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he interviewed his mother recently, he doesn't think he can win, he wants to regain his health first. on the express, i can't win, i'm going to pull out, but i will come back. express, i can't win, i'm going to pullout, but i will come back. he will. if this is your life, what else has any meaning if you're not playing? i wonder what these people do in their40s playing? i wonder what these people do in their 40s and 50s, coaching can never feel exactly like being out there on that centre court with the crowd willing you on, it must be the crowd willing you on, it must be the most phenomenal feeling. we will miss murray. lots of people well, all those people queueing up waiting for the competition to get started. that's it for the papers tonight. my thanks to the former fleet street editor, eve pollard and anne ashworth from the times. next it is the film review with jane hill. hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news.
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to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. so, mark, what do we have this week? we have the sequel to sicario, sicario 2: soldado, leave no trace, the new film from debra granik. and shailene woodley lost at sea in adrift. sicario 2. were you a fan of the original? not quite. i am surprised. 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.
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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 into america across the mexican border. so, josh brolin basically enlists benicio del toro's lawyer turned 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.
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are you going to help us start a war? with who? everyone. it is an odd film. on one hand, it plays into a bunch of very contemporary paranoias, 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 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.
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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, "oh, come on!" i do not think i was the only one to do that. 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 have talked about this as being a stand—alone film and i think that is the best way to appreciate it. a it is a good, well made, gritty, potentially controversial, border thriller, but as a sequel to sicario, you cannot help but go yeah, but it is not as good as sicario. if you look at it as a stand—alone, it is fine, it has some good moments
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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, but 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 completely 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 kind of survivalist existence, he is a veteran with some 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 film, firstly, 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. but what really happens is that
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as the father and daughter are brought back into the ordinary modern world, their responses to it are different. he is very, very against it, she starts to find some sense of kinship and it is interesting, both the director and the writer of the novel that it is based on have 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 absolutely brilliantly by thomasin mckenzie discovering your own identity, discovering that 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 isjust wonderful, brilliant use of music, a couple of performances of live songs, reminding us of that bit
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in winter's bone, you will be reminded of it. you know things will go very bad. 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 a young 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 have to take a boat from a to b, they set out and everything looks fine and then the weather turns very bad. here is a clip. hey!
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let the sheet go! what? let the sheet 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 excerpts of the film
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of the actual terrible moments. that reminds me of the sequence in ridley scott's white squall. the story starts after the wreck and then it goes between the story of her and his survival on the boat and then flashing back to how they got there. there have been comparisons with the robert redford film, all is lost, however, i thought, there is a film starring reese witherspoon called wild. i loved wild! if you loved that, you'll love this. at the heart of it, there is a story of a young woman finding herself whilst battling against the elements. one is on land, one is on sea. on the surface of it, there is very little comparison, but tonally, i thought they were quite similar. i do find stories about being lost at sea utterly terrifying. it really gets under my skin. i thought shailene woodley was very good. there is a twist in it.
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not everyone will love it. but i thought it was well done. if you liked wild, you'll like this. 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 is a talent that needs to be found by everyone. he is a reason to celebrate film—making in this country. 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.
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i just loved it. it is pretty good! and it is just beautiful to look at. i loved the design, the performances. it's quirky. but 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. mark, you can retire on that note. thank you very much. come back next week. a quick reminder before we go that you'll find more film news and reviews from across the bbc online at bbc.co.uk/markkermode. and you can find all our previous programmes on the bbc iplayer. that's it for this week, though. thanks for watching. goodbye.
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.just for a . just for a change, we .just for a change, we had a sunny skies across parts of the uk today. heat was our and why do. a bit more cloud and humidity across the south and temperatures got up to 32 degrees in hampshire. showers, as you can see from that picture, not far away. we have got the swirl of cloud, some storms around the bay and a few of those drifting into the south—west of the uk earlier today. especially this morning as the shower was moved further north and inland. over the last few hours it has generally dried up. those of the weather action will be across the other side of the english channel across northern france. the easterly breeze blowing any remaining showers to the west. dry, clear, this cloud is drifting across scotland, behind it is chilly air, a very multifuel
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across southern parts of england and wales. breaches a few degrees above 20 or so. at the showers looked like they were going to be close to the south coast for a while, but now models reduce them further to the south and across the other side of the english channel. dry conditions, more sunshine more widely for england and wales and the step which is really getting a boost. to the north of that cloud across south—east of scotland, fresh air, the bridges in the low 20s in england and wales, the high 20s, 31, maybe 32 degrees across south—east wales and the midlands. high pressure is in charge over the weekend, not a dominant area of high pressure by any means, keeping most of the showers away over towards northern parts of france. still the potential for one northern parts of france. still the potentialfor one or northern parts of france. still the potential for one or two to get close to the channel islands and the far south—west, but on the whole, a lot of dry weather, sunny skies as well and really heating up. further
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north, bursting bridges rising across scotland but all this horse —— just towards the southern parts of england and wales and the midlands. the hottest weather, the more humid weather is probablyjust across the other side of the channel, this is where we will find most of the storms as well. few, if any showers towards the south—west and again, lots of sunshine and cloudy that north sea coast, some patch of fairweather cloud developing through the day. to bridges to 60 degrees celsius for the central belt of scotland. —— temperatures. welcome to newsday on bbc. i'm sharanjit leyl, in singapore. the headlines: polls close in mexico's elections, with expectations the country could elect its first left—wing president in decades. penalty drama at the world cup — russia knocks out former champions spain, then croatia crushes denmark's dream of progressing
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to the quarterfinals. i'm babita sharma, in london. also in the programme: divers explore deeper into a thai cave in the hope of finding 12 boys and their football coach who've been missing for more than a week. a huge manhunt is under way in france, after a notorious gangster escapes jail for the second time — this time using a helicopter.

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