God's Pocket

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Directed by John Slattery

United States, 2014

Drama

Synopsis

A guy named Mickey gets in over his head when he tries to cover-up the accidental death of his stepson.

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God's Pocket Directed by John Slattery

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It’s hard to gauge what attracted the Mad Men star and occasional director to Pete Dexter’s 1983 source novel, aside from perhaps the obvious period familiarity. This is a film infatuated with its own grim realism, yet its attitude towards working-class life feels entirely unsympathetic.

Adam Woodward

August 07, 2014

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Though it looks and moves like one of Lumet’s films from the 1970s or ‘80s, God’s Pocket lacks the liberal self-righteousness that defined much of the director’s work; in its pessimism, it more closely resembles later effortsBefore The Devil Knows You’re Dead (which also starred Hoffman) and the severely underrated Find Me Guilty.

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

May 08, 2014

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The film is neither particularly literary (despite occasional florid voiceover from a character who’s a writer) nor especially cinematic, and it doesn’t fully work as a stand-alone narrative. What it offers, in spades, is a precise, evocative sense of time and place, deftly suggesting a shared history among the colorful denizens of a vividly realized milieu.

Mike D'Angelo

May 08, 2014

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What are people saying?

Carlos Filipe Freitas's rating of the film God's Pocket
Carlos Filipe Freitas

The quality of these actors was wasted, and that was the biggest surprise for me, since I expected much more from this frustrating American drama.
September 04, 2014 04:17
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Jason's rating of the film God's Pocket
Jason

Slight, elegiac Americana sauntering casually, God's Pocket benefits from being in no way whatsoever strident or ambitious. It feels like it was made during and depicts a past era.
December 31, 2014 19:10
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Gregory's rating of the film God's Pocket
Gregory

No feel, no pace, even these terrific actors have troubling getting into a groove with one another. Regrettable misfire with bad photography and unsure tone shifting. Strives for "Friends of Eddie Coyle" and Lumet territory...gets nowhere near it.
May 28, 2014 20:00
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A47's rating of the film God's Pocket
A47

"Fuckin' people talk about everything." An uplifting romp about the fragility of a neighborhood and the humors of family life. A real entertaining action packed plot with colorful characters and whitty writing... Fuck this movie for just existing. "Last call." Thanks Phil.
April 26, 2016 05:15
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Cowboy Mouth's rating of the film God's Pocket
Cowboy Mouth

Fuck off, I liked it. Such a better send-off for Phil than that one where he has to have the German accent and essentially play Joan Allen in all the Bourne films
April 15, 2016 04:20
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dave gunn's rating of the film God's Pocket
dave gunn

I really liked this. Everyone struggles along with incurred debts, somethings on the side, local gossip, and violence. If you live in a poor working class neighborhood, these things are reality, and although this easily could have been an outright black comedy, it did a great job depicting these realities.
September 24, 2014 18:16
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Lu Who's rating of the film God's Pocket
Lu Who

2.5 // a definiçã de "cinema's darkest suburbs"
February 22, 2017 02:18
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MATTEO BITTANTI's rating of the film God's Pocket
MATTEO BITTANTI

Alas, it's empty.
September 14, 2014 03:44
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