Not having seen this film yet myself (as a Searchlight employee) I'm WAY psyched to read about its enthusiastic embrace by the Hollywood Reporter. After all, quality horror flicks only seem to come along once in a blue moon...

Read what HW says about JOSHUA below. This review is also available in its entirety online.

• "Bottom line: a brilliant house-of-horror tale with hitchcockean flair."

• "With this superbly crafted psychological thriller, Fox Searchlight has made another savvy Sundance move. 'Joshua' will win critical accolades and draw superbly through word-of-mouth.

• "Through an ever-darkening scope, filmmaker George Ratliff elegantly turns our perspective."

• "Layered with smart red herrings and enlivened by rich and misleading visual textures, 'Joshua' descends into a house of horror. So superbly calibrated is Ratliff's direction of narrative misdirection that we're never sure what is behind this gradual and unsparing descent: The picture-perfect family is horribly imploding."

• "'Joshua' is a first-rate horror-of-personality tale, one enlivened by the psychologically astute and brilliantly textured writing of Ratliff and David Gilbert. Under Ratliff's superb modulation, the performances are exemplary, including Sam Rockwell as the courageous father and Vera Farmiga as the brittle wife and mother.

• "Technical contributions are marvelous, especially cinematographer Benoit Debie's luminous compositions and evocative framings. Nico Muhly's score is provocatively lush and moody, pitched high by Joshua's own somber Beethoven piano playing and his deliriously assaultive rendition of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star."