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29 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 88New York PostKyle SmithNew York PostKyle SmithAs 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.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe 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.
- 50Entertainment WeeklyKeith StaskiewiczEntertainment WeeklyKeith StaskiewiczIn 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.
- 42The PlaylistCory EverettThe PlaylistCory EverettThe film is almost unrepentantly nasty towards its characters.
- 40Village VoiceMichael NordineVillage VoiceMichael NordineThe story... could have worked well as a pitch-black comedy, but first-time director John Slattery (Mad Men's Roger Sterling) takes the material so seriously that the mood never changes much after leaving the funeral home.
- 38Slant MagazineNick PriggeSlant MagazineNick PriggeThroughout, it becomes difficult to know whether we're meant to empathize with these characters or laugh at them.
- 30VarietyJustin ChangVarietyJustin ChangJohn Slattery makes a wobbly transition into feature filmmaking with this drab and uninvolving dark comedy.
- 20The TelegraphAmber WilkinsonThe TelegraphAmber WilkinsonWe are encouraged to find these people stupidly brutal or comedic without being given the slightest idea as to why they might be that way.