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(1 - 23) of 23 OFCS Rating: 39% Rotten Page   1   D- "Joshua is a psychological thriller so devoid of value, it makes one wonder if someone in the acquisition department at Fox Searchlight doesn't have a drinking problem."   eFilmCritic.com   Brian Orndorf 3/5 "Ultimately predictable."   Filmcritic.com   Chris Cabin B "There's a definite "Bad Seed" vibe going on in this sophisticated psychological thriller that unfolds with such precision you'll want to see it a second time just to catch its many degrees of nuanced escalation."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "Despite such creepy moments, the film's fundamental narrative is more wearying than horrifying."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 3/5 "Watch this movie on a night when you don't think you need birth control."   eFilmCritic.com   Dan Lybarger 3/4 "...certainly succeeds in bringing a fair amount of depth to an admittedly familiar storyline."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 3.5/4 "A haunting and evocative motion picture that stays with you."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman 1.5/4 "Joshua might have been delicious if it weren't so blatantly hateful toward women, queers, and religion."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez B "It's the carnival-fun-house kind of entertainment: genuinely creepy in some places, giggly in other places, and sometimes both at the same time."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider B- "A genuinely unsettling film about a sociopathic child...an enjoyably decorous creepshow."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek B- "Joshua covers, by and large, pretty familiar territory, but it at least grounds its story in the ambiguity of reality."   Cinepinion   Henry Stewart 2/5 "In good quality horror, fear and suspense arise from a deepening sense of character, not a noisier sense of one."   Boxoffice Magazine   Jay Antani 43/100 "Ratliff never acknowledges that his audience has likely seen this setup dozens of times before, making the film feel laborious and unsurprising."   MovieMartyr.com   Jeremy Heilman 3/5 "[Director] Ratliff captures an eerily too-realistic vision of hellish New York motherhood"   Film-Forward.com   Kent Turner 2.5/5 "if you strip away all the meddling that Joshua does, it's clear to see the family is dysfunctionally psychopathic from the start"   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr 2.5/4 "A formulaic thriller too in love with its own intelligence to bother with the lowbrow business of being scary."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 2.5/4 "Shows its cards too early and then tells you what they are in case you missed them."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik C- "I'm not sure whether Joshua's campiness outweighs its offensiveness - it's got both in spades - but there's no getting around the fact that Ratliff's creepy-kid thriller is seriously awful."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 4/5 "Director George Ratliff has crafted a pretty intelligent film that exploits that conceit without going to the over-the-top extremes as such other bad-seed films as "The Good Son" and, well, "The Bad Seed.""   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 3/5 "The creepy child genre hasn't had a movie this much fun in a long time."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline B- "...the kind of movie that makes you want to yell at the characters: Can't you see what your crazy kid is doing?!?!"   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 6/10 "Subtle and sinister - it's evil, yes, but not very scary."   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger 2.5/4 "This stylish and sophisticated film loses its way in a frustratingly vague third act that's more unsatisfying than unsettling."   Reel.com   Timothy Knight  (1 - 23) of 23 OFCS Rating: 39% Rotten Page   1