Kristen Stewart, Spencer, The Card Counter, Eternals and Finch

Kermode and Mayo's Film Review

BBC

Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.7 • 8.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2021

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Summary

Kristen Stewart talks to Simon about her role as Princess Diana in Pablo Larrain’s Spencer, which Mark also reviews. Plus we have reviews of Paul Schrader’s The Card COunter, which tells the story of Oscar Isaac’s ex-military interrogator turned gambler haunted by the ghosts of his past; Chloé Zhao’s Eternals, the latest Marvel film about a race of immortal beings who lived on Earth and shaped its history and civilizations, starring Richard Madden, Gemma Chan and Angelina Jolie; Red Notice, which stars Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot; thriller Bull, about a man who mysteriously returns home after a 10 year absence to seek revenge on those who double crossed him years ago; western Old Henry, starring Tim Blake Nelson as a farmer who takes in an injured man with a satchel of cash and Tom Hanks in sci-fi drama Finch. Send us your sub 20 second instant reaction to any film attached to an email to mayo@bbc.co.uk for our feature ‘Lobby Correspondents’. Download our podcast from the Baby Sea Clowns app. We welcome your contributions: Email: mayo@bbc.co.uk Twitter: @wittertainment

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.4	Why have you tweeted a picture of the script with a lemon on it?
0:09.2	I know, there was just a lemon on the table, so I just had to make it more interesting.
0:13.1	But it looks like an art installation.
0:16.0	Also, the lemon either appears to refer to the contributor, me, or the guest,
0:26.3	which is Christian Stewart, or the films,
0:29.6	but not you. It's like, because it says at the top, it says,
0:33.5	presenter Simon Mayo, and then contributor, me, and then the rest of it.
0:37.2	And the lemon is below, so it's like, it says, presented by Simon Mayo,
0:42.0	but everything else is a lemon.
0:44.0	If only I'd have thought this through, I wouldn't have placed a biro to the right
0:50.9	and a lemon to the left.
0:52.7	Yeah.
0:53.2	I just placed them in the middle. I mean, they're just centred.
0:55.4	That's all.
0:56.2	It doesn't imply that Christian Stewart or you are a lemon.
1:02.3	Kind of does, though.
1:03.7	No, it's sort of, but it's scripted with a lemon.
1:06.4	Why don't you think you make, I'm implying you're a biro?
1:10.0	Because there's a lot of biro.
1:11.0	Okay, no, okay, because the reason for that is because, as you know,
1:14.2	people only ever hear the bad things.
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