Five things for you to watch this weekend

LUPIN PART 2 — NETFLIX Omar Sy and his charming gang of rogues return for the breezy, stylish, glamorous adventures of master trickster Lupin as he sets out to take revenge on his nemesis and get the justice he has spent a lifetime seeking. It’s all silly but enjoyable fun, and there are pleasurable twists and turns in a show easy to accept on its own unadulterated, rollicking, high-jinks terms.

CLARKSON’S FARM — AMAZON PRIME VIDEO

The good people at Amazon thought it would be a great idea to let Jeremy Clarkson loose on the British countryside as part of his multimillion-dollar deal with the studio. It turns out this was a very bad idea indeed. Not only for farmers, who quickly grow tired with the British grump’s incredulous questioning of basic aspects of agricultural production and general contempt for their livelihood, but also for audiences. Even diehard fans will tire of his bumbling around on a tractor with all the charm of an outbreak of mad cow disease.

TRAGIC JUNGLE — NETFLIX

Mexican director Yulene Olaizola’s fourth feature is a slowly unfolding and terrifying fable that packs plenty into its simple story set deep in the jungle along the banks of the Hondo River on the border between Mexico and Belize. After a young woman escapes her arranged marriage to a colonial plantation owner in British Honduras in the 1920s, she finds herself the hostage of a group of lustful and paranoid chicle tappers in Mexico. As the jungle works its hypnotic spell, things become uncanny and the boundaries between man and nature collapse with unnerving portent.

AWAKE — NETFLIX

The pandemic has sent many viewers trawling through the already extensive archive of postapocalyptic films. In this one, an inexplicable global crisis leads to a worldwide electronic failure that plunges humanity into a fatal battle with insomnia. That’s until a woman discovers her child may have the ability to help the world finally get to sleep again if she can bring herself to make the sacrifice fate demands. A potentially interesting premise is wasted in a film that will have you yawning long before its interminable 100 minutes reach its dull and predictable conclusion.

BACK IN THE USSR: SERGEI LOZNITSA’S ARCHIVAL DOCUMENTARIES MUBI.COM

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Mubi presents an extensive selection of the masterful archive documentaries of Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa. Using the former evil empire’s own propaganda machine, Loznitsa reconstructs and recontextualises events from the USSR’s past that succeed in setting the historical record straight while also providing reconsideration of it in the light of present-day realities.