VILLAGE CINEMAS

Good Boys (MA15+) This is a hard movie to assess for one paradoxical reason. In some eyes, it may completely cancel its need to exist, let alone all chance of box-office success. While Good Boys nails the tween-age trials and tribulations of life as a 12-year-old, no 12-yearold will be able to see it in cinemas (at least those which play hardball on titles with an MA15+ rating). However, there does remain a sizeable alternative target audience out there for Good Boys. Anyone who used to be 12. (Glenorchy, Hobart)

It Chapter Two (MA15+) Clownophobia takes a back seat to closure in this sequel. The spectacular scares are still there but in the gaps between, the fear factor drops from wild to mild. Yet all is forgiven once It Chapter Two tightens the screws. (Hobart, Glenorchy)

Ride Like a Girl (PG) It was the first Tuesday in November of 2015. Halfway down the famed Flemington Racecourse straight, held up in a ruck of horses, jockey Michelle Payne saw a gap. In seconds, history was made. Payne sent her 100/1 roughie Prince of Penzance through the opening, and past the field. Payne had become the first woman jockey to win the Melbourne Cup. (Eastlands, Glenorchy, Hobart, Launceston)

Gemini Man (M) This high-concept, lowimpact dud has been crouched in the starting blocks since the mid-1990s. It rarely breaks out of a reluctant jog as we wait for a 51-year-old Will Smith to get in a feeble fight to the death with a 25-year-old Will Smith. The older Smith is a recently retired international super-assassin who has peeved his handlers for leaving the gig on conscientious grounds. The younger Smith is a genetic clone sent by those handlers to destroy his dissenting doppelganger. (Eastlands, Glenorchy, Hobart, Launceston)