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09/06/07
Joshua (2007)
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Reviews Counted:95
Fresh:59
Rotten:36
Average Rating:6.3/10
Consensus: Though Joshua is ultimately too formulaic, its intelligence and suspenseful buildup heighten the overall creep factor.
Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: Brad (Sam Rockwell) and Abby Cairn (Vera Farmiga) seem to have it all. A successful Manhattan couple living in a plush uptown apartment, they have just welcomed their second child into the... [More]
Starring: Jacob Kogan, Sam Rockwell, Vera Farmiga, Celia Weston
Director: George Ratliff
Reviews for Joshua
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10/18/08
Joshua is a psychological thriller so devoid of value, it makes one wonder if someone in the acquisition department at Fox Searchlight doesn't have a drinking problem.
07/11/07
While Ratliff deserves credit for trying to use real demons - postpartum depression, child abuse - as elements of horror, Joshua fails to thrill because it never feels remotely realistic.
07/07/07
Ultimately predictable.
07/05/07
A tense, visually interesting tale that is ultimately a bit barren.
07/06/07
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.
07/19/07
Despite such creepy moments, the film's fundamental narrative is more wearying than horrifying.
07/06/07
Watch this movie on a night when you don't think you need birth control.
07/18/07
George Ratliff, who gave us the (much more frightening) doc Hell House, works on hoarily familiar territory here and doesn't bring much new to the party.
07/03/07
An absurd and unconvincing fright pic.
02/24/09
Perhaps the scariest thing about Joshua was the feeling I got at the end that I had just sat through some kind of weird gay panic movie.
07/05/07
Joshua might have been delicious if it weren't so blatantly hateful toward women, queers, and religion.
07/01/07
run-of-the-mill psychological thriller.
07/29/07
Ratliff's movie almost succeeds in hurtling over the trenches it digs for itself in an increasingly ludicrous third act. But not quite.
07/13/07
A psychological horror film that's a bit light on both the psychology and the horror.
07/06/07
All of this goes down very, very slowly. Joshua aspires to be a kind of Rosemary's Baby's Older Brother by way of Gaslight, but it lacks the dynamism and atmosphere of either of those inspirations.
07/05/07
Fails miserably.
07/13/07
In good quality horror, fear and suspense arise from a deepening sense of character, not a noisier sense of one.
03/01/07
It's played in the most straight-faced fashion, with little humor to lighten things up. The heavy-handed film is almost laughable as a consequence.
07/07/07
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