Movies now playing in cinemas

Sequel to the 2016 Disney animated adventure hit. After receiving an unexpected call from her wayfinding ancestors, Moana must journey to the far seas of Oceania and into dangerous, long-lost waters for an adventure.

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo star in this adaptation of the massive Broadway musical, a prequel to cinema classic The Wizard of Oz. Nominated for 10 Academy Awards including Best Picture.

Made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective, this Oscar-winning documentary shows the destruction of the West Bank’s Masafer Yatta by Israeli authorities and the unlikely friendship that blossoms between Palestinian activist Basel Adra and Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham.

Feature-length documentary celebrating Sir Miles Warren and Maurice Mahoney’s hugely influential architectural partnership.

As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war’s atrocities.

Halle Bailey, one half of Grammy-nominated duo Chloe x Halle, plays iconic mermaid Ariel in this Disney adaptation of the classic fish-out-of-water story.

After a tragedy, a young trans activist returns to the hometown he fled years ago to rediscover himself in this Aotearoa dramatic feature from director Max Currie (Everything We Loved) and writer Cole Meyers.

Naomi Watts is a paralysed wife and mother who, along with her photographer husband (Andrew Lincoln, TV's The Walking Dead), finds solace in rescuing and raising a magpie chick in this true story drama co-produced by Watts.

New Zealand documentary on the culling of deer in the Southern Alps using helicopters in the 1960s - a time when they were becoming enviromental pests.

New Zealand independent drama following a young Māori man who moves to the country to rebuild his life after facing prejudices around his sexual orientation.

Documentary biopic following Flavio Villani, the Italy-born Auckland concert pianist who returns to his homeland for a nervous concert debut performing Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2.

Elton John's Billy Elliot musical – based on Stephen Daldry's 2000 film – beamed into cinemas, shot live in HD at Victoria Palace Theatre in London's West End.

Jake Gyllenhaal and the director of Prisoners reteam for this psychological thriller about a man who is startled to see another man in a movie who looks exactly like him – and seeks out to find the doppelganger.

Produced by Steven Spielberg and directed by Richard Donner (Superman, Lethal Weapon), this classic from 1985 follows a young gang of kids after One-Eyed Willy's hidden treasure...

Michael Cera is Scott Pilgrim, a young slacker and bassist for a rubbish garage band called Sex Bob-omb. He's in love with the rollerblading Ramona Flowers...

Kieslowski’s first film after the fall of the communist state tells the story of Weronika...

After the pleasant, heart-warming diversion that was 1999's The Straight Story, David Lynch, weaver of the alluring nightmare, unveiled his most disconcerting film yet in 2001...

The third film from Quentin Tarantino, based on the crime novel Rum Punchby Leonard Elmore...

Liv Tyler leads this mid-90s comedy following the employees of an independent music store who learn about each other as they try anything to stop the store being absorbed by a large chain.

Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy are two 20-something year olds who meet and fall in love on a train through Europe, in this romance from director Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused). Winner of the Silver Bear (Best Director) at Berlin Film Festival 1995.

In this feature-length film combining footage from classic Warner Brothers cartoon shorts with newly animated bridging sequences, Daffy Duck, after having induced laughter in an ailing millionaire and forestalled the millionaire's death for a time, is the beneficiary for the deceased millionaire's assets...

New arrival in California, Michael, quickly falls in with the town's bad kids – a bike-riding, Jim Morrison-worshipping gang of blood-sucking vampires.