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CONOR MCGREGOR: NOTORIOUS (M) This flashy sports doco gets you up close and impersonal with mixed martial arts superstar Conor McGregor. The controversial Irish fighter’s improbable rise from lowly plumber’s apprentice to high-flying UFC champ is definitely a story worth telling, and when the filmmakers stick to the key facts and crucial fights, it makes for riveting viewing. However, an unseemly proportion of running time is given over to feeding McGregor’s monstrous ego. THE SNOWMAN (MA15+) What we have here is the Emoji Movie of serialkiller thrillers. A deeply uninvolving tale set at the height of winter in Norway, where the wizard of Oslo’s Homicide Unit is vodka-sodden Harry Hole (Michael Fassbender). Detective Hole has had a gutful of cracking uncrackable murder cases. However, when a clue-free cavalcade of butchered bodies begin surfacing around town, all that drinking to forget must stop. Support characters routinely appear to lure the story (adapted from a novel by crime writer Jo Nesbo) down one dead-end after another. GEOSTORM (M) A D-grade disaster movie where the world’s weather has turned suspiciously malicious. Our only hope rests with a bare-knuckled meteorologist, played by Gerard Butler. Gezza must zoom up to the International Space Station to shake his fists and throw some spanners at a ring of weather-controlling satellites that have gone rogue. Geostorm might still have worked had it gone the Sharknado route, and openly acknowledged its badness. But no, Geostorm does not give any sign it is interested in being fun for anyone. FIREWORKS (PG) Fireworks intriguingly fuses a gentle teen romance with plotting that would not be out of place in Groundhog Day. Norimuchi (voiced by Misaki Suda) is a typical enough Japanese high school boy. You wouldn’t quite call him emotionally astute, but he is making steady progress by the time he develops a crush on pretty classmate Nazuna (Suzu Hirose). The film takes a sharp turn away from a predictable opening act when Nazuna learns she will have to change schools to accommodate the whims of her much-married mum.