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Susan Stark, Detroit News: Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: That altogether rare movie about an artist that works because it takes the art itself for granted. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: The pleasure of watching these two superb actors [Harris and Harden] play figures of such stature without a trace of sentimentality is enormous. Read more
David Edelstein, Slate: A series of flashy scenes that work on their own histrionic terms but add up to nothing you can't predict in the first five minutes. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: 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. Read more
Steven Rosen, Denver Post: Harris' Oscar-nominated performance is quite moving, making Pollock a better movie than the predictability of its story arc would indicate. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Ed Harris has always been a great actor in search of a role that could match his haunted intensity, and in Pollock ... he finds it. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: This may not be exactly the movie Pollock deserves, but it's the one he got; and, reservations aside, it's pretty darn good. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: The movie forces you, as few of its kind ever do, to see the fruits and spoils of genius framed against the gritty, banal canvas of normal life. Read more
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: Harris as an actor does justice to his long-term passion to play Pollock. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Other than depicting his wild mood swings, there's not too much to this cinematic representation of Pollock. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Harris is always a good actor but here seems possessed, as if he had a leap of empathy for Pollock. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: A precise, deliberate movie, so carefully calibrated in its tone and structure that, as a whole, it ends up reading like a completely well-intentioned lack of guts. Read more
Wesley Morris, San Francisco Chronicle: A ruddy little movie with a seething core and a chill in its bones. Read more
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine: A harrowing film, impossible to 'like' in any conventional way, hypnotically impossible to turn away from. Read more
David Rooney, Variety: Distinguished by its quiet, intelligent, admirably restrained approach and by two finely wrought performances from Harris and Marcia Gay Harden in the leading roles. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: The movie's best moments evoke the thrill of doing something new. Read more