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Joe
Directed by
David Gordon Green
R
2014
1h 57m
Drama
,
Crime
,
and more
6.8
87%
68%
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An ex-con, who is the unlikeliest of role models, meets a 15-year-old boy and is faced with the choice of redemption or ruin.
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Cast of Joe
Nicolas Cage
Joe Ransom
Tye Sheridan
Gary
Ronnie Gene Blevins
Willie
Sue Rock
Merle
Heather Kafka
Lacy
Gary Poulter
Wade
Adriene Mishler
Connie
Brenda Isaacs Booth
Mother Jones
Aaron Spivey-Sorrells
Sammy
Dana Freitag
Sue
Anna Niemtschk
Dorothy
Erin Elizabeth Reed
Cathy
Jon Bonzor
Deputy
Jonny Mars
Young Deputy
Elbert Hill Jr.
Wino
Lazaro Solares
Henry
Lico Reyes
Blind George
Lynette Walden
Charlotte
Patrick Arnez
Slim
Kevin Kinkade
Brothel Patron
Brian Mays
Junior
Robert Johnson
Cop #1
David Gordon Green
Director / Producer
Gary Hawkins
Writer
Larry Brown
Writer
Lisa Muskat
Producer
Derrick Tseng
Producer
Christopher Woodrow
Producer
Joe Ratings & Reviews
Sisco Jeanette
June 21, 2025
Best movie I have ever seen Nicholas Cage play in
Flavorwire
Jason Bailey
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.
Detroit News
Tom Long
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.
Seattle Times
Soren Andersen
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.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
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.
NPR
Bob Mondello
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.
leonardmaltin.com
Leonard Maltin
"Joe" paints a rich, multilayered portrait of a hardscrabble existence in this community, not unlike the world we encountered in Debra Granik's "Winter's Bone."
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
The film belongs to Cage. You can feel his compassion as Joe defies the reduced options of his life. There's not an unfelt moment in Cage's performance. Or in the movie.
RogerEbert.com
Peter Sobczynski
This is not just the best performance that [Cage] has given in ages-this is one of the very best performances of his long and strange career.
San Jose Mercury News
Tony Hicks
"Joe" ties up the audience emotionally.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
This world feels studied in its "authenticity": the rusted GMC pickup, the tumbledown shack, the boozy brothel, and angry Joe Ransom guttin' deer and tending to his own gunshot wounds with a grimace and a bottle of alcohol.
Chicago Sun-Times
Bill Stamets
Gripping and at times agonizing.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
If you've missed Nicolas Cage and the special qualities he brings to movies, "Joe" is a good place to get reacquainted.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Poulter's intensity matches Cage's, note for note. The frightening verisimilitude of his portrayal lends the film a cinema verite realism that nicely mutes some of Cage's star power.
Los Angeles Times
Betsy Sharkey
Though "Joe" occasionally slips and falters, the filmmakers and actors get all the hard-luck details right. Besides, it's nice to see its star out of the cage for a change.
Boston Globe
Peter Keough
Whatever you call it, it's not quite right.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
Mr. Cage gives his most committed performance in years as this divided soul, but it still looks like acting when compared with Mr. Poulter's embodiment of pure evil.
TheWrap
Alonso Duralde
While Green deftly brings us into this small Texas town, perfectly capturing its inhabitants and their humid surroundings, the script by Gary Hawkins (adapting the novel by Larry Brown) overplays its hand.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Williams
"Joe" is not handsome or especially smart, but like its namesake, the film has enough rough humor and respect for hard work to qualify as average.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
A beautiful film, shot by Tim Orr, that is elevated by Mr. Cage's stirring portrait of a violence-prone man who can't restrain himself from doing good.
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