ALSO OUT THIS WEEK

How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World PG ★★★★★

Nine years after the original, the How To Train Your Dragon trilogy comes to a sweet but underwhelming close with The Hidden World, which sees the Viking stronghold of Berk forced into an evacuation and its leader, Hiccup (right), discovering that Toothless isn’t the only Night Fury dragon in the world. Turns out there’s a pretty female one too, though all is not what it seems.

I’ve always found the voices a tad too Americansounding, but the colourdrenched animation here is gorgeous, the courtship rituals of dragons provide silly fun and F Murray Abraham is effective as the wicked dragon-slayer, Grimmel the Grisly.

Can You Ever Forgive Me? 15A ★★★★★

It may be up for three Oscars and a similar number of Baftas, but it’s quite hard to see what the fuss is all about, with a plot that never quite grabs and both Melissa McCarthy and Richard E Grant playing notably unlikeable characters.

McCarthy is Lee Israel, a broke, cat-loving writer who, back in the New York of 1991, embarks on a new career as a literary forger, selling letters supposedly written by the likes of Noël Coward and Dorothy Parker to book dealers, aided by her unreliable friend and drinking buddy, Jack Hock, played by a particularly ebullient Grant. There is some pathos and poignancy here but the pace is unhelpfully slow.

Escape Room 15A ★★★★★

It’s barely a month since five Polish girls died in a fire in a real-life escape room, which you might think would have caused the distributors of this tedious teen-thriller about a group of young people locked in a series of deadly escape rooms to pause for thought before going ahead with its release. But apparently not.

Crucible Of The Vampire 15A ★★★★★

Spooky old country house, an organ in the hallway, pretty new visitor, strange goings on… this low-budget offering has all the hallmarks of classic British horror but is let down by its amateurish execution.