God's Pocket's reviews
Media reviews
New York Post
"As for Hoffman, the shambling Everyman naturalism he shows here gives God?s Pocket an added elegiac layer that makes its bitter ironies that much more painful".
The A.V. Club
The performance, one of Hoffman?s last, is unostentatious, but sensitive. Hoffman inhabited lifelong losers better than any other actor.
Vulture
"Slattery adapted the book with Alex Metcalf and gets the tone just right. The film is damnably amusing".
The Washington Post
You might call it a black comedy of errors, but the humorous side of the film is less well executed than Slattery?s impeccable creation of a certain neighborhood feel.
Time Out
"The material isn?t excited or shaped toward any insight ? the Mike Leigh of "Naked" did this sort of thing brilliantly ? and the arrival of a sluggish investigating journalist (Richard Jenkins), himself a bar fixture and underachiever, doesn?t offer a valid counterpoint".
Indiewire
"The numerous belly laughs are undermined by jarring flashes of darkness that never organically sync with the plot".
Los Angeles Times
The script, written by director John Slattery and Alex Metcalf, drifts too quickly into blue-collar cliches, leaving its interesting collection of characters only half-drawn at best.
The Hollywood Reporter
The film only intermittently displays the snap, precision and stylistic smarts a mixed-tone project like this requires; a half-good effort is not enough where buoyancy and a sly-to-mean spiritedness are required at all times.
Roger Ebert
"This is a flat, boring affair".
Entertainment Weekly
"In one of his final roles, Philip Seymour Hoffman stars as a man whose no-good stepson is killed on a construction job, while John Turturro, Richard Jenkins, and Christina Hendricks round out a formidable cast that isn?t given much to work with".
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote