SIGHT AND SOUND, VOLUME 28, ISSUE 5, MAY 2018

- The Body Politic

A love story set amid the life-and-death struggles of Aids activists fighting pharmaceutical giants in France in the early 1990s, Robin Campillo's engrossing 120 BPM (Beats Per Minute) is a moving tribute to a generation of gay campaigners. By Roger Clarke.

- How to dramatise a plague: a brief history of Aids on screen

The realities of Aids were ignored by mainstream culture in the early years of the virus, but little by little, film and TV have learned to be honest about life and death in the HIV age. By Simon McCallum.

- Atlantic Drift

Should we be concerned by the fact that, at a moment of great national soul-searching, many of the UK's most celebrated independent filmmakers - from Andrea Arnold to Lynne Ramsay, Steve McQueen and the McDonagh brothers - are currently working in the United States? By Will Massa.

- Ride Lonesome

A clear-eyed, unsentimental portrait of a young boy's relationship with an ailing race horse and their epic trip across a broken America to find a stable home, Andrew Haigh's Lean on Pete offers a modern spin on America's founding myth. By Michael Leader.

- Dangerous Liaison

Michael Pearce's tense Jersey-set debut feature, Beast, steers clear of psychosexual thriller clich? to present a complex character study of a young woman who falls for an enigmatic stranger while a serial killer is terrorising the island. By Nikki Baughan.

- Another Country: The Story of Woodfall

The company behind key films such as A Taste of Honey and Kes may not have received the recognition of some British production houses but its taboo-busting portraits of working-class life changed the face of UK cinema and offered a platform for a new generation of acting talent. By Neil Young.

- The Far Country

Valeska Grisebach's Western may focus on German workers in Eastern Europe, but its portrait of male loners caught in a battle of wits in foreign territory knowingly conjures up the worlds of John Ford and Anthony Mann. By Jonathan Romney.

- The S&S Interview: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Interview by Eric Hynes.