Declan Burke

★★★★☆ Dustin Hoffman as Harry Horowitz and Leo Woodall as Niki White These days it’s all about transferable skills. Tuner (15A) stars Leo Woodall as Niki White, once a promising concert pianist but now suffering from hyperacusis — hearing so sensitive it makes loud sounds painful — and just about scraping a living as a piano tuner under the tutelage of Harry Horowitz (Dustin Hoffman), who is something of a father figure to Niki.

★★★★☆ Keith McErlean as Kyle, Peter McDonald as Sandy, Paul Rudd as Rick, Rory Keenan as Binzer and Paul Reid as Bernard in 'Power Ballad'. Picture: Lionsgate/David Cleary. From Once (2006) to Begin Again (2013), Sing Street (2016) to Flora and Son (2023), John Carney has been exploring the interrelation of music and film for two decades.

★★★★☆ The meet-cute is an indispensable element of romantic comedy, so Finding Emily (12A) wastes no time in getting down to brass tacks, opening with sound engineer Owen (Spike Fearn) literally bumping into student Emily (Sadie Soverall) on the dance-floor of a bar at Manchester University. Sparks fly, but when the smitten Owen tries to ring Emily a couple of days later, he discovers that she’s given him a number with a missing digit.