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Find out moreMission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning at BFI IMAX
Tom Cruise and team return for another teeth-clenching, breathtaking, white-knuckle ride as Ethan Hunt faces down his toughest foe.
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BFI Replay
A new free-to-access digital archive exclusively available in UK public lending libraries. Discover thousands of digitised videos and television programmes from the 1960s to the 2010s, offering a glimpse into Britain’s past, its people and places.
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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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Sirât: Oliver Laxe’s thrilling desert parable lets the music take control
A father in search of his lost daughter enters a world of illegal Moroccan desert raves in the Spanish director’s teeth-rattling sensorial experiment.
By Mark Asch
10 great British pop films
By Stephen Dalton
Pac-Man at 45: the video game character who consumed the culture
By Stuart Burnside
20 years on from the Cannes walkouts, a new look at The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael
By Anton Bitel
Mission: Impossible – a popcorn movie to take seriously
By José Arroyo
Wong Kar Wai on In the Mood for Love at 25 – a new interview: “Can an algorithm understand the weight of a glance between two people?”
By Sam Wigley
Eddington: Ari Aster’s Covid movie punches in all directions and misses
By John Bleasdale
Events
Actor, producer and Hollywood legend Tom Cruise visits the BFI Southbank to talk to Edith Bowman about his career.
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The BFI National Archive has one of the most important film and TV collections in the world. Choose from a selection of 11,000 titles that cover 120 years of British life, and the history and art of film.
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