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Pollock
Sony Pictures Classics
MPAA RATING: R for language and brief sexuality
Starring
Ed Harris,
Marcia Gay Harden,
Amy Madigan,
Jennifer Connelly,
Jeffrey Tambor,
Bud Cort,
John Heard,
and
Val Kilmer
A look back into the life of an extraordinary man, a man who has fittingly been called "an artist dedicated to concealment, a celebrity who nobody knew." (Sony Pictures Classics)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Barbara Turner
Susan Emshwiller
Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith (book Jackson Pollock: An American Saga)
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Ed Harris
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: July 24, 2001
Video: July 24, 2001
Theatrical: December 15, 2000
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| RUNNING TIME: |
119 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
Marcia Gay Harden received an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress at the 73rd Academy Awards in 2001. Ed Harris was also nominated for Best Actor.

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Pollock is confident, insightful work--one of the year's best films.

91
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
Harris genuinely seems to be at one with the character, and his movie is eerily alive.

90
Time
Richard Schickel
The result is a harrowing film, impossible to "like" in any conventional way, hypnotically impossible to turn away from.

90
Film.com
Peter Brunette
Irrespective of whether Pollock, as a movie, is any good -- and it is very, very good -- it's clear that Ed Harris was born to play the lead role.

90
Variety
David Rooney
Distinguished by its quiet, intelligent, admirably restrained approach and by two finely wrought performances from Harris and Marcia Gay Harden in the leading roles.

90
LA Weekly
F. X. Feeney
What Harris extracts from himself is nothing less than a psychological nude scene, sustained across two hours.

89
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Pollock is that rare breed, a biopic that makes you want to learn more about its subject, as much as you can, as fast as you can.

88
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Like its subject, Pollock is a messy creation, but one whose depth of commitment and high attack keeps it on track.
88
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
Harris convincingly creates one "Pollock" after another over the course of the movie.

88
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Harris and Harden have real on-screen sympatico, in their nasty battles and good times alike.

83
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
The resulting film is a labor of love with all the strengths and weaknesses you might expect from such a designation.

80
Film.com
Robert Horton
Like other aspects of this film, the image may be a little too perfect, a little too careful.

80
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Stands out among creative bio-pics for an ability to show art being made in a way that's as realistic and exciting as it's ever been on screen.

80
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
May be the first movie about a painter to transcend the gushy clichés found in movies that try to unravel the mysteries of artistic creation.

80
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Ed Harris, who plays Pollock and makes his debut as a director - doing both jobs superbly, by the way - is angst incarnate.

80
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
As good as Harris is, though, it's Harden's performance that sticks with you long after you've seen the movie. She understands what Krasner must have known intuitively. Greatness comes not from cleaning up messes, but from allowing them to be made in the first place.

80
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
The movie's best moments evoke the thrill of doing something new. Pollock convincingly retails the beauty and originality of the painter's best work -- it may not be an intellectual adventure, but it does represent one.

75
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
For all the praise that has been heaped upon it, is a quasisatisfying, half realized vision.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Wesley Morris
Renders the juicy bits of the artist's life in two hours of pulsing highlights that suggest a man who never really had any emotional or psychic downtime.

75
Miami Herald
Elisa Turner
Some of the most riveting passages of the film are Harris slathering skeins of rich color, dipped fresh from cans of house paint, onto canvases stretched out on the floor.

75
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
The movie is enriched by its fine acting and by its creative respect for an innovator whose influence still permeates contemporary art.

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
It is a difficult and demanding movie, one that rewards the persevering moviegoer just as Pollock's difficult and demanding paintings ultimately reward the steadfast.

75
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Masterful acting.

70
Newsweek
Jeff Giles
Pollock can be clunky and TV-movie-ish. Still, Harris gives a fiery, convincing performance.
70
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Several startling depictions of the artist at work make you forget, if only temporarily, the serious shortcomings of the script.
63
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
Truth is, one can probably tell as much about Jackson Pollock the man by looking at his paintings than by watching this movie.
63
Mr. Showbiz
Michael Atkinson
The dilemma is simple: Living, making art, and then dying does not constitute much of a story.

63
USA Today
Mike Clark
The movie falls short of achieving its apparent goal: being the "Raging Bull" of the art world.
60
Slate
David Edelstein
I don't know what Pollock is supposed to be about, but as it stands—by default—it's the most blood-freezing Jewish-mother nightmare ever filmed. Pollock would give Woody Allen the willies.

60
Dallas Observer
Bill Gallo
A reasonably entertaining -- and occasionally very moving -- picture.

50
TV Guide
Ken Fox
A smart but disappointingly conventional portrait of an artist who had little use for convention.


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