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Hello and welcome to the Film Review on BBC News.

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To take us through this week's cinema releases is Mark Kermode.

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A very mixed bag, we have Logan, a superhero movie that is not really a

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superhero movie. Viceroy's House, a handsome period drama from Gurinder

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Chadha. And Certain Women, the latest low-key offering from Kelly

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Reichardt. So Wolverine, back with us. In a way, that missiles it, so

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this is basically a superhero movie that isn't about superheroes, it is

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about ageing and arthritis and growing old. Wow, I am already

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surprised! It is an X-Men movie for people who prefer westerns to comic

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book adaptations. Dead in a not too distant future in which the Hugh

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Jackman character, will bring, is making a living as a limo driver. He

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is looking wretched, bloodshot eyes, and he is looking at their Patrick

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Stewart's Charles Xavier, who has a degenerative brain disease in the

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most dangerous brain in the world. They are living off the grid, trying

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to keep themselves to themselves, or at least that is what they are

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trying to do. Hey, Carl, it looks

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like Mr Munson hired some muscle. Friend with a big mouth.

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I hear that a lot. I'm going to count to three, and

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you're going to start walking away. One.

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I have a lawyer now. You know the drill,

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get the hell out of here. Now, the interesting thing about the

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film is, often with the superhero comic book franchise is, you know

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exactly where you are. This is such a different beast, the plot involves

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a young girl who Logan Byndom is of having to take care of, he is forced

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to do so by circumstances. -- finds himself. The real themes of violence

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and redemption, there is a big Western theme, it refers again and

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again to Shane, Clint Eastwood's And forgiven. There is a line that

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recurs, there is no living with the killing. Some of the violence does

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involve a young child, it is bloody and brutal and properly shocking.

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Like Deadpool, this is a 15 certificate, it is not for kids. But

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unlike Deadpool, it is not played for laughs, it is a film about what

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happens when you get old, when you are trying to make sense of your

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life, when you are trying to find some kind of redemption in a world

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which is fundamentally broken. As I said, when you talk about those

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things, the Western theme keeps coming back. There is violence,

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quite surprisingly and is. And that is the bit that puts me off. But it

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has context and meaning, and it has pain, it doesn't just feel exciting,

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it feels like there is genuine pain. When you think that we have seen so

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many of these movies in which entire cities are merrily wiped out and you

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don't feel anything at all, in this you do. No-one was more surprised

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than me, it is directed by James Mangold, obviously, a really fine

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piece of work that stands on its own, and you don't have to have seen

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all loved the other films, you should give it a. OK. The next one I

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want to like, because I really like company macro's work. And I do like

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it, it is a handsome period drama which blends history and personal

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drama. You have Hugh Bonneville and Gillian Anderson as Lord and Lady

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Mountbatten. The story is told through the prism of the people who

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are working in the household, so whilst upstairs you have dignitaries

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and politicians arguing about the fate of nations, downstairs you have

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all these different characters whose fates seem to reflect those of the

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larger end Byron. There is a Romeo and Juliet romance at the heart,

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which was a false move, it never really gelled for me. It looks like

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Gurinder Chadha wanted to make a popular, mainstream drama, that

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would work for a multiplex audience, that would be entertaining, and I

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think she has done that. I know that some people have complained that the

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film plays to the gallery, it is so simple, broad strokes characters,

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but I think that she has understood what the audience needs, and she has

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managed to delay complicated story in a way which is accessible.

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Obviously, it is a particular take on that story, but I was

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surprisingly charmed, because it is a movie that has that right cheeky

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wit, which are a lot of the stuff does, even among these complex

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historical events which are often so brutal. Certain Women, I don't know

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much about it, quite a cast. It is great, Kelly Reichardt, this is a

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triptych of tales by Maile Meloy, and they are put together in one

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film, and the stories intertwine, but only slightly. In one of them,

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Laura Dern is a lawyer who has a client who has an old Casey keeps

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coming back to, cannot move on from it. Michelle Williams is attempting

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to build a dream house while her life and marriage is falling apart.

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In the third, Kristen Stewart and Lily Gladstone are a teacher and a

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rancher who strike up an unlikely friendship, here is a clip.

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I took this job before I finished law school. I wanted any job,

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family, loans coming through. I guess I was thinking about Belgrave,

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which is a lot closer. So stupid. Then I got a real job. And they are

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letting me do this because they think it is funny. It takes me four

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hours to get here, it is going to take the four hours to get back. I

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have to work in the morning. You can tell from that, the tone of

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the film seems to be, remember that famous quote about Waiting For

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Godot? Nothing happens twice? In this film, nothing happens three

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times, but an awful lot is happening when nothing is happening. It is the

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looks which are saying more than the dialogue, and what I like about

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this, Kelly Reichardt was a film-maker who works on mood, long

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shots, you believe in these characters absolutely, and the story

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is not evident immediately, you have to give its time, let it settle. It

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is a film I want to see again. The performances are fantastically

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naturalistic, you do believe in the characters, sometimes to the point

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where you think, I am going to stay with them for a while, even though I

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am not sure whether narrative thread is going. Over the course of the

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drama, it does have a cumulative affect, but so much of it is to do

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with the tone of the atmosphere, you know, the way in which people look

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at each other, the environment in which they find themselves, the

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isolation, the way in which they do or do not relate to the other

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characters around them and the landscape. That is a very hard sell,

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you are not going to put that on a movie poster, the way you may or may

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not relate to the people and the landscape around you! But it is a

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film that you have to meet halfway, but she is a superb director, great

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performances. It sounds intriguing to me, that put it on my list, for

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sure. And can there be any doubt about film of the week? Moonlight is

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the best thing in cinemas at the moment, the best thing I have seen

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in a very long time. It won the best picture Oscar, and when was the last

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time that the best film of the actually won the Oscar for best film

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of the year? Finally it happens! It is so brilliant that it did, Barry

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Jenkins has done a brilliant job, a coming-of-age story, a triptych,

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three periods in the same character's life, played by three

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different actors. It is about a tough life, but it has got immense

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beauty, wonderful soundtrack, it looks fabulous, you really believe

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in the characters, it is tactile, sensuous and strange and

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adventurous. And everything that you want a movie to be. Everything about

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it says, this is great, no way this will win big at the awards, and it

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did, and it is such a brilliant thing, I am so pleased for Barry

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Jenkins. He is still a very young director, and you don't realise

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that, in movie terms, it was made on a berry small budget. Absolutely

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tiny, and it is one of those demonstrations that it is not about

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your resources, it is about passion, commitment and talent. This is a

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low-budget movie, when you compare what it is up against, and it is

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really wonderful. You talk about passion and it meant, that takes us

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to the DVD. I, Daniel Blake, it was overlooked by the Academy, and it is

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a great shame that it was, unbelievably powerful, directed by

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Ken Loach, great performances, and the story which basically has a

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message, the message being that bureaucracy can be used as a tool of

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oppression. That doesn't sound like it will make for great drama, but it

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does, it is about characters that you like and care about, and it has

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got a foodbank sequence that is one of the most perfect pieces of

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film-making, understated film-making. The cameras stay a long

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way away from the character, they watch the action play out in real

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time, and it is so powerful. So moving. It is not just that it has a

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message, the way in which tells the story is powerful. As a piece of

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film-making, it is really brilliant. I, Daniel Blake is out on DVD if you

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don't want to go to the cinema, stay at home and watch and possibly sob!

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It is a good week in all those varieties.

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A quick reminder before we go that you'll find more film news

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and reviews from across the BBC online at bbc.co.uk/film.

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And you can find all our previous programmes on the BBC iPlayer.

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Good evening. We saw a fair bit of cloud and rain through the day, all

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working northwards, and this was a picture taken not so long ago by one

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of our Weather Watchers in Barnsley, big puddles in the garden, and we

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are expecting

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