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Hello and welcome to The Film Review on BBC News.

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

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We have some great stuff. We have Under The Shadow which is a really

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terrific horror movie, a psychological thriller set in Iran.

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You have Deepwater Horizon based on a true life disaster. And Miss

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Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children, which is of course the new

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film by Tim Burton, how could it be anything else? Now, if you were to

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pick a genre, and Iranians horror movie might not be the one you would

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leap to. The interesting thing about Under The Shadow is it is set in

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Iran, filmed in Jordan and made by a British company. The director is

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born in Arana but lives in Britain. It is the British submission for the

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foreign language film for the Oscars. It is a genuinely

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international production. The story is a mother and a apartment in Iran

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in 1988 during the war. The mother is isolated and cannot continue

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medical studies owing to some political views she previously

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expressed. An unexploded missile come through the roof of the

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apartment and with it, according to the mother's daughter, have come

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malevolent spirits that she is convinced are now walking around the

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apartment and attempting to get her and had Dole. What the film does

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radiantly is it sets these two characters in this scary situation

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but then asks how much of what is happening is really happening and

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how much of it are the projections of the anxieties and fears of the

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mother? Here is a clip. where you can see the Baumbach clip

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that the way the camera is used is by the very natural and then becomes

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impressionist. The sound is doing an awful lot of the heavy lifting in

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terms of the atmosphere. What I love about this film is on the one hand

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it owes a debt to the Guillermo del Toro fable fantasy genre about

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warfare. There is a bit of the Babadook in their in as far as how

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much is the mother projecting this onto the child. The Japanese film

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called dark water is also similar. Also the Iranian vampire Western

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film described at the time. It knows all of these references but it does

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something new with them. It pushes the genre forward. It is really

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confident. It makes us care about the characters. It has real

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substance to it. When it needs to be scary, it knows what scares us.

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Often you get horror films that rely on things going boo loudly. This has

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moments of shivering. Your skin crawl. The care about the characters

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and the situation. I want to go and see it again straightaway. It is one

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of my favourite films of the year so far but stop it is fantastic and I

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advise everybody to check it out. There is an historical element of

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films this week. Deepwater Horizon is based on the real-life story of

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the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil rig explosion but wiggly enough this is

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like an old-fashioned disaster movie. Something like the or

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Towering Inferno. We have cut Russell -- something like Poseidon.

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We have cut Russell and John Malkovich. We have Mark Wahlberg as

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the heroic figure. Peter Berg, the director, made a good decision to

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stay away from CGI and do as many effects as possible physically. They

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built the replica of the oil rig. Apparently he went oil school to

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learn how an oil rig works. And you really do feel that. One word of

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advice. If you are going to see this it is worth seeing it on a big

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screen. It is a visceral movie. It is about the physicality of the

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situation. I saw this on a very big screen and I was impressed by it. It

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is in the tradition of those kind of disaster movies although that is not

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a bad thing. I have more respect for them than some people do. What we

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have seen is the gas coming up. Water comes up and mud comes up and

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you get this sense of a great big beast of a platform that is at

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rating point for quite a long time. It works very well in building up

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the tension. I like Tim Burton movie. So delight. I like the two

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Jews. What about this on? Betelgeuse is such a great film -- Beetlejuice.

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The story is that Eva Green is the Miss Peregrine who runs this home

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that exists in a temporal loop and has pupils that include a girl might

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than air, a girl with teeth in the back of her neck, an invisible boy,

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boy who is full of these. These are fantastical creatures and the newest

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arrival is Asa Butterfield's Jake. As a tragedy occurs with his

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grandfather he is going out to find out about the home. You are what is

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known in common parlance as wicked. 51 seconds late, Fiona. Sorry, Miss

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Peregrine. How many carrots do you need for supper? Fine just one will

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do. They have been persecuted through the ages, hence we live in

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places like this. I am a type of peculiar. You turn into a bird? Fine

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I do. Yes. The main skill is the manipulation of time. We choose a

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safe place and date and create a loop. What do you mean? Fine you

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reset the loop and the day can be lived again. Reset it daily and you

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can live there forever. In Thai the outside world. She commits herself

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to the creation of upkeep of a place like this. A home pork Julia

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children. That was not an EU approves Carat! This is such a Tim

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Burton movie. You know where you are. You know from the visual style.

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My problem is the narrative is not sure-footed. It is a complicated

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narrative with time loops and different monsters and creatures.

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Sometimes it is mad, sometimes models. It is a 12 A certificate

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movie for a reason. Younger children will find some of the monsters scary

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because there are some creations in there, I am 54 and I found some of

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them creepy. I like it for the carnivalesque quality of it. I like

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the fact that it has that Tim Burton embracing difference. That is what

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he loves. It is just not got the classic narrative thread that I

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think the best of Tim Burton's works have. You talk about Beetlejuice and

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you have been talking about it being another sequel to it and that Phil

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makes sense in its own strange way but this one doesn't in the same

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way. It is fun and entertaining but it isn't classic Tim Burton. I had a

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weekend free so what should I see this weekend? A wonderful film out

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called the Girl with All the Gifts. Another horror film. Directed by

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Colm McCarthy. Set in the future in which the country is overrun by

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hungry people, sort of zombies but children may hold the key to a cure.

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It is really intelligent, really well played. It is made with a

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limited judge budget -- budget of about ?4 million and it creates a

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world with its resources. It is not afraid to treat its audience as if

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they are smart. It says come with us on this journey. It is interesting

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in terms of its difference with the novel which was written at the same

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time as the real script. This is out at the same time as Under The Shadow

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and it is really exciting. Evidence that you can empathise with zombies?

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Absolutely. Just don't call them zombies, call them hungries. The

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DVDs out? When Marnie Was There. It received a slightly lukewarm

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response from critics, I'm fairly so. It transposes the action to

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Japan. It keeps the central magic of the story about two lost souls

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finding each other across a temporal divide. The animation is beautiful.

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The storytelling, I was talking about the storytelling not being

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that clear in the Tim Burton film but the drawings are not only

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beautifully done but it is the lines of the narrative. Like best movies,

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it can be seen by a young or old audience. Everyone will get

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something out of it and everyone can embrace it. It is superb as mark,

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we're out of time. Thank you. A reminder before we go you will find

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

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And you can catch up on our previous programmes on the BBC iPlayer.

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well, the weather has been hit and miss today for most of us, not too

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bad at

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