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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★★★★★
This is one of the darkest, bleakest films I have seen in a long time. All characters, without any exception, are unhappy souls, surviving in a grim world, unable to improve their lives, prone to an almost genetically determined urge to mess things up.
The im...
★★★★★
Nicholas Cage still has got it! The man can still act, he only needs a good screenplay and a decent director.
The good: solid acting performances in a bleak, hardhitting, true to life story about going down the drain.
It's a slowburning story, but a REAL one...
★★★★★
'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.'
It is hard to describe life. Stories about mermaids fighting wars in different galaxies, that is easy to describe; but writing abou...
★★★★★
In the South of the USA, the foreman Joe (Nicolas Cage) works with his black crew poisoning trees for the farmers to clean the field. Joe has a trauma, since he spent almost three years in prison for assaulting an abusive police officer. As the result, he has...
★★★★★
Joe (2013)
Where our children turn when their parents let them down is one of the most troubling areas for fact and fiction both. Nicolas Cage's checkered career doesn't diminish his strong, heartfelt performance here as Joe, leading a group of workers in the...
