Spider-Man: Homecoming is the big one this weekend, but there's plenty more to choose from if you are not a fan of the webbed wonder.
Spider-Man: Homecoming ****
Homecoming is the sixth Spider-Man adventure - Holland's spin on the Marvel icon following on from Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield's - in 15 years, but this portrait of the Avenger as a freshman feels like it could be the first. The suit is a great fit - for nerds and newcomers alike.
Picking up after Peter Parker/Spider-Man's show-stealing cameo in Captain America: Civil War, Homecoming finds the 15-year-old watching the clock in high school and waiting for a call from the Avengers to swing back into action. In between lessons on linear acceleration and Niels Bohr, he's been told by Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr) to build up his superhero smarts "friendly neighbourhood" style. But Peter's desire to impress his mouthy mentor is hard to keep in check, and it's not longer before he's... Read our full review here
Sanctuary ****
Sanctuary balances humour and seriousness, as it follows a group of adults with intellectual disabilities, who break free from an unusually lax supervisor on a pre-Christmas Galway outing.
Larry (Kieran Coppinger) who has Down syndrome, has designs on Sophie (Charlene Kelly) who has severe epilepsy. The eager young man saves up sufficient money in his piggy-box to pay for a room at a swish hotel so the two can be intimate, although in real life such intimacies can run foul of the law in this country.
Larry passes the money on to Tom (Robert Doherty) the hard-pressed but unusually lenient care worker who obliges in the business of sourcing... Read our full review here
Still showing
Despicable Me 3 ***
Gru and his minions are back and while the dark magic of the first film isn't matched, there is still fuel in the tank and enough joyful mayhem to keep you entertained.
This time around Gru (Carell) finds himself up against a new villain, Balthazar Bratt (Parker), a washed up 80s TV icon set on taking over the world one dance fight at a time.
Bratt is everything you want from a Despicable Me villain and he steals each scene he's in with his killer soundtrack and... Read our full review here
We need your consent to load this rte-player contentWe use rte-player to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. Please review their details and accept them to load the content.Manage Preferences
Baby Driver ****
In the time-honoured race to find the coolest film of the summer, there's really only one movie in the fast lane right now - this tyre-shredding, music-blaring treat.
A souped-up fun machine of heists, first love and action-comedy smarts, Baby Driver sees Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz director Edgar Wright filling his tank with gas from the genre classics (The Driver, The Blues Brothers) and then speeding off with the soundtrack cranked all the way up to unforgettable. You should be riding shotgun, banging on the roof.
It's the simplest of stories: a fast getaway wunderkind (Ansel Elgort) gears up to put some serious distance between himself and the in-it-for-life lags (Kevin Spacey, Jamie Foxx, Eiza González, Jon Hamm), he works with, falling for a waitress (Lily James) along the way. But there's always one more score and when it comes to crime... Read our full review here.
We need your consent to load this rte-player contentWe use rte-player to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. Please review their details and accept them to load the content.Manage Preferences
Halal Daddy ****
A slight plot doesn't hinder Conor McDermottroe's feelgood culture clash comedy which delivers heart and sincerity in spades.
Halal Daddy follows the exploits of Raghdan Aziz (Nikesh Patel), a young British-Indian Muslim man who has beaten a hasty retreat from an arranged marriage in Bradford in favour of an easy life in Sligo.
He's moved in with his laid-back uncle Jamal (Paul Tylak) and straight-talking aunt Doreen (Deirdre O'Kane), and apart from running a few odd-jobs for his uncle, spends his days palling around with his perpetually stoned besties Derek and Neville (Stephen Cromwell, Jerry Iwu) and amusingly no-nonsense girlfriend Maeve (Sarah Bolger). Full review here
We need your consent to load this rte-player contentWe use rte-player to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. Please review their details and accept them to load the content.Manage Preferences
