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Find out morePreview: Mission: 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. See preview screenings at BFI IMAX.
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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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20 years on from the Cannes walkouts, a new look at The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael
As the controversial debut film by British auteur Thomas Clay comes to BFI Player, we look back on the outrage it caused in 2005, the method behind the film‘s upsetting impact, and its parallels with A Clockwork Orange.
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
Mirrors No. 3: Suspense melts away into golden summer days in Christian Petzold’s low-key psychodrama
By Savina Petkova
“I was thinking of the price you pay for being obedient”: India Donaldson on her debut film Good One
By Katherine McLaughlin
Idol of Paris: the lusty 1948 costume drama with a sensational whip duel
By Josephine Botting
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Actor, producer and Hollywood legend Tom Cruise visits the BFI Southbank to talk to Edith Bowman about his career.
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