Joe - Avis

This is not just the best performance that he has given in ages—this is one of the very best performances of his long and strange career.

...a superbly realised film, which, like its eponymous hero, has a brittle outer shell concealing a surprisingly warm heart.

...pungently macho adaptation of Mississippi writer Larry Brown's 1991 grit lit novel...

Næstekærlighed, tilgivelse og overlevelse får en ordentlig behandling igennem to små seje timer i selskab med et par seje drenge, der både hver i sær og sammen kæmper for at få et bedre liv.

Instruktøren David Gordon Green er en menneskekender, og han får det beskidte, sydlige USA til at ligne det beskidte, sydlige USA, uden at det bliver en howdy-karikatur.

...Nicolas Cage gives a performance that delivers on his early promise of being one of the best actors of his generation.

...a bloody cut of Southern Gothic and a bullish portrait of masculinity in crisis, perfectly embodied by Nicolas Cage.

...a seething piece of social-realist Southern gothic, featuring a powerful performance from a big and broodingly bearded Nicolas Cage.

Joe er en tiltrængt påmindelse om, at når den mærkværdige, iltre skuespiller holdes i snor af den helt rigtige instruktør, viser han sig som et fænomenalt talent.