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.


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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.

poor, i thought it would be too good to be true, being able to access issues of sight and sound all the way back to the 1930s and not expect it to crash all the time. should have read the reviews and steered clear of this poor app. its one way of keeping the print version in circulation. bfi stick to film criticism and funding, at least you know what your doing.

I have a long run of the actual magazine but I though I'd give this a try. Crashed three times in five minutes. The Search is completely useless. I tried searchng the Archive for 'Pale Rider' and was told it was too generic. Enclosed it in quotes - made no difference. Only when I found out from IMDB when it was released was I able to locate which issue (of MFB) it was in: I was able to Search and get a result. Basically you can search for something if you already know where it is. (The website version is no better.) The scan quality of the MFB is pretty bad, though more recent editions of S&S are OK.

What's new

New updates and general bug fixes