UK FILM TOP 10

1. Kingsman: The Golden Circle (15)

Director Matthew Vaughn’s highoctane spy caper sequel opens with a digitally enhanced bang – an outlandish fight sequence inside a London taxi – and quickly accelerates into the same preposterous groove as its 2015 predecessor. The sole zinging addition is Elton John, playing a deliciously potty-mouthed exaggeration of himself.

2. It (15)

Director Andres Muschietti’s adaptation of Stephen King’s hefty tome portrays the fictional town of Derry, Maine, as a hotbed of exploitation, abuse and degradation committed by adults on the young. Menace leaches from every frame.

3. Victoria & Abdul (PG)

Set during the final five years of Queen Victoria’s turbulent reign, the picture touches upon some of the same themes as Dame Judi Dench’s earlier portrayal in Mrs Brown, albeit with more humour.

4. Goodbye Christopher Robin (PG)

In this handsomely crafted drama, battlescarred author AA Milne (Domhnall Gleeson) and his wife Daphne (Margot Robbie) treat their young son (Will Tilston) as a sales tool in the mid-1920s to promote the literary adventures of a honey-loving bear called Winnie-the-pooh.

5. Flatliners

The psychological horror directed by Niels Arden Oplev and written by Ben Ripley is a remake of a 1990 film, and stars Ellen Page, Diego Luna, Nina Dobrev, James Norton and Kiersey Clemons as five young medical students who attempt to conduct experiments that produce near- death experiences.

6. Home Again (12A)

Beautiful, rich people with adorable offspring try to convince us that being single is the end of their privileged worlds – boo hoo! – in first-time director Hallie Meyers-shyer’s romantic comedy. Perky homemaker Reese Witherspoon cheerfully chauffeurs the kids to school, cooks nutritious meals, runs a fledgling interior design business, cleans her sprawling Los Angeles residence and still finds time to look expertly coiffed and styled from the moment she wakes.

7. The Emoji Movie (U)

Computer-animated adventure set inside a boy’s mobile phone, with a city where these tiny text message icons live. Neatly summed up with one emoji: poop.

8. The Jungle Bunch (U)

A maniacal koala bear threatens the safety of other creatures. Based on a hit French TV series, director David Alaux’s jaunty computeranimated adventure follows in the paw prints of the likes of Zootropolis, Sing, The Secret Life Of Pets and Kung Fu Panda. Could this be animal magic too? Sadly not.

9. Despicable Me 3 (U)

The third chapter relies heavily on the Minions and giggles are provided by their lingo of Esperanto meets gobbledygook, plus the introduction of Gru’s twin brother.

10. Mother! (18)

Darren Aronofsky’s twisted psychological thriller’s highlight is an emotionally wrought lead performance from Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence as a young wife whose poet husband (Javier Bardem) is crippled by writer’s block.