:00:00. > :00:00.be New Zealand bringing you the latest from the Lions camp ahead of
:00:07. > :00:07.the third test. But for now, on BBC News, it is time for the film
:00:08. > :00:30.review. Welcome to The Film Review on BBC
:00:31. > :00:36.News. Taking us through the week was Maximo releases is Mark Kermode.
:00:37. > :00:43.This week we have It Comes At Night, which is a very creepy thriller. The
:00:44. > :00:53.Midwife with Catherine Deneuve and Catherine Frot. And Spider-man:
:00:54. > :00:58.Homecoming. It Comes At Night. I have read enough to know that this
:00:59. > :01:04.is your kind of film, and so not mine. You have two minutes to
:01:05. > :01:08.persuade me. It is not a jump scare horror like the trailers make it
:01:09. > :01:12.look like. If you expect that you will be disappointed. It is a creepy
:01:13. > :01:18.thriller. It is set after the outbreak of one unspecified played
:01:19. > :01:23.like incident which has pretty much done for civilisation. There was a
:01:24. > :01:28.family, mother, father, son living in a remote woodland. The windows
:01:29. > :01:31.are boarded up, there is a corridor with a red door which is the elite
:01:32. > :01:35.access to the outside world. They have to make a decision about
:01:36. > :01:40.whether or not to accept another family into their home. They would
:01:41. > :01:45.bring friendship and food supplies but also brings suspicion and
:01:46. > :01:54.paranoia and desire, and mysterious sleepwalking. Here is a clip. Angela
:01:55. > :02:00.is an grandpa's room. She was having nightmares so I woke up. I was in
:02:01. > :02:07.the back wall, I saw the door open, I heard something. Andrew was their?
:02:08. > :02:37.Yes. Does he sleepwalk? No, it doesn't
:02:38. > :02:41.make any sense. It is all that claustrophobic, is it? You get the
:02:42. > :02:48.sense of people starting to distrust each other and be suspicious of each
:02:49. > :02:52.other. If you think of a film like The Witch that has deep themes, they
:02:53. > :03:00.are creepy but not full of jump scares. They make you feel very
:03:01. > :03:03.worried and uncomfortable. The sound effects and a score work in favour
:03:04. > :03:09.of this film. It was terrific. It occupies a realm between being awake
:03:10. > :03:15.and being asleep. It contracts during certain sequences. Maybe we
:03:16. > :03:20.are, maybe we are not awake or asleep. It is what happens when you
:03:21. > :03:25.lose track of objective reality and you just start to trust your fears.
:03:26. > :03:29.It is like that classic horror movie with a cold hand on the back of the
:03:30. > :03:34.neck. It is not the film the trainers make it look like. They
:03:35. > :03:39.make it look like it is a slam bang horror. If you want something that
:03:40. > :03:43.is going to cause you to lose sleep, you should see it. I think you would
:03:44. > :04:02.not enjoy it but admire it. It is all to do with what is implied
:04:03. > :04:10.rather than what is actually shown. Which is the sort of film that is
:04:11. > :04:17.the most frightening. I hear you, in terms of the skill that went into
:04:18. > :04:25.it. The Midwife is about a friendship between the two main
:04:26. > :04:28.characters. Catherine Deneuve is Beatrice, her father's lover has had
:04:29. > :04:36.a medical diagnosis, suddenly she reappears. What do you want? It
:04:37. > :04:40.turns out maybe she wants friendship, closure, maybe this
:04:41. > :04:49.financial, who knows? These two characters start, one of these
:04:50. > :04:53.characters drinks and gambles. The key distinction between them is that
:04:54. > :05:00.one of them has been involved in bringing children into the world.
:05:01. > :05:04.What I like about this was it has well observed characters. It has
:05:05. > :05:10.people in professions that you actually believe in. I can
:05:11. > :05:19.understand all of those things that happen and I can think that they
:05:20. > :05:22.really have these stories. Has a rather over emphatic and tingling
:05:23. > :05:26.score. It tells you things are moving when you did not need to be
:05:27. > :05:31.taught. It was very or played with some very fine performances. It is
:05:32. > :05:34.understated. For the most part, it allows you to observe the
:05:35. > :05:39.characters. Most important to believe in them. And that is
:05:40. > :05:48.important, to have characters that you can absolutely believe in. And
:05:49. > :05:52.that, oddly enough brings us to Spider-man: Homecoming. We spoke
:05:53. > :06:04.before uploading. I said that this was a low-key character study posing
:06:05. > :06:10.as a superhero movie but this is like Ferris Bueller's Day off with
:06:11. > :06:20.added wedding. He also happens to have the superpowers, and he wants
:06:21. > :06:26.to become an Avenger. What he is desperately trying to do is to punch
:06:27. > :06:27.above his weight, whilst also keeping his identity absolutely
:06:28. > :07:16.secret. Here is a clip. What are you doing in my room? ,
:07:17. > :07:27.though. Are you an Avenger? Can keep a secret? This is the craziest thing
:07:28. > :07:31.that has ever happened to me. We are both chuckling. This is Tom Holland,
:07:32. > :07:36.who won the BAFTA award, a rising star. It is doing something
:07:37. > :07:41.different with the character. Since I have been working as a critic this
:07:42. > :07:46.is the third or fourth Spider-Man film and it is, how many times you
:07:47. > :07:49.going to reboot this? They are playing to the adolescent story, the
:07:50. > :07:54.school boy story, the high school story, so there is all the action
:07:55. > :07:57.stuff, web spinning and dealing with criminals, but really what makes it
:07:58. > :08:02.work is the high school stuff, the stuff about wanting to fit in and
:08:03. > :08:08.being awkward, wanting to grow up but not Ashley growing up yet, and
:08:09. > :08:14.what he has actually got to do is hang out in the canteen. I liked it
:08:15. > :08:17.very much. I went in thinking, do we really need to go here, all over
:08:18. > :08:23.again? What this does do something different. He's very good. He's very
:08:24. > :08:28.charming in a very kind of oddball way. Only one false step in the
:08:29. > :08:33.film, there's a lovely sequence which is a direct reference to
:08:34. > :08:45.Ferris Bueller 's Day off, and they make the wrecked reference to it. It
:08:46. > :08:51.sounds good. It sounds different. You have been loving this, this
:08:52. > :08:55.week, as anyone who has been following you on Twitter Baby
:08:56. > :09:02.Driver. It is a car chase movie which is actually a musical.
:09:03. > :09:07.Everything in it is cut to a fantastic selection of pop tunes.
:09:08. > :09:12.The joy of it, for me, is this. It is really brilliant cinema, C on a
:09:13. > :09:16.big screen with a good sound system, it is witty, clever, poignant and
:09:17. > :09:22.nostalgic and it is made by somebody who was going to direct another
:09:23. > :09:26.movie and then walked away because it wasn't a film he wanted it to be.
:09:27. > :09:30.Now he has made exactly the movie he wanted and it is a pleasure to see a
:09:31. > :09:36.director like Edgar Wright saying, this is the film I want to make. I
:09:37. > :09:39.have seen it three times. It is like an American in Paris meets the
:09:40. > :09:46.French connection. I hear you, seat the big screen. That said, a quick
:09:47. > :09:52.thought for anyone not wanting to see on the big screen, what is out
:09:53. > :09:56.on DVD? I mentioned it early on, Logan. It is a film about ageing,
:09:57. > :10:04.about regret, about losing the powers that you once had. It is
:10:05. > :10:09.really well directed. You can do something really interesting with
:10:10. > :10:15.the superhero theme, and as long as we get movies like that and
:10:16. > :10:18.Spider-Man, there will always be new light, people say, haven't we had
:10:19. > :10:24.enough of this? But as long as people keep reinventing it, it will
:10:25. > :10:28.not die out. That is a good week. Yes, but you must go and see It
:10:29. > :10:37.Comes At Night. Get under your skin and you will appreciate it. You are
:10:38. > :10:40.laughing! That said, still lovely to see you, as ever. Mark Kermode,
:10:41. > :10:46.thank you. A reminder that you can find all the film News and reviews
:10:47. > :10:52.online at the usual address. And you can find all of our previous
:10:53. > :10:59.programmes on the BBC iPlayer. That is it this week. Enjoy your cinema
:11:00. > :11:00.going. Those that you are brave enough to go and see! Goodbye.