Sight and Sound

Sight and Sound is a monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute, first issued in Spring 1932 as a quarterly review of educational film aids under the British Institute of Adult Education. The BFI took over management in 1934, and in 1991 the magazine merged with the Monthly Film Bulletin and began to appear monthly, now in ten issues a year. Editors have included Gavin Lambert, Penelope Houston, Nick James and, currently, Mike Williams. It reviews every film released in a month, including limited art house releases. The magazine is best known for its decennial poll of the greatest films of all time, run since 1952, which critic Roger Ebert called the most respected of such polls. The 2022 critics poll was topped by Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, the first film directed by a woman to lead the list.