Boycotting Trends.: December 2025

Saturday, 13 December 2025

Interview with Stephen Bourne at Film International

My interview with the historian and critic Stephen Bourne is up at Film International. You can read it here.

Sight and Sound Review of Sinners (dir. Coogler, 2025)

My Sight and Sound review of Sinners is now online. You can read it here.

Sight and Sound: Best Films of 2025 (Winter 2025-2026 issue)

The new issue of Sight and Sound is now available, including the best films of 2025 poll results. I wrote about Ryan Coogler's Sinners for the issue. Full details here and link to the poll here.

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Favourites: By Year

Films 2018

1. Fugue (Smoczynska)

2. Wildlife (Dano)

3. Lean on Pete (Haigh)

4. Peterloo (Leigh)

5. Roma (Cuaron)

6. The Chambermaid (Aviles)

7. Tully (Reitman)

8. Djon Africa (Guerra/Reis)

9. Apostasy (Kokotajlo)

10. Nancy (Choe)

11. Journey to a Mother's Room (Rico)

12. Joy (Motezai)

13. Support the Girls (Bujalski)

14. Faces Places (Varda/JR)

15. Sorry Angel (Honoré)

16. Sauvage (Vidal-Naquet)

17. Becoming Astrid (Christensen)

18. Monument (Szelc)

19. Candelaria (Hendrix)

20. Las Herederas (Martinessi)

Theatre 2018

1. The Nether (Otchłań) (Jaracz)

2. The Meeting (Chichester Festival Theatre)

3. Utility (Orange Tree)

4. Caroline, or Change (Hampstead)

5. Fun Home (Young Vic)

6. Ich Czworo (Four of Us) (Jaracz)

7. Richard II (Almeida)

8. Operetka (Jaracz)

9. Nine Night (NT)

10. Hadestown (NT)

Music 2018

1. Sinners Got Soul Too (Peyton)

2. Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino (Arctic Monkeys)

3. Negative Capability (Marianne Faithfull)

4. Whistle Down the Wind (Joan Baez)

5. Float Like A Butterfly (Barb Jungr/John McDaniel)

6. Lost Souls (Loreena McKennitt)

7. My Indigo (My Indigo)

8. Dirty Computer (Janelle Monae)

9. American Utopia (David Byrne)

10. High As Hope (Florence and the Machine)

Films 2017

1. A Ciambra (Carpignano)

2.-3. Frantz/L'amant double (Ozon)

4. Lost in Paris (Gordon/Abel)

5. God's Own Country (Francis Lee)

6. A Ghost Story (David Lowery)

7. Maudie (Walsh)

8. mother! (Aronofsky)

9. Manifesto (Rosefelft)

10. Summer 1993 (Simon)

11. Chavela (Gund/Kyi)

12. My Happy Family (Ekvtimishvili/Gross)

13. A Quiet Passion (Davies)

14. Insyriated (Van Leeuw)

15. Little Men (Ira Sachs)

Theatre 2017

1. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Pinter Theatre)

2. Mother Courage and her Children (Teatr Narodowy, Warsaw)

3. The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Merton Art Space)

4. Romantics Anonymous (Sam Wanamaker)

5. JOAN (Ovalhouse)

6. An Octoroon (Orange Tree)

7. Twelfth Night (NT; Globe)

8. Czarownice z Salem (Teatr Jarazca, Lodz)

9. Winter Solstice (Orange Tree)

10. The Glass Menagerie (Duke of York's)

Films 2016

1. Paterson (Jarmusch)

2. The Last Family (Matuszynski)

3. Things to Come (Hansen-Love)

4. Lemonade (Beyonce, et al)

5. Theo and Hugo (Duscatel/Matineau)

6. Summertime (Corsini)

7. Hissein Habre: A Chadian Tragedy (Haroun)

8. Aquarius (Filh0)

9. The BFG (Spielberg)

10. Staying Vertical (Guiraudie)

Theatre 2016

1. Les Blancs (NT)

2. The Maids (Trafalgar Studios)

3. A Midsummer Night's Dream (Globe)

4. Richard III (Almeida)

5. The Rolling Stone (Orange Tree)

6.The Flick (NT)

7. King Lear (Old Vic)

8. Bitches (Finborough)

9. Dogville (Nowy Teatr, Lodz)

10. After October (Finborough)

Music 2016

1. Lemonade (Beyonce)

2. Stranger to Stranger (Paul Simon)

3. Upcetera (Jim Moray)

4. The Colour in Anything (James Blake)

5. Lodestar (Shirley Collins)

6. Blond (Frank Ocean)

7. A Seat at the Table (Solange)

8. Boys for Pele, 20th Anniversary Reissue (Tori Amos)

9. Blackstar (David Bowie)

10. Come Together: Songs of The Beatles (Barb Jungr/John McDaniel)

Films 2015

1. Sunset Song (Davies)
2. 11 Minutes (Skolimowski)
3. Mountains May Depart (Zhangke)
4. James White (Josh Mond)
5. Mediterranea (Carpignano)
6. Inherent Vice (Anderson)
7. A Bigger Splash (Guadagnino)
8. Moje Corki Krowy (These Daughters of Mine) (Debska)
9.Regarding Susan Sontag (Kates)
10. Corki Dancingu/ The Lure (Smoczynska)
11. They Will Have To Kill Us First: Malian Music in Exile (Schwartz)
12. An (Kawase)
13. Love Is Strange (Sachs)
14. Body/Cialo (Szumowska)
15. The Pearl Button (Guzman)

Music 2015

1. The Light Princess (OCR)

2. The Trackless Woods (Iris DeMent)

3. Skeleton Crew (Madisen Ward & the Mama Bear)

4. Music Complete (New Order)

5. Carrie & Lowell (Sufjan Stevens)

6. The Rose of Roscrae (Tom Russell)

7. Joy of Living: A Tribute to Ewan MacColl (Various)

8. The Other Side of Desire (Rickie Lee Jones)

9. Honeymoon (Lana del Rey)

10. Leonard Cohen: Zaspiewany (Various)

Bonus: Made in Dagenham (OCR)

Films 2014

1. The Duke of Burgundy (Strickland)
2. Exhibition (Hogg)
3. Radiator (Browne)
4. Winter Sleep (Ceylan)
5. The Immigrant (Gray)
6. Mr. Turner (Leigh)
7. Mommy (Dolan)
8. Night Bus (Baker)
9. Girlhood (Sciamma)
10. Fotograf (Krzystek)

Music 2014

1. Morning Phase (Beck)
2. Give My Love To London (Marianne Faithfull)
3. Unrepentant Geraldines (Tori Amos)
4.From Scotland With Love (King Creosote)
5. This Is All Yours (alt-J)
6. So Long, See You Tomorrow (Bombay Bicycle Club)
7. World Peace is None of Your Business (Morrissey)
8. O Love (Ernest Troost)
9. Salad Days (Mac DeMarco)
10. The Voyager (Jenny Lewis)

Theatre 2014

1.Mr. Burns (Almeida)
2. Festival (Orange Tree)
3. Rachel (Finborough)
4. Made in Dagenham (Adelphi)
5. My Night With Reg (Donmar)
6. East is East (Trafalgar Studios)
7. A View from The Bridge (Young Vic)
8. The Merchant of Venice (Almeida)
9. The Boss of it All (Soho)
10. Our Town (Almeida)