Little Joe Reviews

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James Croot
Stuff.co.nz
September 28, 2020
Little Joe is a masterclass in off-kilter cinematography, and rising and sustained tension, with the sterile setting of the scientific laboratories the perfect backdrop to this creepy chiller.
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Tom Beasley
VultureHound
August 16, 2020
So overloaded with mannered style that its deliberately glacial pacing ultimately outstays its welcome and its messaging becomes muddied.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5
Tom Kiesecoms
ScreenAnarchy
August 3, 2020
Packs dangerous thoughts, but is nothing if not a conversation starter.
Full Review | Original Score: 3.0/5
Federico Furzan
Cinelipsis
July 30, 2020
An extremely arrogant film whose genre is unknown and misused for the sake of some story yet to be found. [Full review in Spanish].
Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4
Prahlad Srihari
Firstpost
July 23, 2020
The film updates the plot of Invasion of the Body Snatchers to our fake happy era, with a Charlie Brooker-style cautionary tale.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5
Irene Crespo
Cinemanía (Spain)
June 11, 2020
A very interesting and intelligent essay on motherhood and happiness camouflaged in colorful and dystopian terror. [Full review in Spanish]
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5
Kiko Vega
Espinof
June 11, 2020
'Little Joe' reformulates the paranoia in horror with an exquisite and icy staging. [Full Review in Spanish]
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5
Guillem Martinez Oya
Cinematismo
May 2, 2020
"Little Joe" is the artificial nature. An intervention of people in what they cannot dominate. A sample of how we accept what is harmful and normalize it; a terrifying event. [Full review in Spanish]
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5
Monica Reid
Far Out Magazine
April 11, 2020
Yet another unconventional horror story with a deeply buried message, Little Joe is distinctly unusual in style, narrative, theme, and prevailing mood.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5
John Serba
Decider
April 10, 2020
As the story progresses, the psychothriller mind games get deeper and crazier, giving it some delectable thematic richness.
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Grant Watson
Fiction Machine
April 4, 2020
This subtle, insidious science fiction thriller deserves an appreciative audience.
Full Review | Original Score: 8/10
Chris Alexander
Alexander On Film
March 9, 2020
Bereft of any sort of sex, violence or frissons, the almost experimental film goes to work on your head and as such, will likely stick with you and haunt you for days to come.
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Sebastian Zavala Kahn
Ventana Indiscreta
March 6, 2020
It should find an audience among those who want to see something less obvious, but with a more lasting effect. [Full review in Spanish]
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5
Tom Shone
Sunday Times (UK)
February 24, 2020
Austere and insinuating rather than genuinely scary, Little Joe gets by on an air of fragrant rot when it ought to be sprinkling Miracle-Gro on our fears.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5
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Kevin Maher
Times (UK)
February 24, 2020
This agonisingly slow pseudo sci-fi has camera moves, performances and lines of dialogue that. Seem. To. Take. An. Eternity. To. Deliver. Without. Much. Impact. Or. Dramatic. Pay Off.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5
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Charlotte O'Sullivan
London Evening Standard
February 24, 2020
It's a little film. But it's epic.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5
Mark Kermode
Observer (UK)
February 23, 2020
For some, Little Joe may seem too sterile to engage emotionally, but I found it glassily unsettling - even more so on second viewing. Inhale at your peril.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5
Kevin Wight
The Wee Review
February 23, 2020
A fascinating but aloof chiller that updates ideas from Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Brave New World, and the paranoiac fiction of Ira Levin to the pharmaceutical present.
Full Review | Original Score: 3
Graham Fuller
The Arts Desk
February 21, 2020
Little Joe charges its icy air with... thorny questions, but Hausner leaves the viewer to answer them.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5
Jamie East
The Sun (UK)
February 21, 2020
Too much arthouse and not enough entertainment.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5
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