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Joe the King

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75 Boston Globe: Jay Carr Whaley's self-effacing but strongly etched and wrenchingly effective film.Read Full Review »
70 Washington Post: Desson Thomson Leads you through a miserable childhood without sentimentality or relief. The effect is torturous.Read Full Review »
60 LOS ANGELES TIMES: Jan Stewart Antisentimental to a fault.Read Full Review »
60 Village Voice: Amy Taubin The film belongs to Fleiss, and he makes Joe's inner life so transparent that it's heartbreaking to watch the boy dig himself into a hole.Read Full Review »
50 The New York Times: Stephen Holden Dramatically Joe the King feels unglued, as if crucial sequences had been left on the cutting-room floor.Read Full Review »
50 CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert Too much self-pity.Read Full Review »
50 ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Bruce Fretts So willfully bleak and profanity-filled, it could only have been written and directed by an actor.Read Full Review »
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