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From the team behind Top Gun: Maverick comes the high octane, action-packed feature film F1 The Movie, starring Brad Pitt and directed by Joseph Kosinski.
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The Greatest Films of All Time issue
Once a decade the magazine asks critics to select the best films ever made. Explore the results in a special edition.
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10 great films about mothers and daughters
Emma Mackey and Fiona Shaw plays a mother and daughter at odds under the Spanish sun in the new film of Deborah Levy’s novel Hot Milk. To greet its cinema release, we recommend 10 more films exploring this intense and complicated bond.
By Emily Maskell
Object of the week: promotional still for the lost silent romcom Swim Girl, Swim
By Eva Norton
Finest hours: Debbie Harry as the kinky therapist in Videodrome
By Stephen Dalton
Broken Sword creator Charles Cecil on redefining and refining the graphic adventure game
By Blake Simons
Jurassic World Rebirth: satisfying thrills, thin storytelling
By Leigh Singer
M3GAN 2.0: the child killbot returns for a lively, satisfying sequel
By Kim Newman
August 2025 programme announced for BFI Southbank and BFI IMAX
August 2025 programme announced for BFI Southbank and BFI IMAXEvents
The director of Lollipop, along with cast members Posy Sterling, Idil Ahmed and TerriAnn Cousins, visit BFI Southbank to talk about Hudson's debut, a raw and urgent drama about one desperate mother’s relentless fight for justice against a broken system.
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