to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. 50 mark, what do we have this week? we have the sequel to sicario, sicario 2: day of the soldado, sicario 2: soldado, leave no trace, the new film from debra granik. and shailene woodley lost at sea in adrift. sicario 2. where are you a fan of the original? not quite. i am surprise. emily blunt was brilliant. i do like her. she is not back this time. in this sequel, the original starred emily blunt. they are all gone. now we have a sequel in the age in which it turns out that trafficking people is more profitable than trafficking drugs, the authorities in america become alarmed to find out that they think that isis terrorists are coming

to america across the mexican border. so, josh brolin enlists benicio del toro's hit man to run a covert operation to kidnap the daughter of a cartel owner and make it look like it was one of the other cartels to start a war which will make them easier to fight. here is a clip. no rules this time. turning you loose. how loose? carlos reyes. how's that for loose? it's your chance, to get even for your family. are you going to help us start a war? with who? everyone.

it is an odd film. it plays into a bunch of very contemporary pa ranoias, the mexican border. it is the us mexico border and so topical. on the one hand, it exploits those fears and later on it undermines them. as with the first sicario, no one comes out of it well, it is all shades of grey and the operation is murky. it does not work out exactly as they expected to. as they expect it to. on the plus side, it has some pretty well done nail—biting sequences. i have to say, nothing to match the extraordinary traffic jam sequence from the first sicario. it is quite an interesting story, not one we have not seen before and later on, there is a point when having started

off being bleak and gritty, it's suddenly gets into this area of dramatic contrivance that made me go, come on! i do not think i was the only one. i really did miss the presence of emily blunt. watching the first film, you realise how much of what you are watching was mediated through the eyes of her character and it gave you a good way into the story. i think that is missing this time. the makers talked about it being a stand—alone film and i think that is the best way to appreciate it. it is a good, well made, gritty, potentially controversial, border thriller, but as a sequel to sicario, you cannot help but go it is not as good as sicario. if you look at it as a stand—alone, it is fine, it has some good moments but falls apart at the end. they should have made it a stand—alone movie. i think that would have helped. leave no trace, i have not seen, it looks gripping, fascinating, a lot of those things.

if this is not in my top ten at the end of the year, i will be stunned. it is made by debra granik. it is the story of a father and teenage daughter living off the grid, under the radar in the forests outside portland in oregon. they have lived this survivalist existence, he is a veteran with ptsd. the authorities turn up and find them and of course when the authorities find them, they take them back into civilisation and they are forced to re—enter the world. the thing that is really brilliant about this, it is a film in which it is not to do with dialogue, it is to do with action, the ways that people stand, the gestures, the looks, it is not about explaining the plot. what really happens is that as the father and daughter are brought back into the ordinary modern world, their responses to it are different. he is very against it, she starts to find some sense of kinship and it is interesting,

both the director and writer of the novel that it is based on, both cited the tempest in the background. it is about generational divides, that thing between town and country and to some extent, but it is much more about the story of the central character, played brilliantly by thomasin mckenzie discovering your own identity, discovering her identity is hers rather than as a part of a unit which has been off grid with her and her father. that is fascinating. you will love it. it is wonderful, brilliant use of music, a couple of performances of live songs, that bit in in winter's bone, you will be reminded of it. winter's bone brought us the great jennifer lawrence of course. here we have thomasin mckenzie who has made movies before but i was not aware of her.

she is fantastic. she combines the technical brilliance of the young jennifer jennifer lawrence with the openness of david bradley from kes. it is remarkable, i cannot say enough good things. your third choice this week, on the oceans. adrift, based on a true story, the young couple are played by shailene woodley and sam clafin. they had to take a boat, they set out and everything looks fine and then the weather turns very bad. here is a clip. hey! let the sheet go! let it go! now! 0k. help.

take it! screaming. help me! ifeel the same. it is hard to watch. i have seen far too much of the exerts of the film of the terrible moments. it reminds me of the sequence in white squall. the story starts after the wreck and it goes between the story

of her and their survival on the boat and flashing back to how they got there. there have been comparisons with the robert redford film, all is lost, but i thought, there is a film starring reese witherspoon called wild. at the heart of it, there is a story of a young woman finding herself whilst battling against the elements. on the surface of it, there is very little comparison, but tonally, they were quite similar. i find stories about being lost at sea are truly terrifying. it really gets under my skin. i thought shailene woodley was very good. there is a twist on it. not everyone will love it. i thought it was well done. if we can bear the shipwreck scenes.

film of the week... it is still lek and the dogs. it is based on a play which is based on a real—life story of a young child left in moscow who lived with dogs on the streets of moscow. it is a wonderful film by andrew kotting and you will have to seek this work—out but please do, he a talent that needs to be found by everyone. he is a reason to celebrate film—making. dvd this week, the shape of water. i do not know what else to say about it, but the fourth time round it looked even better. i loved it. it is pretty good! and it is just beautiful to look at. i love the design, the performances. it is quirky.

there are elements that are very beautiful. i love the film so much that i was quoted in private eye. i have hit peak critic. you can retire on that note. thank you very much. 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. that's it for this week though. thanks for watching. goodbye. good evening, for the fifth consecutive day we've had temperatures somewhere in the uk

above 30 degrees. this continues into the weekend, hot and sunny weather, small chance of a thunderstorm particularly in southern and western areas. this low pressure a cross southern and western areas. this low pressure across siberia, it will drift north for the second half of the weekend ahead of that we will draw some very, very warm and increasingly humid air in from the continent. no end in sight to our heatwave. sta rt continent. no end in sight to our heatwave. start saturday morning on relatively fresh note for many. we also start off with a fair amount of cloud which will have drifted in from the north sea overnight. it could take a while to break so if you are out and about dolby spies to see cloud overhead, but it will break, long spells of sunshine. the extent of the orange shade here on our temperature chart, a bit cooler close to these north sea coasts but for parts of the midlands, maybe east and south wales you might get

temperatures up to 28—29. as we go through saturday night it's been fresh but going to see more warmth, particularly down towards the south. tem pters particularly down towards the south. tempters might not be lower than 1617 in cardiff and london, still a bit cooler and fresher for the north, a slightly muggy day on sunday. as this area of low pressure, that cloud i showed you sta rts pressure, that cloud i showed you starts to move its way in from the south—west we have increasing likelihood of showers and thunderstorms across the south west of england and into wales. maybe fringing into the midlands and northern ireland. lots of sunshine, the continental air, the tempters getting hired down towards the south—east, 30, perhaps 31 on sunday afternoon. many places not far behind. as we look further ahead, the low pressure still churning around out of the south west but

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