Cineworld Chichester

• 1992
• US
• 1h 31min
• U

• Directed by: Ron Clements, John Musker
• Written by: Ron Clements, John Musker, Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio
• Cast: Scott Weinger, Jonathan Freeman, Robin Williams, Linda Larkin, Frank Welker, Gilbert Gottfried, Douglas Seale

Streetwise thief Aladdin woos Princess Jasmine with the help of the Genie of the Lamp and hindrance of the evil Jafar.

• 80%
• 86%
• 94%

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• 2019
• US
• 3h 1min
• 12A

• Directed by: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
• Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Don Cheadle, Tom Holland, Chadwick Boseman, Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Letitia Wright, Dave Bautista, Zoe Saldana

Five years after Thanos’s victory, the Avengers are in despair until Ant-Man (Rudd) kicks the story back into action. The final film in the saga verges on fanservice, but there’s intelligent character development, everyone (except Johansson) is given enough to do, and some arcs have a truly poignant sense of closure. Playful, inventive and highly entertaining.

• 88%
• 78%

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• 2019

Double bill live from Moscow.

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• 2019
• English
• 1h 56min
• 12A

• Directed by: Roxann Dawson
• Cast: Chrissy Metz, Topher Grace, Josh Lucas

A mother prays for her son to come back from the brink of death after he drowns in a lake.

• 58%
• 47%

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• 2019
• US
• 1h 33min
• 15

• Directed by: Michael Chaves
• Cast: Linda Cardellini, Raymond Cruz, Marisol Ramirez

Anna (Cardellini) is a child protection case worker raising two kids while struggling with widowhood; then a curse is placed on her. The sixth entry in the Conjuring Universe fails to summon enough unease, culminating in a tension-free finale that’s too tongue-in-cheek. Disappointing.

• 57%
• 41%

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• 2019
• US
• 1h 48min
• PG

• Directed by: Gail Mancuso
• Cast: Dennis Quaid, Betty Gilpin, Jake Manley

Bailey (Gad) and Ethan (Quaid) are back with another tale of canine reincarnation. Mancuso seasons the teary moments with some warm, fuzzy humour and it’s unashamedly sentimental, but it’s not meant to be subtle and has old-fashioned charm to spare.

• 69%
• 43%

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• 2019
• US
• 1h 34min
• 12A

• Directed by: Chris Addison
• Cast: Anne Hathaway, Rebel Wilson, Alex Sharp, Dean Norris

Josephine (Hathaway) is a British con artist who hunts for prey in the French Riviera, where she meets Australian grifter Penny (Wilson). This remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is smug, poorly drawn and full of jokes about Wilson’s character’s supposed unattractiveness. Wilson and Hathaway do their best, but it’s not nearly funny enough.

• 51%
• 36%

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• 2019
• US
• 2h 10min
• 15

• Directed by: Chad Stahelski
• Cast: Keanu Reeves, Halle Berry, Laurence Fishburne, Mark Dacascos, Asia Kate Dillon, Lance Reddick, Saïd Taghmaoui, Jerome Flynn, Jason Mantzoukas, Tobias Segal, Boban Marjanović, Anjelica Huston, Ian McShane

John Wick (Reeves) is a global exile with a $14m bounty on his head, and is forced to ask snarly assassin Sofia (Berry) for the help she owes him. The third instalment of this action franchise is the best, with spectacular fight sequences, numerous genius details and excellent performances. Violent, hilarious, surprising and cool.

• 83%
• 73%

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• 2019
• US
• 2h 5min
• 15

• Directed by: Jonathan Levine
• Cast: Charlize Theron, Seth Rogen, June Diane Raphael

Charlotte Field (Theron) is US Secretary of State and soon-to-be presidential candidate, Fled Flarsky (Rogen) is a journalist who she used to babysit; romance ensues. The gags are great and Raphael is hilarious as Charlotte’s chief of staff; the romance is less compelling, but it’s nice to see a hero happy to support a more powerful female partner.

• 72%
• 67%

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• 2018
• Germany/Luxembourg
• 1h 26min
• U

• Directed by: Christoph Lauenstein, Wolfgang Lauenstein
• Cast: Callum Maloney, Dermot Magennis, Ian Coppinger

Luis (Maloney) is an 11-year-old boy obsessed with aliens, who gets visited by some shape-changing extra-terrestrial blobs. It has an attractive sheen and likeable characters, but the tone is uncertain and it’s too derivative and unsure of itself to win many admirers.

• 61%
• 46%

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• UK
• 2h
• PG

• Directed by: Ross MacGibbon
• Cast: Richard Winsor, Dominic North, Nina Goldman

Matthew Bourne's contemporary all-male reinterpretation of the classic ballet.

• 76%

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• 2019
• USA
• 44min
• U

• Directed by: Charles E. Bastien
• Cast: Devan Cohen, Drew Davis, Samuel Faraci

A meteor lands in Adventure Bay and gives the pups superpowers, but also gives superpowers to nasty Harold of neighbouring Foggy Bottom. Basically a 70-minute extended episode of the series, enjoyably innocuous and easy to follow, although parents won’t be pleased when the toy requests come in after the end credits roll.

• 72%

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• 2019
• Japan/US
• 1h 44min
• PG

• Directed by: Rob Letterman
• Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Justice Smith, Kathryn Newton, Suki Waterhouse, Omar Chaparro, Chris Geere, Ken Watanabe, Bill Nighy

Tim (Smith) is a former Pokémon trainer who teams up with Pikachu (voiced by Reynolds) to solve a mysterious car accident which leaves his detective father presumed dead. Reynolds’ voice skills are incredible, you don’t need to know about the franchise to get what’s going on and it’s a quirky and lovingly crafted surreal comedy thriller.

• 70%
• 53%

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• 2018
• UK
• 1h 50min

• Directed by: Trevor Nunn
• Cast: Judy Dench, Sophie Cookson, Tom Hughes

Joan (Cookson when young, Dench later on) arrives at Cambridge in 1938 and is beguiled by radical politics into becoming a Soviet spy. Nunn’s first movie in over 20 years is a plodding, pedestrian affair, and while Dench captures her befuddlement and steely resolve, it fails to find the drama in a story inspired by intriguing real life events.

• 63%
• 45%

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• 2019
• UK / US
• 2h 1min

• Directed by: Dexter Fletcher
• Cast: Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell, Richard Madden, Bryce Dallas Howard

A biopic of the Rocketman himself, Elton John.

• 78%
• 69%

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• 2019
• USA / Japan / France

• Directed by: Chris Renaud, Jonathan del Val
• Cast: Patton Oswalt, Eric Stonestreet, Kevin Hart

A sequel to the 2016 film.

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• 2018
• US
• 1h 36min
• U

• Directed by: Karey Kirkpatrick, Jason Reisig
• Cast: Channing Tatum, James Corden, Zendaya, Common, LeBron James, Danny DeVito, Gina Rodriguez, Yara Shahidi, Ely Henry, Jimmy Tatro

Migo (Tatum) is a bigfoot who lives in an isolated community of his fellow creatures, who have heard rumours of the mythical ‘smallfoots’—humans. The songs are fun and drive the story forward, and child-pleasing slapstick is ably mixed with a thoughtful consideration of how a community can deal with challenges to its basic assumptions.

• 67%
• 60%

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• 2019
• US
• 1h 52min
• 12A

• Directed by: Dome Karukoski
• Cast: Lily Collins, Nicholas Hoult, Genevieve O'Reilly

Young J.R.R. Tolkien (Gilby, then Hoult) romances Edith Bratt (Keene, then Collins), forms friendships and then fights in the trenches of WWI. Hoult is charismatic as the lead and Collins is charming as Edith, and it’s a convincing enough portrait, but it’s a bit too cosy and traditional, especially the family-friendly combat sequences.

• 70%
• 48%

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