Little Joe

"Little Joe manages to exert a peculiar pull in spite of being constructed with material you've likely seen elsewhere."

"A disquieting and precise blend of sci-fi, horror, and human drama."

"The film never fulfils the promise of its stylish weirdness."

"Mindbending..."

"What the film lacks in structure it makes up for in its eerie, cold singularity."

"A weirder, subtler film than its surface suggests."

"By eschewing fast-paced suspense Hausner takes the sting out of her story, instead showcasing a bold aesthetic sense that feels like an exciting taste of what's to come."

"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."

"The psychothriller mind games get deeper and crazier, giving it some delectable thematic richness."

"Little Joe is a masterclass in off-kilter cinematography, and rising and sustained tension..."

"Visually, it’s a total feast for the eyes, contrasting art-deco pinks and mint greens against sterile, symmetrically framed expanses of white, vaguely evoking the aesthetic of some lost sci-fi film of the ’70s."

"A lifeless, tone-deaf variation on Invasion of the Body Snatchers. ... There’s just nothing going on here with which to engage your interest, nor is there a single moment to even slightly increase the viewer’s pulse rate."

"None of this is represented in any compelling dramatic style, and the actors – all very talented and assured – have perhaps not had clear enough direction. It is a mood piece. Whose mood leads nowhere."

"Gardening has never been so creepy."

"An artfully unnerving, austerely hypnotic horror movie about a very sinister plant."