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By Elliott Noble (448) for Sky Cinema (1,726) on 23 Jul 2014

After running a few fool's errands for Hollywood with the likes of Pineapple Express, Your Highness and The Sitter, director David Gordon Green…

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By Nigel Andrews (1,359) for Financial Times (1,822) on 23 Jul 2014

The plot griddles its right-on themes…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for Guardian (4,584) on 23 Jul 2014

Here is a seething piece of social-realist Southern gothic, featuring a powerful performance from a big and broodingly bearded Nicolas Cage…

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By David Hughes (139) for Empire (3,446) on 20 Jul 2014

An understated Nicolas Cage — there’s a phrase you don’t get to write too often these days — anchors a superbly realised film, which,…

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By Siobhan Synnot (412) for Scotland on Sunday (18) on 20 Jul 2014

Moody, melancholy and well-intentioned, Joe works better as a character study than the melodramatic parable that it eventually embraces…

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By Matt Glasby (349) for Total Film (3,532) on 20 Jul 2014

Green's soul-baring Southern noir has much to say about those who speak with their fists and is a masterwork of threatening melancholy…

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By Stella Papamichael (611) for Digital Spy (1,161) on 20 Jul 2014

Green doesn't take the obvious route, looping in and out of a series of incidents instead of chaining them too tightly in cause and effect,…

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By Margot Harrison (328) for Seven Days (657) on 01 Jul 2014

What lifts Joe above similar stories, besides the acting, is Green's intense attentiveness to setting and atmosphere…

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By Simon Miraudo (882) for Quickflix (709) on 30 Jun 2014

Nicolas Cage is as if the question Turn down for what? took human form and then starred in a bunch of direct-to-DVD thrillers…

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By Will Leitch (411) for Deadspin (356) on 30 Jun 2014

Joe is elegiac and wistful, but it also is loose enough to let Cage run a little free…

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By Alistair Harkness (1,042) for Scotsman (1,471) on 25 Jun 2014

Cage gives us a complex portrait of a formerly bad man trying to do the right thing in all his imperfect and messy glory…

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By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 24 Jun 2014

A beautifully, painfully wrought drama about violence and redemption…

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Common Sense Media (4,943) on 19 Jun 2014

Green is as observant as ever, and he not only conjures up a vivid, self-contained universe, but peoples it with fascinating, damaged characters…

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By John Serba (472) for MLive.com (475) on 18 Jun 2014

One of Nicolas Cage's great performances…

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By Eddie Harrison (272) for The List (2,018) on 18 Jun 2014

Joe may be too bleak and unsparing for some tastes, but it's an adult, accomplished drama that elevates an ordinary story to near-operatic heights…

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By Jeff Beck (630) for Examiner.com (1,617) on 15 Jun 2014

Joe has just about everything right on the surface, but without anything for the audience to get engaged with, it merely results in an empty…

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By John Wirt (638) for Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) (638) on 18 May 2014

Nicolas Cage doing some of his most focused, deepest work…

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By Mike Scott (1,178) for New Orleans Times-Picayune (573) on 15 May 2014

The result is intense and powerful, a full-color portrait of the importance of never surrendering…

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By Geoff Pevere (572) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 01 May 2014

None of this would work with anywhere near the power it does without Nicolas Cage, whom Green has smartly cast in this sometimes maddeningly…

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By Nathalie Atkinson (93) for National Post (1,405) on 01 May 2014

It's a classic redemption narrative where the ongoing temptations of violence culminate in a sort of justice…

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