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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