Average Rating: 7/10
Reviews Counted: 106
Fresh: 87 | Rotten: 19
Though Pollock does not really allow audiences a glimpse of the painter as a person, it does powerfully depict the creative process. Harris throws himself into the role and turns in a compelling performance.
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Critic Reviews: 31
Fresh: 25 | Rotten: 6
Though Pollock does not really allow audiences a glimpse of the painter as a person, it does powerfully depict the creative process. Harris throws himself into the role and turns in a compelling performance.
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Artist Jackson Pollock revolutionized American painting in the 1940's with his exciting abstract canvases that used dripped and splattered paint in a manner at once excitingly physical and structurally intelligent. While Pollock became a heroic figure in the art world, his private life was nothing to envy, and this biography looks at both his professional triumphs and personal tragedies. In 1941, Pollock (Ed Harris) was a bitter and struggling painter when he met Lee Krasner (Marcia Gay Harden),
Dec 15, 2000 Wide
Jul 24, 2001
$7.3M
Sony Pictures Classics
All Critics (118) | Top Critics (33) | Fresh (88) | Rotten (19) | DVD (16)
Harris as an actor does justice to his long-term passion to play Pollock.
That altogether rare movie about an artist that works because it takes the art itself for granted.
A brilliant acting exercise for its incredible cast.
Just -- yes, just -- one more film about that perennially obdurate subject, an artist.
A difficult and demanding movie, one that rewards the persevering moviegoer just as Pollock's difficult and demanding paintings ultimately reward the steadfast.
A ruddy little movie with a seething core and a chill in its bones.
Wonderful movie, but for adults and older teens.
In the same way a tap dancer innately understands the percolating syncopation of all jazz music, Ed Harris identifies character rhythms and physical possibilities in drama.
Many films about artists indulge opportunities to depict people behaving recklessly. Harris seems more interested in showing us the nature of creativity.
Not a review, but an Interview with Ed Harris, who discusses Pollock among other roles.
Passion can easily lead to self-indulgence, and that is certainly the unfortunate case here.
You can decide for yourself if Pollock was a great artist. He wasn't such a great man, but at least he got a pretty good movie.
More than a straightforward biography charting Jackson Pollock's rise to prominence, Ed Harris' film is a penetrating study of the work ethic as it applied to one of America's great post-war painters.
A unique, well-directed and acted biopic concerning the troubled artist Jackson Pollock (Ed Harris), his relationship with his wife (Marcia Gay Harden), and how his internal demons cut a brilliant career short. While in some ways it is predictable, including a disturbing final act, the film contains a hypnotic quality
February 5, 2012Super Reviewer
Flawed, but interesting biopic of Jackson Pollock. Pollock, brilliantly played by Ed Harris is an eccentric abstract painter who revolutionized the art form. His art was simple, avant-garde and revolutionary. Ed Harris delivers a great performance here, and the cast starring opposite him are great here as well. The
November 14, 2011
Super Reviewer
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