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the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. 50 mark, what do we have this week? it is a very mixed bunch this week. we have glass, the new film by m night shyamalan. mary queen of scots, a very modern historical drama. and beautiful boy, a tale of a family torn apart by addiction. so, let us start off with glass, a superhero film with a difference. yes, it is the latest from m night shyamalan, who scored a huge hit with sixth sense and had many flops

with things like lady in the water. this is a sequel that brings together characters from split, which came out in 2017, and from unbreakable which is from 2000, which you may not have seen, because although critics and fans think it is his best film, it wasn't seen by that many people. so it concerns a trio of characters who come to believe that they have powers which are reminiscent of superhero powers. bruce willis is david dunn who survived a train crash in unbreakable, and thinks he's indestructible. james mcavoy is kevin from split, he is inhabited by a hoard of different personalities, al of whom are awaiting the arrival of the beast, and samuel ljackson, he is mr glass, who is fragile on the outside, but brilliant of mind, and they are brought together in this psychiatric facility. here is a clip. miss patricia says that your bones can break if i like tap them, is that true? yes.

so what's your super power? your mind? what's mine? you're nine forever, right? yeah. that's incredible. you can see the world the way it really is, always. a kid who can never grow old. huh. are you ready? yeah. the thing with shyamalan's films, is they ride, to quote spinal tap, a very thin line between clever and stupid. you can do with it or say sorry, i'm not buying this. i did buy this, and i really enjoyed it as a result. one of the things i liked about it is, there is a remake of breathless, starring richard gere, that people sneer at, and i understand why they do, but they're wrong, it is a great film. there are many discussions in it

about the philosophical implications of the silver surfer. what i like is it takes that stuff seriously but playfully. in the case of this, it is taking the idea that comic books are representations of things that may exist in the real world. it refers to films like shock corridor, the ninth configuration and shutter island, which are fanciful and foolish but are good fun. i went with it. that said, i came out of the screening and a couple of people, they said "i didn't get that at all." idid. it think it is m night shyamalan's best film since signs, and if you like unbreakable you will find this to be a satisfying follow up. people who have never seen it will wonder what is going on, but i really enjoyed this and i really didn't expect to. unbreakable glass. very good. 0k, mary queen of scots. we have had the favourite, a royal historical drama, and now we have mary, queen of scots, which is, based on the life of mary stuart

and her rivalry with elizabeth. saoirse ronan and margot robbie, rivals to the throne. it's a historical drama, but a very modern take on it. it is a film ofjuxtaposition, catholics and protestants, english, scottish, and centrally men and women, and the two, the two central performances are basically, they are balanced against each other. so mary says "i will be the woman she cannot be, i will produce an heir, unlike her barren self." elizabeth says "god wants a woman to be a wife and mother, i choose to be a man." she describes herself as "more man than woman and the throne has made me so." she also refers to one of the male counterparts as "the closest thing i have to a wife." so the script is very witty and well done, and you have these terrific central performances, but the rest of the ensemble cast is really well played. people like ian hart and david tennant doing terrific work.

the whole film has a painterly look to it. it is directed byjosie rourke who comes from theatre. often if somebody comes from theatre, something doesn't gel, but this felt very cinematic. there is one scene, one scene which i thought 0k, this scene would have worked better on stage, but with the exception of that i felt like it was a lusty drama, really well told. wonderful swirling score, which comes out of the hills, and again, i went in thinking, i very much admire the performers, but i'm not sure, but i was really won over by it and i thought it was funny and witty and it had a really good central thesis of the opposites and i thought it was enjoyable. my editor, who studied history at university, pointed out they meet in film but in real life, but they never met. this is the one scene, and what happens is, they meet amid billowing sheets that come between them, and again, i think, on stage, yes, on screen, not so much. beautiful boy, in which a father

helps his son overcome addiction. tries to, so it is based on memoirs by david and nic sheff. david is played by steve carrell. he's the father who think he knows his son, until he discovers he is addicted to crystal meth. timothee chalamet is nic, the son, the promising young man who gets lost in his addiction and their relationship falls apart. here is a clip. why don't we just have lunch and talk, we can do that, right? how's karen and the kids? 0k, they're asking about you. i know they'd love... you're guilt tripping me, all right. no, i'mjust saying... i feel horrible about myself. i know they wanted you to be there, that's all. i'm sorry dad, ijust need some

money, all right, so, please just give me some money. where does this end? i have to see something through, this is kind of working out for me right now, i've got five days sober. it doesn't look it's working out. oh, it doesn't look like it's working out? so what, the therapy? you can come home, we'll make it work, please, nic. please. the thing with this, although it is based on the two sides sf the'stsrissr