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.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 24, 2020

It's a little film. But it's epic.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 24, 2020

For some, Little Joe may seem too sterile to engage emotionally, but I found it glassily unsettling - even more so on second viewing. Inhale at your peril.

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

Hausner and co-writer Géraldine Bajard present a nightmare in pastel colours in this breathtaking modern sci-fi.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 21, 2020

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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 19, 2020

A unique, stimulating examination of our quick-fix, happiness-hungry culture.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 19, 2020

Only occasionally will the director permit us the partial release of an old-fashioned shock. When violence does break out, she finds a way to stage it so that we feel the punch, as it were, without actually seeing it.

| Feb 19, 2020

A weirder, subtler film than its surface suggests.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 18, 2020

What more can you ask from a film about a mind-controlling flower?

| Feb 12, 2020

Hausner aims to convince us that the open-endedness at stake is a productive one, but it's difficult to shake the feeling of having been deceived and manipulated by Little Joe when the closing credits roll.

| Jan 31, 2020

Just as the formal and technical aspects of Little Joe ensure its consistent mystery and surprise, so too does the film's genre fluidity guarantee that no one theme is overinvested with meaning.

| Dec 13, 2019

What if you bred a plant with the power to make people "happy" - and its zombified fans would kill to protect it? You'd have Jessica Hausner's mindbending 'Little Joe'-a 'Body Snatchers' for the age of antidepressants.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 7, 2019

It feels a little too muted to be truly frightening or creepy... But the aesthetic is interesting. I was disappointed, but not uninterested.

| Dec 7, 2019

The film never fulfills the promise of its stylish weirdness.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 6, 2019

Effectively creepy...

| Dec 5, 2019

Writer/director Jessica Hausner has created a striking piece of work.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 5, 2019

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

| Dec 5, 2019

It's one thing for a movie to be quiet in its approach. It's quite another for it to have ideas that really deserve less than a murmur, that never scale the heights of mild interest on the way to drama.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 4, 2019

A delightfully oddball and dread-filled psycho-bio thriller.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 3, 2019

"Little Joe" is a tale of exquisite refinement, not heavy-handed horror, always walking that thin line between implication and doubt.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 3, 2019