online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you, 7 days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. a big thank you to my guests this evening, joe and yasmin. that's all from us and goodnight. hello, and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. what have you been watching? we have american woman starring sienna miller... animated fun with abominable... and will smith fighting

himself in gemini man. let's start with american woman. sienna miller is debra, living in rust belt pennsylvania. she is pin balling endlessly between variously useless and occasionally abusive men and looking for security and love. one night, her teenage daughter goes out and doesn't come home. she is left holding her grandson with no idea what happened. here is a clip. it's been... it's been three days since we last saw bridget. she left home around seven. she was wearing a pink

sweatshirt and white sneakers. she had her hair coloured a few days ago, so it's a little lighter now, a little more blonde. but not much. this is a mother's worst nightmare. to know that your daughter is out there somewhere and she's calling for you and you can't get to her... i'm sorry. she cries. i miss my daughter. so, on one level the film is about a missing person but it's actually, that's only one part of what it's about. the narrative jumps forward several years and we see the central character played by sienna miller further on in her life, still trying

to find a suitable partner, and people like aaron paul plays an initially charming character. what happens is we see the weight of the trauma and the grief that she has carried with her as her own character develops and changes. i think the most remarkable thing is sienna miller is really terrific, that's not a surprise because she was really good in supporting roles in foxcatcher and american sniper. this is the first time she's been able to command the centre stage and she's terrific. she plays each section of the character's life completely convincingly. the second thing is, this is directed by jake scott, who does a very good job of backing off exactly when you think the drama is going to overplay its hand. what you get is a film that is very, very convincing about a lengthy period in somebody‘s life in which something

is hanging over them. the thing it reminded me of slightly is things like atom egoyan‘s the sweet hereafter or exotica. atom egoyan is very good at making films that exist in the aftermath of something. i definitely got that feeling from this. is it upsetting? her central character is indomitable and has a vibrant spirit. yes, she is shouldering a huge burden, but the film is about, 0k, this is the situation and life has to move on. you know it will keep returning to this central motif about this absence and what happened and how it happened, but the film is actually about her. when they were shooting it it was originally called burning woman. i'm not sure american woman is the right title. it is a film that is absolutely about the way a character develops over a lengthy period of time, and you believe every single frame of that performance. not least because it's very physical. it's not to do with the character saying, i think this, ifeel this,

it's to do with the way they stand, the way she holds herself and the tiny glances. and it has a very good supporting cast. i was immersed in it, i believed in the world. the problem is the trailers are necessarily selling it as a missing person thriller, and that is one element but it's not the element. it's about her dealing with this but life moving on at the same time. it sounds more interesting than the trailer allows. in their defence, it's a very hard film to trail because it's a hard film to explain. if you say it's a story of somebody growing over a long period of time, that wouldn't bring the audience in. an animation for your second choice. abominable is an occasionally thrilling, largely blandly charming story. a young girl befriends a yeti creature who is escaping from a wealthy eccentric voiced by eddie izzard, sounding like eddie izzard brilliantly.

her and herfriends agree to take the yeti to the highest point on earth. the creature has magical powers that enables it to turn landscape into something completely different. there is a sequence which we are seeing now in which this boat travels through a flowery field which then turns into a giant wave, there is a lovely sequence in which they climb up on a giant buddha statue. there are individual moments that made me think, that's beautiful and breathtaking. i don't think it's massively original. people have compared it to how to train your dragon. i always think about the bigfoot movie missing link, which had a more sturdy feeling to me. i think it will do well with a fairly undemanding audience. there are certain moments in which i thought, that's beautiful, they are using the technology really well. it has some great moments. gemini man, i want it to be really good because it is ang lee, who is so interesting and does such great work.

no. will smith goes head—to—head with his digitally conjured younger self. he is a retiring assassin who finds he can't retire because he is being pursued by a young hit man, who weirdly seems to know his every move. it's almost as if he is being followed by his younger self. here is a clip. stop right there! who are you? i don't want to shoot you! fine. don't shoot me. mind if i shoot you? did i show you a picture of me? yeah, you look old.

you take one step closer, you're going to leave me no choice. gunshots. there's some decently executed action sequences. this project began in the late ‘90s when it was first thought up and then they thought, we don't have the technology to do this. it turns out now they do, but it's like thejeff goldblum thing, you're so eager to see whether you could, you didn't stop to think whether you should. fundamentally, one big problem is i saw it in high frame rate 3d, which is this kind of high frame rate format which makes you think you're watching something which looks like behind—the—scenes footage. it's so real it looks like it's not a movie,

which is really bizarre. secondly, it's kind of distracting because even when you see what they've done with the cgi, there is a computer—generated character, it's impossible not to sit there thinking, that's technologically quite interesting. my biggest problem is this. while you've got mary elizabeth winstead injecting a much—needed human note, ang lee for me is a storyteller. tell stories, stop worrying about the technology and whether or not we can push back 60 frames a second, just do the thing you did before, which was be a great storyteller. i have no problem with technology, but technology for its own sake feels like the tail wagging the dog. it is true that most of the ideas i have seen before, it is a sub—blade runner idea about body and soul and most of the time you're sitting there thinking, just tell me a story like you used to. i'm sure he'll listen to you. yes, i've got him on speed dial.

the farewell is a lovely story. have you seen it? yes. isn't itjust the most brilliant thing? i did love it. i mean, i really, really loved... is it awkwafina? by the end was she just slightly too much stroppy teenager. she was meant to be 31 in the film and was behaving like a stroppy 17—year—old, but overall i really liked it. i thought it was one of the most honest depictions of family relationships, the way there are secrets and lies, very, very mike leigh. i thought it was really touching and really funny and really moving, and i knew nothing about it when i went to see it other than the title, which i have to say is not... i love the thing "based on an actual lie", which is a great tag line. now, a dvd, a musical.

hitsville: the making of motown, which is a documentary about the making of motown. it's very, very authorised. it's not warts and all, but it's worth it for the interviews, not least because you get them standing by a piano mis—remembering their own history. at one point he said, so—and—so recorded a song, the other one said, i bet you 100 bucks it was the other guy. they ring someone up. that kind of stuff was really wonderful, and i laughed more watching their interviews than i have watching many of this year's so—called comedies. enjoy your cinema—going. goodbye. good evening. some of us all the rain through the day on saturday, particularly in the south. and many of us will see more in the rain —— way of rain on sunday. our unsettled

speu way of rain on sunday. our unsettled spell is continuing. this was the picture of the sunset earlier on saturday evening. big showers a cloud around in lancashire. most of the showers in the north and north—west are now fading away. low pressure not far away. we have a weather front through the rest of the night sitting across southern parts and pushing slowly further north later on in the night. that rain already sitting across much of southern england and south wales. it will be pushing northwards across the rest of england and wales over the rest of england and wales over the next few hours. it is looking dry for much of northern ireland and scotland. a few showers in the far north—west. under the clearest guides are likely to see some mist and fog patches. perhapsjust guides are likely to see some mist and fog patches. perhaps just a touch of frost across rural parts of eastern scotland. temperature is getting close to freezing. further south we are in double figures where you have the band of rain from the word go. this is our sunday is looking. a fairly messy bitjob with weather fronts dotted around. low pressure in charge. this weather front will be pushing northwards and eastward through the course of the day. initially a bit of dry weather for the far south—east of england, east anglia for the time. the next

bus will move in late in the morning. this area of rammell move northwards across england and wales at times pushing into eastern parts of northern ireland in southern and eastern scotland. most of us the wind is not much of a feature but towards the south those winds will be picking up during the day stop so quite easy for southern england and parts of wales as well. sunshine returning in the afternoon after a 5°99y returning in the afternoon after a soggy picture over parts —— the past few days. 11— 60 degrees. low pressure still in charge as we start the new working week. setting out was the worst. we also have this waving weather front down was the south—east. there is some uncertainty about the detail on that. we are likely to see a spell of heavy, potentially thundery rain down towards the south—east of england. also rain for northern ireland, fringing into parts of wales and the south—west of england. for the rest of the uk, north wales, northern england, much of scotland, not a bad day with some sunshine around. temperature is fairly typical of year. 12— 60 degrees. it

does look like we stick with that u nsettled does look like we stick with that unsettled weather through the course of the week. low pressure bring him on on the course —— bring in more rain. temperatures around about the mid—teens for most of us. and the autumnal changeable theme to the weather continues right through the rest of the week.

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