:00:00. > :00:21.Welcome to The Film Review on BBC News.
:00:22. > :00:35.Taking us through the week was Maximo releases is Mark Kermode.
:00:36. > :00:38.Taking us through the week's film releases is Mark Kermode.
:00:39. > :00:41.This week we have It Comes At Night, which is a very creepy thriller.
:00:42. > :00:43.The Midwife with Catherine Deneuve and Catherine Frot.
:00:44. > :00:53.I have read enough to know that this is your kind
:00:54. > :01:04.It is not a jump-scare horror like the trailers make it look like.
:01:05. > :01:06.If you expect that, you will be disappointed.
:01:07. > :01:17.It is set after the outbreak of an unspecified plague-like incident,
:01:18. > :01:18.which has pretty much done for civilisation.
:01:19. > :01:21.There was a family, mother, father, son living in a remote woodland.
:01:22. > :01:28.The windows are boarded up, there is a corridor with a red door
:01:29. > :01:40.which is the only access to the outside world.
:01:41. > :01:42.When an intruder breaks into the house, they have to make
:01:43. > :01:44.a decision about whether or not to accept
:01:45. > :01:48.They would bring friendship and food supplies, but also bring suspicion
:01:49. > :01:50.and paranoia and desire, and mysterious sleepwalking.
:01:51. > :01:57.She was having nightmares so I woke up.
:01:58. > :02:01.I was in the back hall, I saw the door open, I heard something.
:02:02. > :02:31.Think real hard. Tell me what you remember. I can't remember.
:02:32. > :02:38.It is all that claustrophobic, is it?
:02:39. > :02:41.You get the sense of people starting to distrust each other and be
:02:42. > :02:47.If you think of a film like The Witch that has deep themes,
:02:48. > :02:49.they are creepy but not full of jump scares.
:02:50. > :02:54.They make you feel very worried and uncomfortable.
:02:55. > :02:57.The sound effects and score work in favour of this film.
:02:58. > :03:07.It occupies a realm between being awake and being asleep.
:03:08. > :03:16.The screen contracts during certain sequences.
:03:17. > :03:20.It is implying it is a dream sequence.
:03:21. > :03:22.Maybe we are, maybe we are not awake or asleep.
:03:23. > :03:25.It is what happens when you lose track of objective reality
:03:26. > :03:27.and you just start to trust your fears.
:03:28. > :03:29.It is like that classic horror movie with a cold hand
:03:30. > :03:33.It is not the film the trailers make it look like.
:03:34. > :03:36.They make it look like it is a slam-bang horror.
:03:37. > :03:39.If you want something that is going to cause you to lose
:03:40. > :03:48.I think you would not enjoy it but admire it.
:03:49. > :03:56.The director is only in his 20s. Yes, it is just ridiculous, he is
:03:57. > :03:59.Yes, it is just ridiculous, he is incredibly talented.
:04:00. > :04:03.It is all to do with what is implied rather than what is actually shown.
:04:04. > :04:06.Which is the sort of film that is the most frightening.
:04:07. > :04:10.I hear you, in terms of the skill that went into it.
:04:11. > :04:18.The Midwife is about a friendship between the two main characters.
:04:19. > :04:23.Catherine Deneuve is Beatrice, her father's lover has had
:04:24. > :04:29.a medical diagnosis, suddenly she reappears.
:04:30. > :04:38.It turns out maybe she wants friendship, closure,
:04:39. > :04:59.These two characters start to build a friendship,
:05:00. > :05:05.The key distinction between them is that one of them has been
:05:06. > :05:07.involved in bringing children into the world.
:05:08. > :05:09.What I like about this was it has well-observed characters.
:05:10. > :05:13.It has people in professions that you actually believe in.
:05:14. > :05:16.I can understand all of those things that happen and I can think
:05:17. > :05:23.It has a rather over-emphatic and tingling score.
:05:24. > :05:26.It tells you things are moving when you did not need to be taught.
:05:27. > :05:28.It was played with some very fine performances.
:05:29. > :05:33.For the most part, it allows you to observe the characters.
:05:34. > :05:38.And that is important, to have characters that you can
:05:39. > :05:49.And that is on my list, oddly enough.
:05:50. > :05:58.And that, oddly enough brings us to Spider-man: Homecoming.
:05:59. > :06:03.I said that this was a low-key character study posing
:06:04. > :06:09.as a superhero movie, but this is like Ferris Bueller's
:06:10. > :06:14.He also happens to have the superpowers, and he wants
:06:15. > :06:20.What he is desperately trying to do is to punch above his weight,
:06:21. > :06:24.whilst also keeping his identity absolutely secret.
:06:25. > :07:19.This is the craziest thing that has ever happened to me.
:07:20. > :07:27.This is Tom Holland, who won the BAFTA award, a rising star.
:07:28. > :07:36.It is doing something different with the character.
:07:37. > :07:40.We have seen many incarnations of Spiderman.
:07:41. > :07:43.Since I have been working as a critic this is the third
:07:44. > :07:45.or fourth Spider-Man film - how many times are you
:07:46. > :07:49.They are playing to the adolescent story, the school boy story,
:07:50. > :07:51.the high school story, so there is all the action stuff,
:07:52. > :07:53.web spinning and dealing with criminals, but really
:07:54. > :07:56.what makes it work is the high school stuff, the stuff
:07:57. > :07:58.about wanting to fit in and being awkward,
:07:59. > :08:02.wanting to grow up but not actually growing up yet,
:08:03. > :08:06.and what he has actually got to do is hang out in the canteen.
:08:07. > :08:11.I went in thinking, do we really need to go here, all over again?
:08:12. > :08:14.But this does do something different.
:08:15. > :08:22.He's very charming in a very kind of oddball way.
:08:23. > :08:25.Only one false step in the film, there's a lovely sequence
:08:26. > :08:28.which is a direct reference to Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and
:08:29. > :08:47.You have been loving this, this week, as anyone who has been
:08:48. > :08:49.following you on Twitter, Baby Driver.
:08:50. > :08:54.It is a car chase movie which is actually a musical.
:08:55. > :08:58.Everything in it is cut to a fantastic selection of pop tunes.
:08:59. > :09:09.It is really brilliant cinema, see it on a big screen with a good sound
:09:10. > :09:11.system, it is witty, clever, poignant and nostalgic
:09:12. > :09:14.and it is made by somebody who was going to direct another
:09:15. > :09:16.movie and then walked away because it wasn't
:09:17. > :09:23.Now he has made exactly the movie he wanted and it is a pleasure
:09:24. > :09:26.to see a director like Edgar Wright saying, this is the
:09:27. > :09:33.It is like an American in Paris meets the French connection.
:09:34. > :09:37.I hear you, see it on the big screen.
:09:38. > :09:40.That said, a quick thought for anyone not wanting
:09:41. > :09:43.to see on the big screen, what is out on DVD?
:09:44. > :09:49.It is a film about ageing, about regret, about losing
:09:50. > :10:04.You can do something really interesting with the superhero
:10:05. > :10:07.theme, and as long as we get movies like that and Spider-Man,
:10:08. > :10:15.there will always be new life, people say, haven't we had
:10:16. > :10:18.But as long as people keep reinventing it,
:10:19. > :10:26.Yes, but you must go and see It Comes At Night.
:10:27. > :10:32.It will get under your skin and you will appreciate it.
:10:33. > :10:37.That said, still lovely to see you, as ever.
:10:38. > :10:42.A reminder that you can find all the film news and reviews online
:10:43. > :10:47.And you can find all of our previous programmes on the BBC iPlayer.
:10:48. > :11:06.Whatever it is you are brave enough to see.
:11:07. > :11:12.We have got some more warm sunshine across many parts of the country in
:11:13. > :11:14.the second half of the weekend. This