Sight & Sound

The British Film Institute

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About this app

Sight & Sound is the international film magazine that offers a unique perspective on the very best of film culture – past and present. Published for more than 80 years by the British Film Institute, Sight & Sound is the original magazine for the discerning film-fan. We carry news, interviews and analysis from the best writers on film as well as a comprehensive reviews section with a full synopsis, credits and production details for every film reviewed.

Subscription Options:

1-month subscription - £3.99
6-month subscription - £19.99
12-month subscription - £34.99

All subscriptions come with access to the complete archive of Sight & Sound since first published in 1932 - an unrivalled archive of film commentary and criticism.

Existing Print-Subscriber?

Print-subscribers can read the iPad edition at no extra cost. Simply install the free App, open and enter your registered email address and password.


For more information visit bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/subscribe



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Ratings and reviews

I thought I could use this to clear out my 40+ years of mags but the search engine is so generic as to be worthless - search for "In the Earth" & it just returns every result for "Earth". Needs sub-filters, like Review, News, etc/ or the ability to insert quotation marks. And the search only goes back to 2018 or so. My S&S sub is worthless and the developers should be ashamed. This is so appalling that I am serious;y thinking of cancelling my DD as the BFI obviously don't care.

Utterly useless. The app reports "invalid email address" and "invalid password" when I try to log in using the credentials that work in my browser. Uninstalling and reinstalling does not help. I had the same issue about two years ago and it took ages to fix it. Has the app been abandoned?

App starts up, and sticks forever in the authenticating membership process. If it ever gets past that process, it crashes as soon as I try to load an issue. This is a new tablet, and there shouldn't be problems like this. Having a digital subscription is severely limited if I'm only able to read the magazine in my web browser, and not in the dedicated app, which, by extension, is a service I've paid you money for. Judging by the rest of reviews on here, this is a problem that's persisted for a good long while, and you don't seem any closer to fixing it. I love your magazine, but this needs to be rectified post haste, or you need to just pull this app from the app store, so you can stop advertising that your magazine can be read on Android. As of now, as far as I'm concerned, it can't.

What's new

General Bug Fixes