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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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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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Finest hours: Martha Vickers in The Big Sleep
On what would have been her 100th birthday, we remember model-turned-actress Martha Vickers and her scene-stealing performance – playing younger sister to Lauren Bacall – as the flirtatious Carmen Sternwood.
By Chloe Walker
IndieLisboa 2025: highlights from the festival that sells a quarter of its tickets to kids
By Kieron Corless
Splatoon: 10 years of Nintendo’s joyous, messy squid game
By Stuart Burnside
BFI Player’s June 2025 line-up
BFI Player’s June 2025 line-upMarcel Ophuls obituary: veteran documentary-maker behind the monumental The Sorrow and the Pity
By Nick James
July 2025 programme for BFI Southbank and BFI IMAX: Moviedrome, Dorothy Dandridge and films censored in their own country
July 2025 programme for BFI Southbank and BFI IMAX: Moviedrome, Dorothy Dandridge and films censored in their own countryPillion: a feel-good British BDSM drama
By John Bleasdale
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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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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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