:00:00. > :00:00.whose other passion is oil painting. That's all on Sportsday at 6. 30pm.
:00:00. > :00:18.Now it's time for the Film Review. Hello and welcome to
:00:19. > :00:20.the Film Review on BBC News. To take us through this week's
:00:21. > :00:30.cinema releases is Mark Kermode. They're not bad. We're in awards
:00:31. > :00:38.season. We're getting all the awards contenders. We have Room, an
:00:39. > :00:49.adaptation of a novel. We have Creed, Rocky is back... Again! We
:00:50. > :00:54.have The Reverend Peyton's the Revenant. Room I think I'm seeing it
:00:55. > :00:59.tomorrow night. It's a wrenching story, actually. I have to begin by
:01:00. > :01:03.saying Room is not the film many people expected it to be. It's not a
:01:04. > :01:11.horror film about captivity or crime. It's adapted by the novelist
:01:12. > :01:16.from her own novel. Brie Larson stars Ayrad young -- as a young
:01:17. > :01:20.woman raising a child in a ten by ten enclosure. To the child, it is
:01:21. > :01:25.the whole world that goes, as he says, it goes in every direction
:01:26. > :01:31.right to the end. He's just turned five. She, having protected him for
:01:32. > :01:34.the whole of his life from the horror of their situation, is
:01:35. > :01:43.finally starting to tell him about the world beyond room. Here's a
:01:44. > :01:47.clip. Do you remember how Alice wasn't always in wonderland? She
:01:48. > :01:52.fell down, down, down deep in a hole. Right, well I wasn't always in
:01:53. > :01:58.room. I'm like Alice. I was a little girl named Joy. Nah. I lived in a
:01:59. > :02:03.house with my mom and my dad. You would call them grandma and grandpa.
:02:04. > :02:10.A house. House! It was in the world. There was a backyard. There was a
:02:11. > :02:17.hammock. We would swing in the hammock and eat ice-cream; a A TV
:02:18. > :02:21.house? No, are you listening to me? When I was 17, I was walking home
:02:22. > :02:30.from school. Where was I? Still up in heaven. There was a guy, we call
:02:31. > :02:35.him old Nick. What's the dog's name? There wasn't a dog... Basically, the
:02:36. > :02:40.film is about her trying to explain to him that there is a larger world.
:02:41. > :02:45.So, I think things are important to say, firstly, it's not a horror
:02:46. > :02:49.film. It's not the distressing - there are things in it that are
:02:50. > :02:55.distressing. It's the kind of film that makes you say words like
:02:56. > :03:03.uplifting and life affirming. Fantastic performances by Brie
:03:04. > :03:09.Larson. It is directed by Lenny Abrahamson. I think the key
:03:10. > :03:12.directorial style is an acute eye for truthfulness. Whilst watching
:03:13. > :03:15.this film, we see the world through those two characters' eyes. We see
:03:16. > :03:19.through the child's eyes what the world could be. We see through her
:03:20. > :03:24.eyes what the world is. It is and this sounds like a strange thing to
:03:25. > :03:28.say, it's a-story about a mother-son bond. I think it's really
:03:29. > :03:33.remarkable. I've seen it twice now. I have been quite overwhelmed by it
:03:34. > :03:37.both times. It is genuinely one of those films that proves you can
:03:38. > :03:42.approach any subject matter in any number of different ways. It is
:03:43. > :03:47.wholly unexploittive. It is a film that seems to get to a profound
:03:48. > :03:52.humage truth. -- human truth. The phrase that I come back to, it's not
:03:53. > :03:57.the film you think it is. This is not a horror movie. This is not
:03:58. > :04:01.Michael. This is something completely different about a mother
:04:02. > :04:07.and child. I commend it to you very heartily. The book on which it's
:04:08. > :04:13.base issed very moving. -- based is very moving. See the film. It's
:04:14. > :04:22.something. Now, Creed. Just when you thought there was no life left in
:04:23. > :04:29.the old punch bag, the Rocky franchise is back directed and
:04:30. > :04:33.Crougal. They've taken a left turn. Michael B Johnson is the son of
:04:34. > :04:39.Apollo Creed. He goes to Rocky Balboa to say I want you to train
:04:40. > :04:43.me. Rocky initially says no. Of course, Adonis won't take no for an
:04:44. > :04:49.answer. What I liked about the film, firstly, it's made by people who
:04:50. > :04:53.have a reference for the -- reverence for the original series.
:04:54. > :04:58.But they aren't scared to move it on. Great performance by Michael B
:04:59. > :05:03.Jordan and Sylvester Stallone who has got his first Golden Globe after
:05:04. > :05:07.all these years, playing this wounded, lonely bear, who is dealing
:05:08. > :05:11.with his own legacy and dealing with the legacy of having been this
:05:12. > :05:15.champion. Then brought back into the ring by this young, Rising Star in
:05:16. > :05:19.whom he sees something of himself. You know, I really enjoyed it. I
:05:20. > :05:24.like the characters. You can't quite believe it. I haven't heard anyone
:05:25. > :05:28.wax so lyrical about a Rocky film for many years. It's really good. It
:05:29. > :05:37.will give Rocky fans what they want and bring in an entire new
:05:38. > :05:43.generation. It's smartly re-invented a franchise. Now the Revenant.
:05:44. > :05:48.Leonardo DiCaprio is a dead cert for on Oscar. There is a lot of
:05:49. > :05:53.suffering in this movie. It's based on the legend of frontiersman and
:05:54. > :05:58.fur trapper glass Glass who - Hugh Glass who was left for dead after
:05:59. > :06:04.being mauled by a bear. The movie is more physical than verbal, due not
:06:05. > :06:54.least to some spectacular cinematography. Let's see a clip.
:06:55. > :07:03.Wow. You know... The star of the show was the American west. You just
:07:04. > :07:06.look at the scenery and it's extraordinary. It's beautiful. The
:07:07. > :07:10.whole film was shot in what they like to refer to as magic hour. It's
:07:11. > :07:16.the hour-and-a-half that you actually get when the light has all
:07:17. > :07:20.the natural light. There was little filming they could have each day.
:07:21. > :07:24.They had to chase the snow as well. It's muscular film making. It's film
:07:25. > :07:28.making that's very physical. You could smell them actually. They
:07:29. > :07:33.didn't wash! Interestingly enough, it almost has a mondo tinge to it.
:07:34. > :07:38.You feel that you are really seeing those people doing this stuff. It's
:07:39. > :07:45.really Leonardo DiCaprio going into freezing water, he's chomping down
:07:46. > :07:49.on raw bison liver. There are concessions to artificiality. I have
:07:50. > :07:57.to say, I don't think it's quite the master piece that some people think.
:07:58. > :08:00.I have always been slightly concerned about some of the films
:08:01. > :08:04.he's done. But the performance by Leonardo DiCaprio is at the centre
:08:05. > :08:10.of it. If he doesn't win the Oscar, nothing will. The Bear might win.
:08:11. > :08:16.Worth saying that as far as supporting performances, a lot of
:08:17. > :08:20.attention for Tom Hardy, but Will Poulter is fantastic. He's really,
:08:21. > :08:23.really good. See it on the big screen. See it on the biggest
:08:24. > :08:28.possible screen. It's a film in which the virtue that it has, it is
:08:29. > :08:34.the immersive cinematic experience. It starts, it goes. One final point,
:08:35. > :08:37.I love Birdman too, but the dialogue is everything. I couldn't make most
:08:38. > :08:41.of the dialogue out. I don't think it matters. And there's not much of
:08:42. > :08:46.it. It is a physical film. It is a film in which it's all to do with
:08:47. > :08:49.the physicality. I liked it, I've seen it twice. The first time I
:08:50. > :08:53.didn't see it on a big enough screen. The second time on the big
:08:54. > :08:57.screen, oh, OK, now I get this. I have to perhaps do that. Your best
:08:58. > :09:00.of the week is, as you predicted, this is the Best Film about mops
:09:01. > :09:05.I've ever seen. This is the Best Film out at the moment. This is Joy.
:09:06. > :09:08.It is the story of the woman who invented the miracle mop, with the
:09:09. > :09:12.central performance by Jennifer Lawrence. The film is all over the
:09:13. > :09:18.place. But you've seen it. I have. You really want her to succeed. Guys
:09:19. > :09:22.on television demonstrating the mop on the home shopping channel, you
:09:23. > :09:28.want people to go, that's a great idea, I'll buy that. Any film which
:09:29. > :09:32.makes you involved in whether or not somebody adequately demonstrates a
:09:33. > :09:41.self-wringing mop is doing something that not many movies do. Robert
:09:42. > :09:45.DiNero wasn't half bad either. No, working for a director who doesn't
:09:46. > :09:49.think what he should do is rest on his laurels, but actually do
:09:50. > :10:00.something. Good. Your DVD, another contender for the best. Oscar
:10:01. > :10:05.nominated, ram Charlotte Rampling. This is a drama about 45 years of
:10:06. > :10:09.marriage, coming up to an anniversary, where the spectre of a
:10:10. > :10:17.past love appears. It's the beginning of a fracture in the
:10:18. > :10:26.relationship. Brilliantly played by Tom Willem Coertzen and shore -- Tom
:10:27. > :10:31.Kourtney and Charlotte Rampling. There is a touch of Michael Hanniker
:10:32. > :10:35.about it, that icy chill to it. You've seen it, right? Yeah. It's
:10:36. > :10:40.really good. It's really good. It's the Best Film about a 45 year
:10:41. > :10:44.marriage fracturing I've seen in a very long time. We've got mops,
:10:45. > :10:49.bears, everything this week. The one you have to see is Room. You have to
:10:50. > :10:57.see Room. Quick reminder before we go. More film news and reviews
:10:58. > :11:00.online, including all our previous shows, at bbc.co.uk/markKermode.
:11:01. > :11:05.That's all for this week. Thanks for watching, goodbye.