Joshua

Name: Joshua
Released: 2007-7-6
Cast: Sam Rockwell, Vera Farmiga, Celia Weston, Dallas Roberts, Michael McKean

Joshua

R
1h 46m
2007

62%

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The arrival of a newborn girl causes the gradual disintegration of the Cairn family, particularly for 9-year-old Joshua, an eccentric boy whose proper upbringing take a sinister turn.

Director:

George Ratliff

Producer:

Johnathan Dorfman

Writer:

David Gilbert, George Ratliff

Cast:

Sam Rockwell, Vera Farmiga, Celia Weston, Dallas Roberts, Michael McKean, Jacob Kogan

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

62%

Critics Consensus: Though Joshua is ultimately too formulaic, its intelligence and suspenseful buildup heighten the overall creep factor.

Reviews

Cinelipsis

Federico Furzan

Far from perfect. But Joshua regards the creepy factor in a realistic setting. Everything that happens is uncannily possible. [Full review in Spanish].

We're finally left holding a handful of air at the end.

Easily written off as an "Omen" retread at first glance, this unfairly passed-over piece of slow-burn terror disarmingly chipped away at ideas of parental readiness with mounting dread and gruesome humor. It burrows beneath the skin and stays there.

Anyone who's ever heard (or just imagined) troubling sounds coming from a fuzzy baby monitor or fretted while their fifth-grader traversed a big-city crosswalk will have their nerves seriously jangled by Joshua.

August 16, 2017

FULL REVIEW

Orlando Sentinel

Roger Moore

March 3, 2019