Your weekend cinema at a glance
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(4) INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE: See review on this page (6) CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE: A good-natured accountant reconnects with a former schoolmate on Facebook, who turns out to be a lethal CIA agent (Baywest, Walmer Park, Hemingways, Boardwalk) (4) ME BEFORE YOU: There’s gentle manipulation, and then there’s having your arms manacled to a freight train of weepy catharsis, which is roughly the experience awaiting viewers of Me Before You.TR (Walmer Park, Boardwalk)
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(8) FINDING DORY: What if Sebastian the Crab has been wrong all this time? “Darling, it’s better /down where it’s wetter”, he memorably crooned in Disney’s The Little Mermaid, back in 1989. But in Finding Dory, the new film from Pixar Animation Studios, the world under the sea is no bower of bliss.RC (Baywest, Bridge, Hemingways, Boardwalk, Walmer Park) (NO RATING YET) I AM WRATH: A man is out for justice after a group of corrupt police officers are unable to catch his wife’s killer. HO (Hemingways, Bridge) (8) THE NICE GUYS: Thrillers about girls who vanish into the twilit murk of Los Angeles aren’t typically multi-coloured, laugh-a-minute affairs. But the new film from Shane Black takes one of the most sinister movie genres of them all – film noir – and shakes it into side-clutching comedy. RC (Baywest, Boardwalk) (5) WARCRAFT: THE BEGINNING: This fantasy film based on the Warcraft video game series and novels set in the world of Azeroth is naff fantasy in shiny, technicolour armour. HO (Bridge, Baywest) (7) NOW YOU SEE ME 2: The Four Horsemen resurface and are forcibly recruited by a tech genius to pull off their most impossible heist yet. (Hemingways, Boardwalk, Walmer Park, Baywest) (NO RATING YET) THE CONJURING 2: THE ENFIELD POLTERGEIST: Can a semi-detached North London house evoke the same terror as a dilapidated farmhouse in Rhode Island? (Boardwalk, Walmer Park, Bridge) (6) MONEY MONSTER: If The Big Short and Margin Call left you no wiser about the murky complexities of the financial crisis, Money Monster is for you. (Walmer Park) (NO RATING YET) MRS RIGHT GUY: Too chicken for love. Gugu, the walking wounded, rejects men long before they can get too close to rock her self-imposed exile from love. (Bridge, Hemingways) (6) ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: It’s time for a little madness. Alice returns to the whimsical world of Underland and travels back in time to save the Mad Hatter. (Bridge) (6) THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE: Slingshots over the low roof of your expectations. TR (Walmer Park)
Ratings out of 10. Reviewers: RC – Robbie Collin; TR – Tim Robey; HO – Helen O’Hara