Plus: A wrenching documentary on a Palestinian photojournalist, and the significance of the year 1999 for the film April May 99. Here are this week's top reads from @TheReel

Tom Cruise has been leading the Mission: Impossible movies since 1996. The eight film in the blockbuster franchise, The Final Reckoning, is rumoured to be the last one. Out in Indian cinemas six days ahead of
the US release, the film is a star-studded, action-heavy extravaganza.

Review: Tom Cruise works very hard to enliven a listless ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’

Part two of ‘Dead Reckoning’ is out in Indian cinemas six days before the US release.

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But are we ready for a world without Tom Cruise’s overachieving Ethan Hunt?

Are we ready for our final reckoning with Tom Cruise’s ‘Mission: Impossible’ movies?

Farewell Ethan Hunt, or never say never?

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Iranian filmmaker Sepideh Farsi’s powerful documentary about
Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassoouna began as a tribute to
unimaginable resilience and ended up becoming a chronicle of a death
foretold.

Film on slain Palestinian photojournalist is a wrenching chronicle of unimaginable courage

Sepideh Farsi’s ‘Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk’ is a documentary about Fatima Hassouna, who died in an Israeli air strike in April.

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The Film Heritage Foundation has helped restored the Sri Lankan
classic Gehenu Lamai.

Sensuous, delicate, poetic: The 1978 classic from Sri Lanka that is set to make a splash at Cannes

Sumitra Peries’s Sinhala-language ‘Gehenu Lamai’ has been restored with the help of the Film Heritage Foundation.

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The release of Rohan Mapuskar’s April May 99 was pushed from April 16
to April 23. Here is why the film could not have been set in any year
other than 1999.

‘A period of transformation’: Why Marathi film ‘April May 99’ couldn’t have been set in another year

Rohan Mapuskar talks to ‘Scroll’ about his feature debut, which will be out in cinemas on May 23.

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Italian filmmakers are masters of moody neo-noir thrillers about cops
and gangsters. Last Night of Amore stars the inimitable Pierfrancesco
Favino.

Start the week with a film: In ‘Last Night of Amore’, the wages of temptation

Pierfrancesco Favino leads Andrea Di Stefano’s Italian thriller.

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Teenaa Kaur Pasricha’s ‘What If I Tell You’ explores her recovery and
her efforts to tackle the stigma associated with breast cancer.

A documentary filmmaker’s new subject: her experience with breast cancer

Teenaa Kaur Pasricha’s ‘What If I Tell You’ explores her recovery and her efforts to tackle the stigma associated with the disease.

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