Were any potential all-time great pictures made this year? Perhaps Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value has a shot. It does remarkably well in capturing one family’s relationship in somewhat universal ...

It’s not all fond recollection at year’s end, however, and a handful of screenings mark the passing of some of cinema’s major figures. David Lynch, Robert Redford, Terence Stamp, and Tom Stoppard are ...

Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite, a tense political thriller hinging on the threat of nuclear annihilation, is the most compelling film of her career. She discusses her commitment to authenticity ...

From Pillion to My Father’s Shadow and Lollipop, it’s been a big year for BFI NETWORK alumni furthering their careers with award-winning debut features.

Josh O’Connor plays a priest suspected of murder in Rian Johnson’s latest Knives Out mystery. We spoke to the actor and director about the big themes and ensemble dynamics underlying this darker entry ...

In celebrating trains on screen for the 200th anniversary of Britain’s passenger railways, who could forget a certain tank engine called Thomas, who debuted on television in 1984 and would later ...

Epic Games’s Fortnite platform played host to The Simpsons and Quentin Tarantino, Microsoft upped their prices and a French RPG dominated at the game awards in another packed year for video games.

Ari Aster's Eddington, in which Joaquin Phoenix's conspiracist sheriff and Pedro Pascal's tech-friendly centrist lock horns in an election, lays bare the deep divisions in the American psyche. The ...

As a new collection curated by Sofas & Stuff arrives on BFI Player, we spoke to the Sofas & Stuff team about their favourite festive films and viewing traditions.

No filmmaker has been as preoccupied as Cronenberg by flesh and the many ways it can be transformed. In his latest film, the 82-year-old looks at the last transformation flesh undergoes, through the ...

Rógan Graham, a critic and programmer with a focus on Black and female filmmakers, recounts the highlights from her 'Black Debutantes' season at BFI Southbank in London.

Inspired by his experience of being interrogated in prison in Iran, Jafar Panahi's Palme d'Or-winning It Was Just an Accident feels like the dissident filmmaker's most direct attack on the regime to ...