
Mark Asch
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bfi.org.uk | Sophie Monks Kaufman |Nicolas Rapold |Henry Miller |Mark Asch
Most cinephiles are prone to the fantasy that if you make – or watch – the right film, life-changing consequences will arise. In Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value, his follow-up to the widely beloved The Worst Person in the World (2022), the director explores the relationship between a disappointing dad and his two daughters.
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bfi.org.uk | Nicolas Rapold Festivals |Nicolas Rapold |Henry Miller |Mark Asch
The American director goes behind the scenes of Breathless’ historic production for a film that embraces Jean-Luc Godard’s cinephile passion and formal imagination. 23 May 2025Reviewed from the 2025 Cannes Film Festival“The best way to criticise a film is to make one,” runs the famous Godard axiom, and perhaps the same goes for loving one, where the criticism takes the form of a thoroughgoing attention to all the finer points.
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bfi.org.uk | Christina Newland |Henry Miller |Mark Asch |Jonathan Romney
Reviewed from the 2025 Cannes Film FestivalLong live Spike Lee and long live Denzel Washington. The filmmaker and the towering star of some of his greatest films – not least Malcolm X – are together again for Lee’s latest joint, Highest 2 Lowest, a corporate drama and crime thriller combined into one that’s all about power, money, and self-interest in the world of modern Black capitalism and the music biz.
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bfi.org.uk | Henry Miller |Mark Asch |Jonathan Romney |Giovanni Marchini Camia |Henry Miller
In what is probably his final outing as Ethan Hunt, Tom Cruise squares up against AI in a series of spectacular set-pieces in the sky and sea. 23 May 2025Ethan Hunt’s adversary in the eighth and final (?) Mission: Impossible is AI, but his nemesis, all along, has been gravity. The first he will gladly destroy, taking the internet with it, but the other he has kept coming back to, most memorably in the ‘black vault’ at Langley in the first film and the Burj Khalifa sequence in the fourth.
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bfi.org.uk | Giovanni Marchini Camia |Mark Asch |Jonathan Romney |John Bleasdale
Reviewed from the 2025 Cannes Film FestivalHaving already proved himself a virtuoso of scene-setting openers with Aquarius (2016) and Bacurau (2019), Kleber Mendonça Filho pulls off a hattrick with The Secret Agent. A vivid yellow VW Beetle drives into a rural petrol station while titles inform us that we’re in Brazil in 1977, “a time of great mischief”. Not far from the pumps, a dead body lies under a sheet of cardboard and a swarm of flies.
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