Pollock

Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: December 15, 2000

8.0	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 70 Ratings

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MichaelF.Aug 8, 2001

This is a great film. From beginning to end it never really slows. Ed Harris is unbelievable as an actor and director! Harden completely deserved that Oscar! A must-see!

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RobertH.Feb 26, 2001

I liked this film but don't believe that it avoided the cliches as much as several reviewers did.

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phazel45Jun 28, 2013

Mesmerizing. Although I'm an art lover, Pollock was not one of my favorites. After watching the film, I finally "get" him. Ed Harris has done an amazing job as acting and directing. I absolutely believed I was watching Pollock himself.Mesmerizing. Although I'm an art lover, Pollock was not one of my favorites. After watching the film, I finally "get" him. Ed Harris has done an amazing job as acting and directing. I absolutely believed I was watching Pollock himself. Marcia Gay Harden is wonderful as his wife, Lee Krasner. The acting and directing throughout is superb. Pollock sober was a sweetheart; Pollock drunk was a monster. Unfortunately, the monster prevailed. The final scene, in which an extremely intoxicated Pollock drives his car faster and faster, despite the pleas and screams of his girlfriend and her friend, was compelling. Pollock is obviously released from all his pain, and in a dream-like trance crashes the car, and one understands that he has perished. That scene is distressingly attractive, making his death seem like Nirvana instead of the sordid reality. (His girlfriend survives, although her friend is killed, but the film shows us nothing after the car crashes.) This may be one of the best films I have ever seen.… Expand

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geewahJan 21, 2021

Not a bad biopic. Shame it's pretty conventional, which is the opposite to how Pollock worked and lived.

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