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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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Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (2026) Stephen Porzio As such, what should be an epic conclusion to a grand saga winds up more akin to a hurried denouement... That said, if the choice was between no new Peaky Blinders or The Immortal Man, we’d still take the latter.
Posted Mar 22, 2026  Edit critic review
OBEX (2025) Stephen Porzio There is a stronger emphasis on character and mood-setting than plot and spectacle, which might test less patient viewers... Stick with the sci-fi, however, as the second half of the film is a visual marvel.
Posted Mar 22, 2026  Edit critic review
How to Make a Killing (2026) Stephen Porzio It's [a] lack of anything new to say which prevents this... from reaching true greatness. The film, however, still remains a very entertaining way to spend 100 minutes, thanks to its fine performances, slick direction, and killer premise...
Posted Mar 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Bodycam (2025) Stephen Porzio While the film's short running time ultimately leads to its characters and its thematic ideas getting short shrift, its gritty immediacy, pacy energy and moments of nerve-rattling terror make for an undeniably gripping watch.
Posted Mar 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Bone Lake (2024) Stephen Porzio Even if [the] script becomes less interesting as it enters its third act, bringing secrets into the light and transitioning from [one genre to another], Mercedes Bryce Morgan's stylish, taut direction keeps the energy levels high...
Posted Mar 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026) Stephen Porzio Occasionally, some of Ready or Not 2's world-building undercuts the sequel's simple pleasures... Yet, there's still good dark fun to be had here.
Posted Mar 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Project Hail Mary (2026) Stephen Porzio Blends the majesty of Interstellar with the problem-solving satisfaction of The Martian... Such an enjoyable blockbuster, and a sci-fi that feels like an instant classic of the genre.
Posted Mar 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Báite (2025) Stephen Porzio Those seeking an Irish take on Twin Peaks or True Detective should probably look elsewhere. There are, though, enough pleasures and handsome craft to be found in Báite.
Posted Mar 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Cold Storage (2026) Stephen Porzio ...an unambashed B-movie that is significantly better in all areas than it has any right to be.
Posted Feb 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Send Help (2026) Stephen Porzio A genuine crowdpleaser, Send Help boasts a clever, sharp script by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift (Freddy vs Jason), which satirises contemporary corporate culture, while also playing out like a power fantasy for the people who fall victim to it.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
Rental Family (2025) Stephen Porzio Where to draw the line between the real and pretend, [the filmmakers] playfully leave it up to the viewer to decide, in a comedy-drama that, while never really groundbreaking, is often quite lovely.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
Abode (2025) Stephen Porzio Like all anthologies, some parts are stronger than others... The best segment... is the one starring Rosemary Henderson (Sister Assumpta in Father Ted) as an older woman about to meet a "long-lost love" with whom she was torn apart.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
Grizzly Night (2026) Stephen Porzio While Grizzly Night's two-dimensional characters and on-the-nose dialogue make its first 20 minutes a slight chore, it picks up significantly in its final hour.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
My Father's Shadow (2025) Stephen Porzio While Nigeria is so integral to My Father's Shadow, this is a movie with a universal appeal.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
Crime 101 (2026) Stephen Porzio While it isn't the deepest role on paper, [Barry] Keoghan imbues the part with a live-wire, feral energy, as well as almost boyish patheticness, and almost walks away with the picture in the process.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
Wuthering Heights (2026) Stephen Porzio Emerald Fennell’s "Wuthering Heights" is a modern remix of a classic, full of flair and feeling.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
Whistle (2025) Stephen Porzio While Whistle lacks the humour and dread-inducing set-pieces of Final Destination Bloodlines or the odd pathos of The Monkey, it still makes for great dumb fun.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
Neighborhood Watch (2025) Stephen Porzio The movie succeeds thanks to its tight and gripping story, its unconventional but lovable central heroes, and the funny chalk-and-cheese chemistry between Dean Morgan and Quaid.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
Anniversary (2025) Stephen Porzio A cautionary tale of how easy it is to slip into fascism, Anniversary's acting is incredible, its story is haunting, and its allusions to the real world are fascinating to dissect.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
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
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