3/5

The creepy child genre hasn't had a movie this much fun in a long time.

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09/06/07

7/10

The film is the ultimate birth control. If you plan on one day having kids, don't see this film. If you already have children, you will never look at them the same way again.

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02/28/08

43/100

Ratliff never acknowledges that his audience has likely seen this setup dozens of times before, making the film feel laborious and unsurprising.

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01/09/08

N/A

...a bewildering extension rather than a retread of this played-out subgenre.

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01/08/08

N/A

As horror flicks go this is both smart and suspenseful.

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01/03/08

N/A

The stress that mounts throughout this strangely tame and quietly spooky horror thriller has a masterfully palpable asphyxiating mood to it that the director exploits for maximum audience discomfort and unrelieved dread.

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12/22/07

3.5/5

The movie's eerie vibe is genuinely disturbing and difficult to shake off. That's a good thing in this genre.

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09/26/07

2/4

Bad seed? The whole dang garden is rotten in 'Joshua,' a psychological horror film that demonstrates that the poison apple doesn't fall far from the toxic family tree.

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08/31/07

1.5/4

Scenes that are meant to be scary end up generating laughs.

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08/30/07

N/A

'Joshua': More than a 'horror film' - a staunchly unforgiving, thoroughly uncomproming look at how a child systematically ruins the lives of his parents

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08/22/07

2.5/4

When the film falters, it's when it pulls its punches and gives us conventional horror that we can hold off at a safe distance, rather than uncomfortable insights that we can unsettlingly recognize from our own household experience.

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08/10/07

3/4

The nerve-shattering ending will have you hugging your children when you get home - but only if there are witnesses present.

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08/03/07

2.4/5

run-of-the-mill psychological thriller.

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07/29/07

2.5/5

if you strip away all the meddling that Joshua does, it's clear to see the family is dysfunctionally psychopathic from the start

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07/23/07

3/4

Father and mother no longer know best.

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07/21/07

3/4

...certainly succeeds in bringing a fair amount of depth to an admittedly familiar storyline.

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07/20/07

3.5/4

It's subtle and it's terrific.

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07/19/07

2.5/4

The contrived script expects us to believe that Joshua's fainting spells, his nocturnal home videos of his sleeping family and his acts of violence on crowded New York City streets fail to raise suspicion until it is too late.

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07/19/07

3/5

Watch this movie on a night when you don't think you need birth control.

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07/18/07

B

There's a definite "Bad Seed" vibe going on in this sophisticated psychological thriller that unfolds with such precision you'll want to see it a second time just to catch its many degrees of nuanced escalation.

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07/17/07