This Week's Film Guide

This image released by Universal Pictures shows Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, left, and Emily Blunt as Kitty Oppenheimer in a scene from Oppenheimer, which is showing at the Odeon Multiplex. Universal Pictures via AP

Dome Cinema

■ Edward Scissorhands

An old inventor creates an ageless humanoid, Edward, but dies without having made the hands. Edward has scissor blades instead. He is taken in by a suburban family but, despite his good intentions, problems arise. Stars Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder and Dianne Wiest.

■ What’s Love Got to Do with It?

Romantic comedy in which a filmmaker documents the arranged marriage of her childhood friend to a bride from Pakistan.

■ Sugar and Stars

Biopic of champion pastry chef Yazid Ichemrahen. In French, with subtitles.

■ Country Cabaret

A dairy farmer sees a dazzling nightclub performance and decides to save his farm by turning his big old barn into a country cabaret. In French, with subtitles.

■ Son of the White Mare

In this 1981 Hungarian animated adventure film, the son of a divine horse sets out to avenge injustices and free three captive princesses.

Odeon Multiplex

■ Oppenheimer

Christopher Nolan wrote and directed this film based on American Prometheus, the biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, so-called “father of the atomic bomb”. Stars Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr, Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett and Casey Affleck.

■ Coco Reo Maori

Coco is the fourth Disney movie to be reimagined in te reo Māori. It is written in the dialect of Te Tairāwhiti to honour the Spanish lineage of Jose Manuel on the East Coast. Te Matatini chairman Selwyn Parata and his son Ngarimu tackled translations for the film.

■ Barbie

Barbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colourful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. But when they get a chance to go to the real world, they discover the joys and perils of living among humans.

■ Joy Ride

When Audrey’s business trip to Asia goes sideways, she enlists the aid of Lolo, her irreverent, childhood best friend; Kat, her college friend turned Chinese soap star; and Deadeye, Lolo’s eccentric cousin. Their no-holds-barred, epic experience becomes a journey of bonding, belonging, and debauchery that reveals the universal truth of what it means to know and love who you are.

■ Insidious: The Red Door

Josh Lambert heads east to drop off his son Dalton at school. However, Dalton’s college dream soon becomes a living nightmare.

■ Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One

Ethan Hunt and his IMF team set out to track down a terrifying new weapon before it falls into the wrong hands. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than his mission — not even the lives of those he cares about most.

■ Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

When a new threat emerges, Optimus Prime and the Autobots must team up with a faction of Transformers known as the Maximals to save Earth.

■ Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Indiana Jones races against time to retrieve a dial able to change the course of history.

■ Elemental

Computer-animated romantic comedy-drama produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios.

■ The Little Mermaid

New star Halle Bailey as Ariel and old favourite Melissa McCarthy as Ursula help make Rob Marshall’s remake of a Disney classic a hit.

■ Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Graffiti artist Miles Morales, who has taken over as the Spider-Man of his universe after the death of his reality’s Peter Parker, is asked by Spider-Woman to help save every universe of Spider-People from the Spot.