ALSO SHOWING
MIDSOMMAR (18)
★★★★★
WRITER-DIRECTOR Ari Aster's follow-up to last year's supernatural horror Hereditary, conjures terror in broad daylight in a similar manner to The Wicker Man.
Christian (Jack Reynor) is preparing to break up with clingy girlfriend Dani (Florence Pugh, both pictured above) when she suffers devastating tragedy. Christian decides to delay the inevitable and invites her to join him and pals Josh (William Jackson Harper), Mark (Will Poulter) and Pelle (Vilhelm Blomgren) on a trip to Sweden to attend a midsummer festival.
The Americans are charmed by the rituals and customs of their European hosts. But, as the sun beats down on festivities, Dani and co witness moments of shocking and horrifying madness that will test their devotion to each other.
YESTERDAY (12A)
★★★★★
SINCE Four Weddings
And A Funeral in 1994, scriptwriter Richard
Curtis has been a taste of honey with beautifully judged romantic comedies of amour fou across the class divide.
Yesterday, directed by Danny Boyle, should continue that winning streak, casting Himesh Patel, pictured, and Lily James as best friends, whose paths diverge after a nasty bout of pop culture amnesia ripples across the universe, erasing all memory of The Beatles.
I don't want to spoil the party but this is probably my least favourite Curtis script. There are a couple of gorgeous, heart-tugging scenes, but something is missing that should make me want to feverishly twist and shout from the rooftops about director Boyle's magical mystery tour.
TOY STORY 4 (U)
★★★★★
HOW do you improve on the perfection of Toy Story 3, which bade a moving farewell to Woody the cowboy, pictured, (voiced by Tom Hanks), Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) and the other denizens of Andy's childhood?
Oscar-winning computer animation studio Disney Pixar comes tantalisingly close with a belated rip-roaring fourth instalment that will have parents dabbing at their eyes with sodden handkerchiefs.
Director Josh Cooley's hare-brained rescue mission was always going to disappoint after the note perfect resolution to the third film but the script manages to preach the beauty of imperfection between breathless action set-pieces and a barrage of visual gags, which demand a second viewing.