The Lipster

Iron Man (12A)

Robert Downey Jr turns the wacky up to 11 in this comic-book-to-film superhero flick, directed by Jon Favreau (Monica's billionaire chap from Friends).

Guardian 2/5: "Iron Man, for all its disposability, makes a cheerful and unpretentious change to the current crop of war movies. At least at first."

Time Out 3/6: "Like Iron Man’s suit, Favreau’s film feels like it has been meticulously assembled rather than lovingly formed."

Times 4/5: "Favreau has done a magnificent job to keep his characters at a cartoon distance, while persuading the audience to believe in them."

Joy Division (15)

There's an argument that there's enough Joy Division ephemera in this world, but if you aren't already stuffed to the gills with it, then this is a great place to start.

Times 4/5: "...a thorough, if slightly mythologising, documentary treatment"

Total Film 4/5: " Emotive and funny – the New Order boys puncturing the bloated theorising of critics with bursts of anecdote – Joy Division is no glum retrospective of a ‘depressing’ band."

Independent 3/5: "Gee's treatment is more than a little pretentious – you're left with the impression that their echoey post-punk melancholia was the most important thing to happen to Manchester, and quite possibly Western civilisation, since the Industrial Revolution."

Nim's Island (U)

The Guardian slates this kids' film, seemingly on the basis of Jodie Foster's face, which seems a little unfair. But, since it also features Little Miss Sunshine Abigail Breslin, we'll give it a chance.

Total Film 3/5: "This moderately charming adaptation of a novel by Wendy Orr plays like a pre-teen spin on Romancing The Stone."

Empire 3/5: "Smarter than it sounds and carried by a very funny performance by Foster, this is a kids’ movie that’s bearable for adults too."

Guardian 1/5: "Foster looks like the human form of something that Bruce Lee might have picked up and chucked at his worst enemy."

P2 (18)

If you ever found working late in a deserted office even remotely creepy, then P2 - career woman stalked by nutjob in a uniform - isn't one to ward away the heebie-jeebies.

Independent 2/5: "Low-grade, derivative psycho-stalker nonsense."

Empire 1/5: "Unscary, uninteresting tosh from people who should know better."

Times 4/5: "The cruel beauty of the film is that it hinges on obsession and hate. The performances are outstanding."