Dilts and Grashaw build out “What Josiah Saw” thoughtfully, letting the dread from one story bleed into the next, until everything is covered in a dark, dark stain.

| Aug 8, 2022

The family trauma is so clotted-thick, a faster pace and tightened-up editing might have eradicated the slow-motion underwater feel of the whole.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 4, 2022

It has a stubborn, almost literary feel for character that accumulates a baleful momentum by the time the finale hits.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 3, 2022

[What Josiah Saw] is unapologetically brutal, the kind of haunting drama that feels unsettling and dangerous even in its quiet, character-driven moments.

| Aug 24, 2021

By showing us What Josiah Saw, director Vincent Grashaw has carved a jagged treasure from this bloody soil.

| Aug 17, 2021

The writer-director piles deviancy on top of taboo until your trauma receptors go numb.

| Aug 16, 2021

[A] slow-burning and diffuse Southern Gothic drama...

| Aug 16, 2021