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joe.ie is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Stephen Porzio.

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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Stephen Porzio Might be the franchise's most ambitious and crazy entry yet... Absolutely electric.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
Giant (2025) Stephen Porzio Giant is funny, heartfelt and tremendously acted. In our opinion, it’s a knock-out.
Posted Jan 10, 2026  Edit critic review
Marty Supreme (2025) Stephen Porzio Marty Supreme blends the period setting and compelling underdog sports drama of The Queen's Gambit with Uncut Gems' levels of authenticity and breakneck thrills.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Sentimental Value (2025) Stephen Porzio An ambitious film that feels slightly messier than Trier’s best work... Yet, Sentimental Value’s high points really are transcendent.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Saipan (2025) Stephen Porzio Perhaps a smaller... version of Saipan, where it’s just [Hardwicke and Coogan] acting against each other, would be the perfect way to tell this story. This... still has enough of this to be worth seeking out, even if it leaves you wanting slightly more.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Stephen Porzio At a time when a lot of blockbusters can feel like junk food, Avatar: Fire and Ash is a five-course meal.
Posted Dec 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025) Stephen Porzio The real reason to watch the remake... is the charming performance from [Ruby] Modine.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Horseshoe (2025) Stephen Porzio The comedy-drama is the type of warm Irish crowdpleaser that will provoke some big chuckles, while subtly tugging on the heartstrings.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Lurker (2025) Stephen Porzio [Writer-director Alex] Russell’s movie eschews easy resolution, something that causes it to linger in viewers’ brains long after its credits roll.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Stephen Porzio A significant improvement on its predecessors, Knives Out and Glass Onion, movies that we already found very entertaining... Rian Johnson crafts his best mystery yet.
Posted Dec 02, 2025  Edit critic review
Train Dreams (2025) Stephen Porzio The movie’s lyrical direction and writing, its screenplay’s epic scope... and its soulful performances all combine to create this highly emotional meditation on the relationship between work and family, humans and the land, and humans and time.
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
Christy (2025) Stephen Porzio All in all, Christy is a good movie as opposed to a great one, even though it’s anchored by a terrific lead performance.
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
In the Lost Lands (2025) Stephen Porzio [Brief] entertaining moments are drowned out in a barrage of cliched dialogue, confusing storytelling and highly artificial and drab-looking sets, which really kill any sense of immersion in the fantasy tale.
Posted Nov 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Opus (2025) Stephen Porzio Even if the payoff isn’t as mind-blowing as viewers may have hoped, the journey to get there is pleasingly creepy, funny and tremendously well-acted.
Posted Nov 25, 2025  Edit critic review
A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) Stephen Porzio By boldly eschewing clear resolution, the movie and the dilemmas and ideas it presents linger longer with the viewer.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Anemone (2025) Stephen Porzio The return of Day-Lewis is worth the price of admission... It’s a typically spine-tingling performance from the Oscar-winner, who does incredible work slowly unfurling Ray’s stern, hyper-masculine facade to reveal the wealth of emotion raging underneath.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Predator: Badlands (2025) Stephen Porzio Trachtenberg maintains the mean-and-lean ‘gang on a mission’ storytelling that made Prey a surprise hit, but places it amidst a more dazzling, fun and inventive backdrop.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Die My Love (2025) Stephen Porzio There is an over-reliance on exaggerated metaphors and histrionic behaviour (...to give a sense of a character being animalistic, there are numerous scenes of said character walking around on all fours) that does drain a lot of the authenticity...
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Keeper (2025) Stephen Porzio At a time when many "elevated horrors" prioritise over-explaining their metaphors and themes, rather than delivering scares and thrills, Keeper’s inventiveness, persistent air of unease, and hard-to-pin-down story should be celebrated.
Posted Nov 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Strange Harvest (2024) Stephen Porzio [Strange Harvest's] authentic performances and its impressive aping in its construction and editing of real true crime docs, does a lot to ground Ortiz’s impressively convoluted and twisted yarn.
Posted Nov 02, 2025  Edit critic review
Bugonia (2025) Stephen Porzio Bugonia is indeed extremely disturbing. What’s most impressive about it, though, is that it’s also compulsively watchable. In fact, it’s perhaps Lanthimos’ most mainstream effort to date.
Posted Nov 02, 2025  Edit critic review
The Mastermind (2025) Stephen Porzio The Mastermind is... more for the arthouse crowd, who will probably get a kick out of O'Connor looking cool as he blows up his life and moody jazz music plays in the background.
Posted Oct 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Brick (2025) Stephen Porzio One-dimensional characters, some repetitive scenes and an increasingly muddled plot do detract from the effective on-paper allegory.
Posted Oct 29, 2025  Edit critic review
The Cut (2024) Stephen Porzio Despite the lack of in-ring action (perhaps the result of a low budget)... The Cut makes for a mostly powerful watch, particularly in its first three-quarters.
Posted Oct 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Borderline (2025) Stephen Porzio Even with [several] flaws... a brilliant central performance by Ray Nicholson keeps viewers glued to the screen.
Posted Oct 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Caught Stealing (2025) Stephen Porzio Caught Stealing is wickedly entertaining and stylish... That said, [Darren Aronofsky's] latest still retains his trademark darkness.
Posted Oct 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Girls & Boys (2025) Stephen Porzio The real star... is [the] rendering of Halloween night in Dublin city. Full of bursts of firework light, the neon of the Liffey’s quays and reflective glass and mirror panes, it is maybe the most beautiful Ireland’s capital has ever looked on screen.
Posted Oct 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Sunphlowers (2025) Stephen Porzio This is a film that could bring a tear to your eye.
Posted Oct 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer (2024) Stephen Porzio As quirky as its title suggests... That said, Psycho Therapy stands above many similar crime farces thanks to its satirical elements and its interesting performances.
Posted Oct 29, 2025  Edit critic review
TRON: Ares (2025) Stephen Porzio Like Tron and Tron: Legacy, the more characters and concepts Tron: Ares introduces, the more it struggles in terms of telling a fully coherent story... Yet, it’s hard to care too much about this when the visuals and the music are so dazzling.
Posted Oct 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Good Boy (2025) Stephen Porzio [Transitions] from a gripping experiential horror to a more standard “elevated horror”... succumbing to some of the increasingly tiring tropes of the latter... Yet, [it's still] truly a one-of-a-kind and unforgettable horror thriller experience.
Posted Oct 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Black Phone 2 (2025) Stephen Porzio The snowy Rocky Mountain setting gives Black Phone 2 an incredibly tactile quality... with director [Scott Derrickson] milking the gorgeous and cinematic but harsh and desolate setting for all its worth dramatically.
Posted Oct 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Forgive Us All (2025) Stephen Porzio While we can imagine some viewers feeling like the action arrives a little too late, we believe the payoff to the slow burn makes Forgive Us All just about worth seeking out for genre fans.
Posted Oct 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Found Footage: The Making of The Patterson Project (2025) Stephen Porzio We wouldn’t be surprised if the comedy horror mockumentary garners a cult following in the years to come or if [director Max] Tzannes goes on to bigger things.
Posted Jul 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Den of Thieves: Pantera (2025) Stephen Porzio ...even more convoluted than the original Den of Thieves... Yet, it’s hard to care when [it] does such a great job establishing his two central characters and taking the time to show all the meticulous work they must carry out to pull off the impossible.
Posted Jul 10, 2025  Edit critic review
How to Train Your Dragon (2025) Stephen Porzio While the live-action version might lack some of the artful and comic expressionism better suited to the animated medium, it makes up for it by being very immersive and visceral.
Posted Jul 10, 2025  Edit critic review
28 Years Later (2025) Stephen Porzio 28 Years Later is a near-perfect, consistently thrilling blend of story and style... Manages to find a fresh perspective on the apocalypse, just as viewers may have thought there were no new stories to tell.
Posted Jul 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) Stephen Porzio Chances are that most people buying a ticket for Jurassic World Rebirth are less focused on themes, instead hoping to see exciting, stylish, visceral dinosaur-related action. And on that vital front, [director Gareth] Edwards delivers.
Posted Jul 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Superman (2025) Stephen Porzio [James Gunn] has delivered a crowd-pleasing, almost sure-to-be blockbuster that faithfully brings the character to the screen while placing him into exciting and dramatically rich new territory.
Posted Jul 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Swing Bout (2024) Stephen Porzio [An] Irish boxing thriller that punches above its weight.
Posted Jul 03, 2025  Edit critic review
F1 The Movie (2025) Stephen Porzio [F1] does not reinvent the wheel. That said, it hits all the best beats of the sports movie formula... with such energy, enthusiasm and charm that it is nearly impossible not to be won over by the film.
Posted Jul 03, 2025  Edit critic review
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