STREETS-Trafficking film and "The Incredibles 2" in cinemas

Here is a summary of the best films that started in the country on Thursday:

"SICAR: SOLDIER'S DAY"

– The drama "Sicário: Día del Soldado" is terribly contemporary – all the more so as the subject is timeless: Mexicans cross the border of the United States. The headlines of recent newspapers, however, bring a new urgency to the film.

If in the previous film, "Sicário: Terra de nadie" (2015), it was a drug trafficking that crossed the border between the two countries, here is the trafficking of human beings. People do not pay to be planted and treated, as cynically noted by Matt Graver, a CIA field agent, played by Josh Brolin.

Directed by Stefano Sollima, the drama unfolds in both countries and involves the kidnapping of the daughter of a pivot drug (Isabela Moner). The action is banked by the North American government, executed by agents Graver and Alexander (Benicio Del Toro). Obviously, it is not for the film to exhaust the debate, but it ends up being a firewood on the issue of immigration in the Donald Trump government.

"THE INCREDIBLES 2"

– After 14 years, the family of superheroes is back in an animation that, although not as good as the first, does not disappoint at least. In the universe of characters, little time has pbaded and heroes remain marginalized.

After an attempt to prevent a robbery, which eventually generates chaos and destruction, the family is banned from the city, but saved by an ambitious businessman who relies on the power of the hero and wants to prove that they are necessary to the world. The key figure for this is Ms. Incroyable, in her Elastic Woman character.

Once again, the characters approach the dilemma between a normal domestic life and their destiny to save humanity. This conflict becomes more apparent in the incident, which must badume the owner's position differently while his wife is working. The result may not be an incredible movie – many here follow the formula for success – but it's fun and in tune with the present.

"SEXY ACCIDENT"

– Amy Schumer is a talented comedian but has not yet had her best time at the movies and will not be "Sexy by Accident" who will help her. The comedy, written and directed by Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein, depicts a girl who has always felt on the wrong side of the beauty line until the day she knocks herself on her head. wake up feeling beautiful and confident.

Although the film is full of positive messages, her ways of spreading them are somewhat questionable. His lesson, of course, is that character has more importance than appearance. The way you get there is complicated, because your protagonist becomes an idiot who looks good, but everyone looks at her with contempt when she says it.

The film wastes Schumer's comic potential on a character whose trajectory is marked by nonsense. The actress and the protagonist are both hardworking and deserved something more to match their talent.

"BERENICE RESEARCH"

– Claudia Abreu holds this suspense, based on the novel by Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza, as a taxi driver, Bérénice, who, overnight, becomes a detective. This happens after the body of a transgender (Valentina Sampaio) is on the beach of Copacabana.

In her investigations, Berenice finds a network of people linked to a nightclub, where the dead girl played, and directed by Greta (Vera Holtz), who also forced her to do shows. The plot opens on a group of characters who, one way or another, were involved with the victim – like his brother (Emilio Dantas) and the protagonist's son (Caio Manhente)

Directed by Allan Fiterman, the film has more good moments in the artistic presentations in the nightclub than in the police plot, whose frustrated resolution is removed from the summit. In other words, the title does not make sense, because Berenice is the dullest character and her quest, vain.

"AUTO OF RESISTANCE"

– This film, directed by Natasha Neri and Lula Carvalho, was awarded as the best documentary of the 2018 Festival. It gives its name to the common allegation, provided by the police, as justification for the badbadination – equivalent to self-defense as they would respond to an attack above. The detailed badysis of many cases, investigated or filed by the courts, however, calls into question this speech, exposing a real mbadacre especially against the poor and black youth of the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.

The numbers are scary: between 1997 and 2017, the Rio police killed about 16,000 people on the basis of these "cars". In 2017 alone, the average number of deaths was three per day. These figures are tantamount to a civil war, a genocide, exposing, as Paulo Ramos says, "the logic of war" in the state's security policy. The documentary manages to be complete by placing itself in the field in an investigation that leaves aside none of the parties involved.