarthyMatt WalshMolly GordonAfter her husband abruptly asks for a divorce, a middle-aged mother returns to college in order to complete her degree.
- DirectorMasakazu HashimotoJong HeoTadashi HiramatsuStarsManaka IwamiMiyu IrinoYôko HikasaEscaping war, an immortal girl blessed with Eternal Youth finds a lone surviving infant and decides to raise him as her son.
- DirectorHaifaa Al-MansourStarsElle FanningBel PowleyOwen RichardsLife and facts of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, who at 16 met 21 year old poet Percy Shelley, resulting in the writing of Frankenstein.
- DirectorIan BonhôtePeter EttedguiStarsAlexander McQueenJoyce McQueenJohn HitchcockThe life and career of fashion designer Lee Alexander McQueen: from his start as a tailor, to launching and overseeing his eponymous line and his untimely death.
- DirectorDaniel Jerome GillStarsIan HartSteven MackintoshTom RileyBoy meets girl in CD store. They like the same music. He's a guitarist in a band of 3 and she works in the City of London and is the breadwinner. Is love of the same music enough to keep them together years later?
- DirectorUmesh ShuklaStarsAmitabh BachchanRishi KapoorVijay Raaz102 Not Out is a 2018 comedy-drama film, with legendary actor Amitabh Bachchan playing a 102-year-old wanting to break the oldest-man-alive record. Another Bollywood legend Rishi Kapoor plays his sad and grumpy 75-year-old son.
- DirectorJonathan HackerStarsLily FletcherTom HollanderPaul Marshall Johnson Jr.Deep in the Saudi desert, young thrill-seekers at jihadi boot camp sign up to a plot to overthrow the Saudi government. They detonate three horrific car-bombs at Western compounds in downtown Riyadh and become embroiled in a nail-biting game of cat and mouse with government forces. As their plans unravel, they resort to ever more brutal tactics. Exposing the dark side of the human soul, Path of Blood reveals Al Qaeda as you've never seen it before. Using a treasure trove of Al Qaeda home-movie footage captured by the security services, this haunting documentary film shows how brainwashed idealism and the youthful pursuit of adventure can descend into madness and carnage.
- DirectorStefanie BrockhausAndreas WolffStarsHissa HilalMastoura Al-AhmadiZiad BatalThis is the story of a Saudi woman who grabs the opportunity to speak against religious extremism and stands up for a peaceful Islam. This is Hissa's story.
- DirectorDavid WilkinsonStarsPatrick StewartMiriam MargolyesBob GeldofA film made by and featuring those who voted Remain in the UK's EU Referendum vote, the 48%, to show the other 27 EU Member States that it was far from a landslide victory and just why we are fighting to stay part of the EU.
- DirectorNancy BuirskiStarsCynthia ErivoRecy TaylorRobert CorbittMrs. Recy Taylor was gang raped by six white boys in 1944 Alabama. Unbroken, she spoke up and fought for justice with help from Rosa Parks and legions of women.
- DirectorStephen Nomura SchibleStarsYellow Magic OrchestraRyuichi SakamotoA portrait of genius music composer Ryuichi Sakamoto.
- DirectorMatt TyrnauerStarsIan SchragerSteve RubellDonald RubellThe story of the notorious 1970s New York City nightclub.
- DirectorWim WendersStarsAlicia VikanderCelyn JonesJannik SchümannJames and Danielle meet on vacation and fall in love. She's going to the dark North Atlantic bottom to find life. He's going to Somalia to find a terrorist but gets a dark cell.
- DirectorJay ChandrasekharStarsJay ChandrasekharKevin HeffernanSteve LemmeWhen a border dispute arises between the U.S. and Canada, the Super Troopers are tasked with establishing a Highway Patrol station in the disputed area.
- DirectorOliver ParkerStarsRob BrydonRupert GravesThomas TurgooseA man who is suffering a mid-life crisis finds new meaning in his life as part of an all-male, middle-aged, amateur synchronised swimming team.
- DirectorVaughn SteinStarsMargot RobbieSimon PeggDexter FletcherA film noir taking place in a train terminal at night. Add two male assassins, a female assassin, a waitress, a teacher, a janitor, and a crime boss. Add revenge. Who says mystery is a lost art?
- DirectorDaniel McCabeAn unfiltered look in to the lives of 3 characters surviving amongst the most recent cycle of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, otherwise known as the M23 rebellion.
- DirectorFinlay PretsellStarsThomas DekkerDavid MillarAn immersive fllm capturing the very essence of professional cycling.
- DirectorKevin MacdonaldStarsWhitney HoustonEllen WhiteMichael HoustonAn in-depth look at the life and music of Whitney Houston.
- DirectorLéonor SerrailleStarsLaetitia DoschSouleymane Seye NdiayeGrégoire MonsaingeonIn her early thirties, broke, and in the wake of a humbling breakup, a spirited, yet rudderless young woman finds herself struggling to get by in the bustling Parisian metropolis; however, if she can make it there, she'll make it anywhere.
- DirectorMichel HazanaviciusStarsLouis GarrelStacy MartinBérénice BejoIn 1967, during the making of "La Chinoise," film director Jean-Luc Godard falls in love with 19-year-old actress Anne Wiazemsky and marries her.
- DirectorGöran Hugo OlssonStarsPeter BeardLee RadziwillJacqueline KennedyMontauk, East Hampton, New York, 2016. Peter Beard discusses his work as a photographer, artist and diarist before reminiscing about his attempt to make a documentary in the summer of 1972 with his friend Lee Radziwill (younger sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis), focusing on their childhood and the 20th- century history of East Hampton.
- DirectorCarlos SanchezJason SanchezStarsEvan Rachel WoodJulia Sarah StoneMaxim RoyA house cleaner meets a teenaged girl and convinces her to run away and live with her in secret.
- DirectorFrançois OzonStarsMarine VacthJérémie RenierJacqueline BissetChloé, a fragile young woman, falls in love with her psychoanalyst, Paul. A few months later she moves in with him, but soon discovers that her lover is concealing a part of his identity.
- DirectorAndrew NiccolStarsClive OwenAfiya BennettMorgan AllenIn a world without anonymity or crime, a detective meets a woman who threatens their security.
- DirectorOrban WallaceWhat happens when the news cameras turn off? Another News Story reveals the action behind the cameras of news teams tasked with reporting the refugee crisis and turning it into breaking news.
- DirectorKay CannonStarsLeslie MannJohn CenaIke BarinholtzThree parents try to stop their daughters from losing their virginity on prom night.
- DirectorNora TwomeyStarsSaara ChaudrySoma ChhayaNoorin GulamgausIn 2001, Afghanistan is under the control of the Taliban. When her father is captured, a determined young girl disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family.
- DirectorChristopher KellyStarsLuon SovathTep Vanny"A Cambodian Spring" is an intimate and unique portrait of three people caught up in the chaotic and often violent development that is shaping modern-day Cambodia. Shot over six years, the film charts the growing wave of land-rights protests that led to the 'Cambodian spring' and the tragic events that followed. This film is about the complexities - both political and personal, of fighting for what you believe in.
- DirectorDavid FreyneStarsElliot PageSam KeeleyTom Vaughan-LawlorA disease that turns people into zombies has been cured. Society discriminates against the once-infected zombies, as do their own families, which causes social issues to arise. This leads to militant government interference.
- DirectorHogir HiroriShinwar KamalStarsFakhir BerwariSheyma IbrahimAbdulla FakhirA portrait of a Kurdish colonel, who disarmed thousands of roadside bombs and mines armed only with his courage and a pair of wire cutters.
- DirectorSimon HunterStarsSheila HancockKevin GuthriePaul Brannigan83 year old Edie believes that it is never too late - packing an old camping bag, leaving her life behind and embarking on an adventure she never got to have - climbing the imposing Mount Suilven in Scotland.
- DirectorJosé PadilhaStarsBatsheva Dance CompanyZina ZinchenkoBen SchnetzerInspired by the true events of the 1976 hijacking of an Air France flight en route from Tel Aviv to Paris, and the most daring rescue mission ever attempted.
- DirectorTony ZierraStarsLeon VitaliRyan O'NealBrian CapronA documentary about how English actor Leon Vitali came to work as an assistant to American filmmaker Stanley Kubrick for over 30 years.
- DirectorJohn Cameron MitchellStarsElle FanningAlex SharpNicole KidmanAn alien touring the galaxy breaks away from her group and meets two young inhabitants of the most dangerous place in the universe: the London borough of Croydon.
- DirectorArnaud DesplechinStarsMathieu AmalricMarion CotillardCharlotte GainsbourgThe story follows a filmmaker (Mathieu Amalric) whose life is sent into a tailspin by the return of a former lover (Marion Cotillard as Carlotta) just as he is about to embark on the shoot of a new film.
- DirectorAndrew HaighStarsCharlie PlummerAmy SeimetzTravis FimmelA teenager gets a summer job working for a horse trainer and befriends the fading racehorse, Lean on Pete.
- DirectorPaolo VirzìStarsHelen MirrenDonald SutherlandChristian McKayA runaway couple go on an unforgettable journey in the faithful old RV they call "The Leisure Seeker".
- DirectorP. David EbersoleTodd HughesStarsJayne MansfieldKenneth AngerA.J. BenzaMANSFIELD 66/67 is about the last two years of movie goddess Jayne Mansfield's life, and the rumours swirling around her untimely death.
- DirectorHiromasa YonebayashiStarsHana SugisakiRyunosuke KamikiYûki AmamiBased on "The Little Broomstick" by Mary Stewart, a strange flower grants a girl magic powers.
- DirectorMarc MeyersStarsRoss LynchAlex WolffAnne HecheA young Jeffrey Dahmer struggles to belong in high school.
- DirectorC.I. SmithStarsJim BroadbentTerry BirdVincent O'ConnellWhat happened when we built Utopia? New Town Utopia is feature documentary about the power of art, architecture, the state of the nation - and some rather angry puppets.
- DirectorDominic CookeStarsBilly HowleSaoirse RonanAndy BurseIn 1962 England, a young couple find their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.
- DirectorMartin ZandvlietStarsJared LetoTadanobu AsanoKippei ShînaAn epic set in post-WWII Japan and centered on an American former G.I. who joins the yakuza.
- DirectorSteven S. DeKnightStarsJohn BoyegaScott EastwoodCailee SpaenyJake Pentecost, son of Stacker Pentecost, reunites with Mako Mori to lead a new generation of Jaeger pilots, including rival Lambert and 15-year-old hacker Amara, against a new Kaiju threat.
- DirectorJohn KrasinskiStarsEmily BluntJohn KrasinskiMillicent SimmondsA family struggles for survival in a world where most humans have been killed by blind but noise-sensitive creatures. They are forced to communicate in sign language to keep the creatures at bay.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsTye SheridanOlivia CookeBen MendelsohnWhen the creator of a virtual reality called the OASIS dies, he makes a posthumous challenge to all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune and control of his world.
- DirectorCoralie FargeatStarsMatilda Anna Ingrid LutzKevin JanssensVincent ColombeNever take your mistress on an annual guys' getaway, especially one devoted to hunting - a violent lesson for three wealthy married men.
- DirectorJohannes RobertsStarsChristina HendricksMartin HendersonBailee MadisonA family of four staying at a secluded mobile home park for the night are stalked and then hunted by three masked psychopaths.
- DirectorEric StylesStarsJohn HurtSofia HelinMax BrownRalph, a once-famous screenwriter, is in his seventies and terminally ill. He has two final missions: to be reconciled to his son, Michael, and, secretly, to ensure he is not a burden to his wife, Anna, as he goes "into that good night".
- DirectorJeff WadlowStarsLucy HaleTyler PoseyViolett BeaneA harmless game of Truth or Dare among friends turns deadly when someone - or something - begins to punish those who tell a lie or refuse the dare.
- DirectorBertrand MandicoStarsPauline LorillardVimala PonsDiane RouxelThe tale of five adolescent boys enamored by the arts but drawn to crime and transgression. After committing a brutal crime aided by Trevor, a deity of chaos, they're punished to board a boat with a captain hell-bent on taming them.
- DirectorRaoul PeckStarsAugust DiehlStefan KonarskeVicky KriepsThe early years of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Jenny Marx, between Paris, Brussels and London.
- DirectorLucrecia MartelStarsDaniel Giménez CachoLola DueñasMatheus NachtergaeleBased on the novel by Antonio Di Benedetto written in 1956, on Don Diego de Zama, a Spanish officer of the seventeenth century settled in Asunción, who awaits his transfer to Buenos Aires.
- DirectorAlex GarlandStarsNatalie PortmanJennifer Jason LeighTessa ThompsonA biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.
- DirectorMichael PearceStarsJessie BuckleyGeraldine JamesOliver MaltmanA troubled woman living in an isolated community finds herself pulled between the control of her oppressive family and the allure of a secretive outsider suspected of a series of brutal murders.
- DirectorXuan LiangChun ZhangStarsGuanlin JiShangqing SuTimmy XuA 16-year-old girl travels to the human world in the form of a dolphin and forms a connection with a human boy.
- DirectorSergey LoznitsaStarsValeriu AndriutaLiya AkhedzhakovaRoza KhayrullinaA woman lives in a small village in Russia. One day she receives the parcel she sent to her husband, serving a sentence in prison. Confused and angered, she sets out to find why her package was returned to sender.
- DirectorClaire DenisStarsJuliette BinocheXavier BeauvoisPhilippe KaterineIsabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love at last.
- DirectorTodd HaynesStarsOakes FegleyJulianne MooreMichelle WilliamsTells the tale of two children separated by fifty years. In 1927, Rose searches for the actress whose life she chronicles in her scrapbook; in 1977, Ben runs away from home to find his father.
- DirectorAsim AbbasiStarsAamina SheikhSanam SaeedAdnan MalikA woman who takes care of her aging parents and their land is joined by her sister when their parents' health worsens.
- DirectorSimon RumleyStarsJustin SalingerAmy LoughtonHaydn May1968: An inexperienced sailor enters a round the world race which he fears he won't be able to complete yet alone win. In order to save his dignity, he decides to cheat to come last but things don't go according to plan.
- DirectorXavier LegrandStarsLéa DruckerDenis MénochetThomas GioriaA broken marriage leads to a bitter custody battle with an embattled son at the centre.
- DirectorCoz GreenopStarsApril PearsonJon CamplingToby OsmondAn abandoned paramour tracks her lover down to a distant lighthouse. When she finds her beyond hope she must find a way to save a child from the malignant spirit of her deceased father and the madness of her mother.
- DirectorEli RothStarsBruce WillisVincent D'OnofrioElisabeth ShueDr. Paul Kersey is an experienced trauma surgeon, a man who has spent his life saving lives. After an attack on his family, Paul embarks on his own mission for justice.
- DirectorSicheng ChenStarsHaoran LiuBaoqiang WangYang XiaoTang and Qin team up to solve a murder in New York's Chinatown.
- DirectorKate McLarnonSky NealEven When I Fall tells the incredible story of Nepal's first circus, set up by survivors of child trafficking.
- DirectorMichael SucsyStarsAngourie RiceJustice SmithDebby RyanA shy teenager falls for a spirit who wakes up in the body of a different person every morning.
- DirectorAdrian ShergoldStarsMaxine PeakeMacy ShackletonAshton SteeleA comedian uses her troubled past as material for her stand-up routine, trying to rise up through the comedy circuit by playing Northern England's working men's clubs.
- DirectorJohn Francis DaleyJonathan GoldsteinStarsJason BatemanRachel McAdamsKyle ChandlerA group of friends who meet regularly for game nights find themselves entangled in a real-life mystery when the shady brother of one of them is seemingly kidnapped by dangerous gangsters.
- DirectorJeremy DysonAndy NymanStarsSamuel BottomleyDeborah WastellAmy DoyleAfter receiving a file with details of three unexplained cases of apparitions, skeptical professor Phillip Goodman embarks on a terrifying trip.
- DirectorNash EdgertonStarsJoel EdgertonCharlize TheronDavid OyelowoGRINGO, a dark comedy mixed with white-knuckle action and dramatic intrigue, explores the battle of survival for businessman Harold Soyinka (David Oyelowo) when he finds himself crossing the line from law-abiding citizen to wanted criminal.
- DirectorMike NewellStarsJessica Brown FindlayTom CourtenayMichiel HuismanIn the aftermath of World War II, a writer forms an unexpected bond with the residents of Guernsey Island when she decides to write a book about their experiences during the war. Then she learns the secret they are afraid to reveal.
- DirectorAnders WalterStarsMadison WolfeZoe SaldanaImogen PootsBarbara Thorson struggles through life by escaping into a fantasy life of magic and monsters.
- DirectorGreg BerlantiStarsNick RobinsonJennifer GarnerJosh DuhamelSimon Spier keeps a huge secret from his family, his friends and all of his classmates: he's gay. When that secret is threatened, Simon must face everyone and come to terms with his identity.
- DirectorMouly SuryaStarsMarsha TimothyEgy FedlyTumpal TampubolonMarlina lives quietly in Sumba until one day a man named Markus and his gang try to rob her house and she kills him. Eventually, she is haunted by Markus, and her life turns in 180 degrees.
- DirectorScott SpeerStarsBella ThornePatrick SchwarzeneggerRob RiggleA 17-year-old girl suffers from a condition that prevents her from being out in the sunlight.
- DirectorDuncan JonesStarsAlexander SkarsgårdPaul RuddJustin TherouxA mute bartender goes up against his city's gangsters in an effort to find out what happened to his missing partner.
- DirectorKathleen HepburnStarsShirley HendersonThéodore PellerinMary GallowayA mother struggles to take control of her life in the face of advanced Parkinson's disease, while her son battles his sexual and emotional identity amongst the violence of Alberta's oil field work camps.
- DirectorRobin CampilloStarsNahuel Pérez BiscayartArnaud ValoisAdèle HaenelMembers of the advocacy group ACT UP Paris demand action by the government and pharmaceutical companies to combat the AIDS epidemic in the early 1990s.
- DirectorCory FinleyStarsOlivia CookeAnya Taylor-JoyAnton YelchinTwo upper-class teenage girls in suburban Connecticut rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of growing apart. Together, they hatch a plan to solve both of their problems-no matter what the cost.
- DirectorLennart RuffStarsSam WorthingtonTaylor SchillingTom WilkinsonA military family takes part in a ground-breaking experiment of genetic evolution and space exploration.
- DirectorRoar UthaugStarsAlicia VikanderDominic WestWalton GogginsLara Croft, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she discovers the island where her father, Lord Richard Croft disappeared.
- DirectorJason ReitmanStarsCharlize TheronMackenzie DavisRon LivingstonA struggling mother of three forms an unexpected bond with the night nanny hired to help with her newborn baby.
- DirectorDan CadanStarsStephen GrahamJason FlemyngJulian SandsA group of 1980s wrestlers are forced to don the lycra once last time when their beloved local pub is threatened with closure.
- DirectorValeska GrisebachStarsMeinhard NeumannReinhardt WetrekSyuleyman Alilov LetifovGerman construction workers building a dam near a Bulgarian village interact with the locals, and soon the troubles arise both with the locals and among themselves.
- DirectorJohn TrengoveStarsNakhaneBongile MantsaiNiza JayXolani, a lonely factory worker, travels to the rural mountains with the men of his community to initiate a group of teenage boys into manhood.
- DirectorAva DuVernayStarsStorm ReidOprah WinfreyReese WitherspoonAfter the disappearance of her scientist father, three peculiar beings send Meg, her brother, and her friend to space in order to find him.
- DirectorRyan CooglerStarsChadwick BosemanMichael B. JordanLupita Nyong'oT'Challa, heir to the hidden but advanced kingdom of Wakanda, must step forward to lead his people into a new future and must confront a challenger from his country's past.
- DirectorKore-eda HirokazuStarsMasaharu FukuyamaKoji YakushoSuzu HiroseA courtroom drama centered around the murder of a factory president.
- DirectorSteven SoderberghStarsClaire FoyJoshua LeonardJay PharoahA young woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution, where she is confronted by her greatest fear - but is it real or a product of her delusion?
- DirectorJames CrumpStarsJoan Juliet BuckPaul CaranicasMichael ChowSex Fashion and Disco is a documentary film concerning Antonio Lopez (1943-1987), the most influential fashion illustrator of 1970s Paris and New York, and his colorful and sometimes outrageous milieu.
- DirectorSandhya SuriStarsSabuThe film explores life in India - both British and Indian - in the 50 years leading up to Independence in 1947.
- DirectorJulius OnahStarsGugu Mbatha-RawDavid OyelowoDaniel BrühlOrbiting a planet on the brink of war, scientists test a device to solve an energy crisis, and end up face-to-face with a dark alternate reality.
- DirectorClint EastwoodStarsAlek SkarlatosAnthony SadlerSpencer StoneThree courageous young Americans prevent a terrorist attack on a train bound for Paris.
- DirectorJames FoleyStarsDakota JohnsonJamie DornanEric JohnsonAnastasia and Christian get married, but Jack Hyde continues to threaten their relationship.
- DirectorMitra TabrizianStarsShahab HosseiniBehrouz BehnejadNasser MemarziaHaunted by his past and with an uncertain future, Gholam gets involved in the conflict of a total stranger and sees it through to the very end.
- DirectorJian LiuStarsChanglong ZhuKai CaoJian LiuA city in southern China and a bag containing a million yuan draw several people from diverse backgrounds with different personal motives into a bloody conflict.
- DirectorWilliam E. BadgleyStarsTessa PollittSid ViciousBilly IdolThe tale of the formation, journey and end of the seminal Punk/Reggae band The Slits.