Funny Games (18)

You may already know that Funny Games is a shot-for-shot remake of the director's original German-language Funny Games, an exploitative and violent chiller aimed to examine the audience's affair with screen violence. Only this time, it's got Naomi Watts in it.

Empire 4/5: "A stylish, darkly satirical horror-thriller, raising serious questions about Hollywood’s sanitisation of violence."

The Guardian 4/5: "The critical convention with violent movies is to compare them to Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, and there is an obvious similarity here: after a while, you will feel, like Malcolm McDowell's punished delinquent, that you are watching with your eyelids clipped open."

Total Film 4/5: "As a home-invasion thriller, it ranks up there with anything that Sam Peckinpah or Wes Craven ever came close to."

How She Move (12A)

Whether you see the lack of an 's' as racist or not, it's a rare few weeks that sees two dance movies released in the cinema. So we are happy.

The Mirror 3/5: "Like Step Up 2, the deficiencies are swept under the carpet thanks to some great dance sequences."

The Times 2/5: "How She Move could be described as a slightly more sophisticated version of Step Up 2 the Streets, released two weeks ago. Arguably, however, since the whole point of both films is to showcase the furiously physical dance routines, sophistication is beside the point."

Entertainment Weekly B+: "The moves — more gymnastically hybrid than those in Stomp the Yard — are fierce, especially as set to a pounding soundtrack by Missy Elliott and Busta Rhymes."

Awake (15)

Hayden Christensen stars as a heart-op patient who doesn't quite drift off during his operation. The reviews are uniformly terrible, so let's hand over to the one positive voice, YouTube commenter "p99glock": "im only wacthin it cause beutiful jesica alba in it".

The Guardian 2/5: "The twists and turns in the plot are diverting in a ridiculous way, but it's a film you watch in a state of incredulous inertia, tormented by the agonising implausibility, yet too paralysed with boredom to do anything about it."

Empire 1/5: "Less painful than having your chest cut open, but a disagreeable experience just the same."

The Times 2/5: "While the whole story unravels under scrutiny, there’s a certain guilty pleasure to be had in this twist-heavy tale of medical malpractice."

Son Of Rambow (12A)

It's set in 1982, stars Jessica Hynes nee Stevenson, sees kids trying to film their own version of Rambo and looks like the sort of movie for which the words "cockle-warming" will be used in every single review.

Empire 4/5: "If you only see one Rambo movie this year, make sure it’s this one."

The Guardian 2/5: "I really wanted to like it, and there are some laughs, but the film doesn't fully earn our sentimental indulgence, and there is a persistent sort of Britfilm lameness."

Total Film 4/5: "Modest in scale but mighty in heart, Son Of Rambow is far from perfect but consistently displays a rough-hewn, ramshackle charm that’s impossible to resist."