Pollock
4,843
Drama
Ed Harris's POLLOCK is a moving portrait of artist Jackson Pollock, a leader of abstract expressionist painting whose work had major influence on the modern art movement. A serious alcoholic who was married to Lee Krasner, another prominent painter, the film illustrates Pollock's rise to art world fame in the last 15 years of his life, and his subsequent surrender to the bottle which brought his death in 1956. In its best moments, ... [+]
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United Kingdom | BBC | "A highly personal, rigorous, and thoughtful analysis of a truly troubled genius." | POS |
United States | 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." | POS |
United States | New York Post | "There are few more thrilling sights around than watching the great Ed Harris furiously hovering over a canvas in Pollock." | POS |
United States | The 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." | POS |
United States | 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." | POS |
United States | USA Today | "The movie falls short of achieving its apparent goal: being the 'Raging Bull' of the art world." | NEU |
United States | 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." | POS |
United States | The Hollywood Reporter | "Distinguished by its quiet, intelligent, admirably restrained approach and by two finely wrought performances from Harris and Marcia Gay Harden" | POS |
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