We Got This Covered by David James

iBoy is a fully charged superhero tale that soon overcomes its admittedly ludicrous premise.

Time Out London

iBoy’ is a sparky film, embedded in London’s cheek-by-jowl world of wealth and poverty. It’s also a dark teen drama, peppered with brutal beatings, gang rape, drugs and dead bodies.

The Telegraph

The film’s secret superhero is Maisie Williams as Lucy.

The Telegraph by Tristram Fane Saunders

The film’s secret superhero is Maisie Williams as Lucy.

Time Out London by Ellie Walker-Arnott

iBoy’ is a sparky film, embedded in London’s cheek-by-jowl world of wealth and poverty. It’s also a dark teen drama, peppered with brutal beatings, gang rape, drugs and dead bodies.

Screen Daily by Wendy Ide

A superpower movie with a premise absurd even by the far-fetched standards of the genre, iBoy misses out on the opportunity for entertaining mischief with a po-faced approach to the material and a lack of internal logic to the story.

The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw

For me the superpower idea can only work with humour and lightness of touch: and there is a persistent and disconcerting joylessness about this.

Screen International by Wendy Ide

A superpower movie with a premise absurd even by the far-fetched standards of the genre, iBoy misses out on the opportunity for entertaining mischief with a po-faced approach to the material and a lack of internal logic to the story.