Reviews for this film from our members:
- Chris Barsanti @ Film Journal International
- Excerpt: John Slattery’s feature directing debut is an agreeably gritty and illusion-free dark comedy about low-rent hoods and working-class grief based on a clutch of resonant performances, particularly Philip Seymour Hoffman and Richard Jenkins.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Having assembled a stellar cast (including the late Seymour Hoffman in his second to last role), Slattery does a great job giving them an authentic blue collar neighborhood, but the characters who inhabit it don’t always make sense.
- [New – 10/2/14] | Blake Howard @ Graffiti With Punctuation
- Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: Everyone gives it their all, but the film itself never knows what chord to strike, despite a few darkly comic moments and outbursts of brutal violence (an eye-gouging scene can’t be unseen).
- Oktay Ege Kozak @ DVD Talk
- Kristin Dreyer Kramer @ NightsAndWeekends.com
- Jamie S. Rich @ DVD Talk
- Excerpt: …for a first-timer cutting his teeth, that Slattery is this interesting in getting it almost right is commendable. I’m eager to see what he does next.
- Jonathan Richards @ www.jonrichardsplace.com
- Excerpt: There’s plenty to like about this movie – an excellent cast, a gritty sense of place, a handful of memorable scenes; but it muddles along, trying this and then that, and it’s not until deep into the movie that it decides that what it really wants to be is a dark comedy.
- Tom Santilli @ Examiner.com
- Excerpt: God’s Pocket will be remembered because of Hoffman and for nothing more. Which isn’t really a bad thing, if you think about it.
- Josh Spiegel @ Sound on Sight
- Andrew Wyatt @ Look/Listen (St. Louis Magazine)
- Excerpt: God’s Pocket most closely resembles a coal-black farce, but its repeated dithering with tragic portraiture and gritty naturalism leaves a confused impression.
