It's a fiercely concentrated work, totally committed, somberly truthful.

Harris as an actor does justice to his long-term passion to play Pollock. full review

Ed Harris has always been a great actor in search of a role that could match his haunted intensity, and in Pollock ... he finds it. full review

The movie's best moments evoke the thrill of doing something new. full review

Harris is always a good actor but here seems possessed, as if he had a leap of empathy for Pollock. full review

That altogether rare movie about an artist that works because it takes the art itself for granted. full review

A brilliant acting exercise for its incredible cast. full review

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. full review

A precise, deliberate movie, so carefully calibrated in its tone and structure that, as a whole, it ends up reading like a completely well-intentioned lack of guts. full review

Harris' Oscar-nominated performance is quite moving, making Pollock a better movie than the predictability of its story arc would indicate. full review

Like its subject, Pollock is a messy creation, but one whose depth of commitment and high attack keeps it on track.

Flat and uninvolving, flash cards from a life but with no life itself.

A series of flashy scenes that work on their own histrionic terms but add up to nothing you can't predict in the first five minutes. full review

This may not be exactly the movie Pollock deserves, but it's the one he got; and, reservations aside, it's pretty darn good. full review