Detroit, Logan Lucky and American Made The Film Review

to the women's World Cup final in rugby with England hoping to take

the cup. Now it's time for the film of you. -- Film Review.

Hello and welcome to the Film Review on BBC News.

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

A splendidly mixed bag. We have Detroit, the new movie by Kathryn

Bigelow. We have Logan Lucky, which I keep wanting to call Lucky Logan

because it looks like the look words should be round way. And Tom Cruise

is back doing his best in American Made. I'm glad you got a Logan Lucky

issue because I had as well. I keep wanting to say Lucky Logan. Detroit,

I've seen 'S I'm a big fan of Kathryn Bigelow

who did The Hurt Locker and zero. 30. It's set in the Detroit riots,

it begins with a broad canvas as the film focuses in on a particular

event. At the beginning, a speak easy is pleaded, rioting breaks out,

the state troopers and national guardsmen are sent in, the rioting

continues. We follow a character played by a musician who is denied

his moment in the spotlight because the riots are building out. He takes

refuge in the Algiers Motel. The police disarmed on the motel where

they believe there was a sniper. The police are led by a character called

Krause played by Will Poulter. Use a summer by the writer is a character

inspired by the recorded deed of a Detroit policeman, although he is a

fictional character. Meanwhile John Boyega who is a brilliant actor, is

a security guard who finds himself in the middle of an impossible

situation. He's somebody distrusted by both sides and attempts to make

peace with both sides. He was a clip with John Boyega.

I'm with United Security, I'm going to the grocery

Hey, all things considered, this is pretty good.

He's done what they've done before. Turning it into a drama from real

life. The film narrows down from a single corridor of the Algiers Motel

within terrifying interrogation takes place under the auspices of a

cop played by Will Poulter. The thing I liked about this is that

Kathryn Bigelow is extremely dextrous and the movie seems to move

through different genres. It starts off as a social document then moves

into something almost a musical at one point, when it is in the hotel

it becomes a horror movie. Some people have taken issue with this

but you remember Kathryn Bigelow directed Near .Com great horror

movie. I think that is a great strength. It's a brilliant editing

job. It's like jostling through a crowd of people, different owners,

focusing on one central event. But it's the performances that Harriet.

John Boyega is brilliant, he has a way of telegraphing this strong

emotions through tiniest of faces. Will Poulter is fantastic. He plays

a character with a facade of innocence. It's a typecast that

could easily be character to caricature.

It's often terrifying and Kathryn Bigelow is a fantastic film-maker.

It's an urgent film, feeling urgent and contemporary. That's definitely

on the list. What of Logan Lucky? Neither urgent

or contemporary. Steven Soderbergh is back and it's a heist movie. It's

described in one moment as Ovesen's 7-11. Channing Tatum is the

mastermind behind a robbery of a NASCAR racetrack. He will do it with

his brother Adam Driver. It's a heist caper movie, an impossible

job, it can't be done. They have to figure a way to do that with tunnels

under the track. And get and explosive expert played by Daniel

Craig. It's written by Rebecca Blunt who nobody has heard of before, and

some people have taken it to be a nom de plume for the director. But

they say no, it's someone we've heard before. There is satire,

American flag-waving for Memorial Day, and one person says NASCAR is

like America, you're making us harm America. But the fact is all that

satire is very much like NASCAR, it goes past year and then we're back.

I enjoyed it, it's fun, flippant and flimsy. It doesn't really stand up.

I have a sense you thought about it deeply since you thought it? I have

to say, after I finished smiling my way through the movie, I'm moved to

the next thing pretty swiftly. The fact is, it's not easy to make a

film that is fun and flippant. There are enough bad movies out there

trying to do that. This does it rather well.

Joe Custer Tom Cruise. The thing that Tom Cruise does best is flying,

wearing aviator shades and smiling in a way that says trust me, I'm Tom

Cruise. This is directed by Doug Liman and some is true and not true.

A smuggler claim to work for the CIA. He is recruited by a mysterious

shadowy figure played by Donald Gleeson, who never puts a foot

wrong. He says I know you are smuggling cigars, and you need to

work for us now. We will give you this airline. Here is a clip.

You run the company but after hours can you work for us.

So anyone finds out about it, family, friends, even Lucy.

If you're doing it for the good guys, yeah.

I'm backing, already. But there's a lovely moment of threat there when

Donal Gleeson says it's Lucy isn't it? Suddenly see the harder edge.

What then happens is, he starts off allegedly working for the CIA

filming the Communist insurgents, then gets mixed up with Pablo

Escobar, flying cocaine to the US, then has to run drug. The whole

thing has a chaotic momentum. Meanwhile, money is piling up

everywhere. They don't have anywhere to put it any more. It reminded me

of a lot of films, things like Air America, or dogs, catch me if you

can. The latter has much more scrutiny. It has a pace but none of

the depth of Goodfellas. If you think of things like the Murray and

think, was aboard? No. It was fun while it was on screen. It's a movie

that seems to be based around an understanding of, there is a think

that Tom Cruise does. You can like or dislike Tom Cruise, but there is

a thing he does which is he can do that... That big slightly crazy

smile and you buy into it. Again, I thought it was enjoyable fun.

Detroit is a movie with lots substance and so much going to it,

and in the case of American Made and Logan Lucky, not lucky Logan, they

won't stick in the mind like Detroit will. One that will start in the

mind is the one you will pick as the best one. Dunkirk, have you seen it?

I haven't, and it's high on my list. You need to see it in IMAX if

possible. It is an overwhelming experience, it's Christopher Nolan.

He is such a great champion of film. I saw this in IMAX 70 millimetre.

The interesting thing is, it's very complex. It is three times doctors,

one week, one day, one hour. All intertwined. If you have been a fan

of Nolan since Memento, you know he's interested in travelling time.

But it's a straightforward story. It's the story of Dunkirk. As a

piece of cinema, it's terrific. I've seen it twice now and both times,

the end of the screening, everyone has been silent. People have

literally been like that. That's a testament to how powerful it is.

Seared on the biggest screen possible. A brief word about your

DVD pick? Lady Macbeth. Florence Pugh is brilliant in this adaptation

of the story. The script is by Alistair Burt -- Alistair Burt. She

refuses to be vilified by society. Fantastic sound design, really

powerful. That sounds like something only a film critic would say but

believe me, it's the film you watch with your ears and it's a fine piece

of work. Good stuff. A quick reminder before we go that

you'll find more film news and reviews from across the BBC

online at bbc.co.uk/mark kermode. And you can find all our previous

programmes on the BBC iPlayer. Hello. A fairly quiet weekend of

whether at home but across the other side of the Atlantic, a