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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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The Mastermind: Kelly Reichardt pulls off a perfect slow heist movie
Josh O’Connor stars as a wannabe criminal who fumbles a small-time art robbery in Reichardt’s ingenious evocation of 1970s suburban Massachusetts.
By Nicolas Rapold
10 great Irish horror films
By Anton Bitel
Smashing the goldfish bowl: how the Grierson sisters helped pioneer British documentary
By Ros Cranston
Mountains: Monica Sorelle’s quiet epic of Caribbean resilience
By Ivie Uzebu
The History of Sound: Desire is more studied than felt in this timid romantic drama
By Jonathan Romney
The cat, the snail and the robot: the new wave of indie animation
By Andrew Osmond
Finest hours: Martha Vickers in The Big Sleep
By Chloe Walker
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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