VILLAGE CINEMAS

Pet Sematary (MA15+) This excellent contemporary shocker is very loosely based on the book by Stephen King. A city family has moved up-country to a spread abutting two problematic features peculiar to the region. One is a narrow road that seems to act as a Grand Prix circuit for speeding super tankers. The other? Just your average, everyday ancient animal burial ground. Pet Sematary effortlessly induces fear, pokes fun and scars the memory. (Glenorchy, Hobart, Launceston)

Us (MA15+) See review above. (Glenorchy, Hobart, Launceston)

Captain Marvel (M) See review above. (Eastlands, Hobart, Launceston)

Shazam! (M) Though a wilfully silly superhero movie, Shazam! leaves just as much of a lasting mark as its more serious counterparts. Sure, it does run a tad long if you have a bus to catch at 132 minutes, yet it never runs out of gas. In fact, somehow, Shazam! leaves you wanting more. (Eastlands, Glenorchy, Hobart, Launceston)

Dumbo (PG) See review above. (Eastlands, Glenorchy, Hobart, Launceston)

The Curse of the Weeping Woman (M) A mid-strength horror movie, most of the good work here is handled by a sinister spectre infamous in Mexican folklore as a one-size-fitsall boogeywoman. Known as La Llorona (played by Marisol Ramirez), this kooky spook gets around in a wedding dress and is always on the prowl for another kid to drown. Centuries ago, she gave her own children a deadly dunk to teach her cheating husband a lesson. Now La Llorona is in 1973 Los Angeles, where she has designs on the offspring of a single-mum social worker named Anna (Linda Cardellini). (Eastlands, Glenorchy, Launceston)

Five Feet Apart (M) The hook to this middling teen drama is that its young romantic protagonists are living with the same, possibly terminal condition. They both just might die. And you? You just might cry. Yes, Five Feet

Apart wants its audience weeping ASAP, and will stop at nothing to get eyeballs leaking. (Eastlands, Glenorchy, Hobart, Launceston)

Little (PG) In this so-so body-swap comedy, the standout is the performance from teenager Marsai Martin. She plays Jordan, the junior incarnation of a 38-year-old high-powered corporate executive (Regina Hall) who has been banished back inside the body of her 13-year-old self — largely for being such an unpleasant human being. (Hobart)

Hellboy (R18+) This is a two-bit, one-note, zero-idea reboot of the Hellboy franchise. David Harbour (a star of the Netflix series Stranger

Things) takes the reins of the title character from Ron Perlman, and he does a fair job of hitting the comic beats that endear us to Hellboy when we should be repulsed. However, the on-song performance is wasted on a tuneless drone of a movie. (Glenorchy, Hobart, Launceston)