Fancy a trip to the cinema this weekend? here's our guide to the new movies out this week 

Preview: Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie (15) Empire, Odeon, ABC

ALMOST four years after a trio of 20th anniversary special episodes were broadcast on BBC One,

Jennifer Saunders’ award-winning sitcom of barbed insults and fashionable excess saunters onto the big screen, directed by Mandie Fletcher. 

Edina Monsoon (Saunders) is in the PR doldrums. Her client list has thinned and she continues to clash with her strait-laced daughter Saffy (Julia Sawalha), who has a 13-year-old daughter called Lola (Indeyarna Donaldson-Holness). 

Thankfully, best friend Patsy Stone (Joanna Lumley) is still in the media eye and her magazine is sponsoring the lavish Huki Muki Retrospective launch party. 

Expect many cameo appearances from the celebrity world including most notably Kate Moss.

Central Intelligence (12A) Empire, Odeon ***

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UNDERSCORED with a heartfelt anti-bullying message, Central Intelligence is a surprisingly sweet and goofy mismatched buddy comedy that might lack the quick-wittedness promised by its title but has good will in abundance.

Surprisingly, Dwayne Johnson is gifted the lion’s share of the haphazard script’s one-liners and physical pratfalls.

The wrestling superstar turned hulking action hero embraces his character’s eccentricities with gusto, casting the typically hyperactive Kevin Hart as a relative straight man rather than the usual catalyst of on-screen tomfoolery.

Winning chemistry between the two leads galvanises Rawson Marshall Thurber’s picture when gags fall flat or the plot’s various bluffs and double-bluffs nudge the whole enterprise alarmingly close to preposterousness.

The boundless, puppy dog energy of the film and its eager-to-please double-act ultimately proves irresistible.

PREVIEW: Now You See Me 2 (12A) Empire, Odeon

SEEING is deceiving in the sequel to the 2013 crime caper about a quartet of illusionists known as the Four Horsemen, who pull off the ultimate heist. 

The follow-up, directed by Jon M Chu, unfolds one year later. FBI agent Dylan Rhodes (Mark Ruffalo) assigns the remaining members of the Four Horsemen - J Daniel Atlas (Jesse Eisenberg), Merritt McKinney (Woody Harrelson) and Jack Wilder (Dave Franco) - a daring new case. 

They must expose a corrupt businessman called Owen Case (Ben Lamb), who possesses software that maliciously steals personal information. 

The fearsome foursome reunite once more to use their sleight of hand and guile to infiltrate Case’s security.