Little Joe is excruciatingly awkward, unforgivably contrived and downright boring.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jul 29, 2024

Little Joe isn't emotional or even tacky enough in its convictions and twists to be fun —like a lot of B-movie sci-fi movies—nor is it as elevated and complex as Upstream Color (Shane Carruth, 2013)

| Original Score: 5/10 | Feb 27, 2023

Little Joe is a sleek and stylish rethinking of the “pod” movies like Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

| Dec 7, 2022

Hausner isn't Cronenberg: Instead of committing to the human impact of a perturbing situation, she chooses an aseptic frame, convinced that it's possible to impose the coordinates of a scientific experiment onto a film. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 3, 2022

A true tour de force in ambiguity, Little Joe explores two possibilities to the max: accepting the fantastical or seeking a rational explanation grounded in delusion. [Full review in Spanish]

| Nov 2, 2022

"Deeply unsettling,” words I sincerely intend as compliments...

| Oct 3, 2022

Performances are strong, particularly the always watchable Whishaw, and Connor gives a fun turn as the boy who lends his name to the plants.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 3, 2022

This modern pharmaceutical twist on the "body snatcher" sub-genre makes for thoughtful, if uneven, viewing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 13, 2022

A disquieting sci-fi/horror masterwork... constantly striking in its premise, tone, look, emotions and concepts.

| Jul 9, 2021

An above-average idea is let down by very average direction in what could have been a tight, tense sci-fi thriller [is] a limp and unconvincing outing...too much explanatory dialogue and some dodgy performances sap the proceedings of suspense or wonder.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jul 6, 2021

There's an impressiveness throughout without question, it just can't help but waste its potential with a sobering mentality that almost renders itself comatose.

| Jul 2, 2021

...a disappointing little bud of a dud that never reaches full bloom.

| Original Score: 9.5/20 | Jun 29, 2021

Little Joe is an absorbing tangle of protocol breaches and relentless percussion that emotively interrogates the ethics of scientific advancement.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 25, 2021

It is as soft as a withered flower and slowly plants the seed of boredom within me. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/10 | May 24, 2021

Unsettling and promising. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 21, 2020

Little Joe is a masterclass in off-kilter cinematography, and rising and sustained tension, with the sterile setting of the scientific laboratories the perfect backdrop to this creepy chiller.

| Sep 28, 2020

So overloaded with mannered style that its deliberately glacial pacing ultimately outstays its welcome and its messaging becomes muddied.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 16, 2020

Packs dangerous thoughts, but is nothing if not a conversation starter.

| Original Score: 3.0/5 | Aug 3, 2020

The film updates the plot of Invasion of the Body Snatchers to our fake happy era, with a Charlie Brooker-style cautionary tale.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 23, 2020

A very interesting and intelligent essay on motherhood and happiness camouflaged in colorful and dystopian terror. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 11, 2020