Joe (2013)
The rough-hewn boss of a lumber crew courts trouble when he steps in to protect the youngest member of his team from an abusive father.
7 July 1972, Austin, Texas, USA
16 September 1959, California, USA
June 6, 1986 in Texas City, Texas, USA
29 September 1984, Austin, Texas, USA
11 November 1996, Elkhart, Texas, USA
June 23, 2016
The burgeoning relationships may be clichéd in this type of story, but each resonates when gritty portrayals form them.
July 14, 2015
A real movie, for grown-ups, fighting for table scraps in a marketplace dominated by spider-men and x-persons.
April 18, 2014
It's young Sheridan's Gary who makes the film work, with his mix of earnest ambition, stubborn courage and hopeful endurance. He gives "Joe" the honesty it needs.
October 10, 2014
A fantastic story of destiny finally calling for a drifter ( ... ) except that Gary Poulter was found dead two months after shooting wrapped, a victim of the alcoholic, hard-living, cancer-ridden existence he had somehow put behind him while on set.
April 17, 2014
What happens along the way isn't particularly surprising to those familiar with Southern gothic sensibilities. But if the path is predictable, the acting is not.
May 01, 2014
A tough rural drama by David Gordon Green that digs deep in all the right ways.
April 11, 2014
For Nicolas Cage, whose dumb, rant-for-hire projects have lately been making audiences forget how good he can be, Joe is more than a rescue - it's a re-birth.
April 17, 2014
A small-scale, expertly acted character study in which Cage plays an ex-con trying to make a quiet living in a backwater Texas town and trying, above all, to keep certain troublesome character tendencies in check.
June 18, 2016
The way director David Gordon Green uses Cage, and the way the actor modulates the performance, seems a quiet commentary on who he's become onscreen, and how to draw upon it.
May 02, 2014
The shifting tones keep the movie both buoyant and firmly grounded, and playing out in a sphere pitched somewhere between the mythic and the muddy.
November 06, 2014
For two hours, Cage's bad-thriller past doesn't catch up with him.
