Acts Of Worship Reviews

Generally competent and contains the heartfelt and persuasive message that judging others is easy, but truly empathizing is hard.

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...just not all that entertaining...

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Rodriguez depicts addicts as a sea of agitated vultures haunting the streets...counteracted by character confrontations forced to move too quickly and predictable plot turns.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

Honesty, a great virtue, is insufficient to make a good film.

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Call me shallow, but the rest of us might prefer something a bit more, well, entertaining.

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Man, the life of a junkie sure does suck. I got that point fairly early in Acts of Worship, yet for some reason the movie kept telling me over and over again.

Full Review | Original Score: C-

Has all the hallmarks of a high-quality independent production, where real-life texture and genuine emotion more than compensate for lack of polish.

| Original Score: 3/4

There is nothing really new or particularly insightful here, and even though Acts is at least watchable, it begins to fade from memory almost immediately.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Rodriguez' view of addiction from the inside, and Reeder's warts-and-all portrayal of a junkie going over the edge, make for a fascinating film.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Rodriguez's film captures the grinding routine of street-level drug use with numbing precision.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

For better and worse, Rosemary Rodriguez's directing debut feels just like what it is -- a drama about addiction made by a recovering addict.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Rosemary Rodriguez makes a worthy debut with this troubling tale of a young druggie struggling to survive on the streets of the East Village.

| Original Score: 2.5/4

Despite its crudeness, the film has a number of scenes that are so real they hurt.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Rodriguez makes a promising debut with this unsentimental drama.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Digna's struggle with sellout guilt is way more interesting than Alix's boilerplate dissembly, but ultimately Digna's just a pawn in the moralist checkmate.

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Some 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.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

You'd be hard-pressed to find a better movie about addiction than this debut

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Ana's playing a Lower East Side druggie, who's riding on a seesaw through life. The problem is that this seesaw has two down sides.

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Full Review | Original Score: 4/5