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75Rodriguez makes a promising debut with this unsentimental drama. If she keeps working on her screenwriting skills, she could become a filmmaker to reckon with.
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63Reeder makes a compelling lost soul, so that even the most soddenly moralistic moments are worth watching.
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63Occasionally becomes melodramatic.
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80Some of the acting may not be the best and many of the points aren't made with a soft touch, but damn, I can't think of another film about addiction with a more accurate view from the inside.
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60The story is predictable, but Reeder's performance is painfully convincing and the East Village locations so uniformly grimy that they all but weep despair.
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80It's about individuals, not about sensations. If the characters' backgrounds are not examined in detail, the movie still conveys an intimate sense of who they are and their emotional connections.
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50The opposition of Christian spirituality and the bad religion of drugs is enough to send you down to the feel-good bodega just on principle.
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50An earnest drama that's never quite as raw or moving as it means to be.
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40Though it isn't explained until the closing minutes, the title Acts Of Worship says a lot about Rodriguez's terminal weakness for the overwrought and faux-poetic.