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By Stephen Holden (1,707) for The New York Times (9,847) on 07 May 2014

As this strained, foul-mouthed exercise in gallows humor proceeds, God’s Pocket sustains a facade of meanspirited deadpan comedy…

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By Robin Clifford (1,670) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 07 May 2014

Sometimes God's Pocket is funny, sometimes serious and always uneven in its balance of the two…

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By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Orange County Register (218) on 07 May 2014

God's Pocket, despite its tiptop cast, fails to sustain its comedy or drama. It becomes, at best, a piece of sardonic anthropology…

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By Chris Barsanti (896) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 07 May 2014

There's not a moment in the film when Slattery doesn't convey with absolute clarity what each character is about and where they fit in their…

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By Kyle Smith (1,916) for New York Post (6,650) on 06 May 2014

As for Hoffman, the shambling Everyman naturalism he shows here gives God’s Pocket an added elegiac layer that makes its bitter ironies that…

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By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 06 May 2014

The performance, one of Hoffman’s last, is unostentatious, but sensitive. Hoffman inhabited lifelong losers better than any other actor…

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By Alonso Duralde (1,351) for TheWrap (3,203) on 06 May 2014

These characters and their dilemmas could be the stuff of great, or at least good, drama, but Slattery's insistence on accentuating their sorrows…

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By Rex Reed (1,506) for New York Observer (1,400) on 06 May 2014

There’s nothing remarkable or even remotely intriguing about the dyspeptic gang of submental sad sacks in this dull, flat fiasco…

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By Michael Nordine (446) for Village Voice (8,525) on 05 May 2014

The story…

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By Robert Cameron Fowler (5) for Indiewire (3,631) on 04 May 2014

The numerous belly laughs are undermined by jarring flashes of darkness that never organically sync with the plot…

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By Nick Prigge (37) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 May 2014

Throughout, it becomes difficult to know whether we're meant to empathize with these characters or laugh at them…

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By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 17 Apr 2014

The film only intermittently displays the snap, precision and stylistic smarts a mixed-tone project like this requires; a half-good effort…

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By Amber Wilkinson (674) for The Telegraph (1,120) on 17 Apr 2014

We are encouraged to find these people stupidly brutal or comedic without being given the slightest idea as to why they might be that way…

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By Cory Everett (35) for The Playlist (3,871) on 01 Feb 2014

The film is almost unrepentantly nasty towards its characters…

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By Eric D. Snider (2,489) for GeekNation (86) on 28 Jan 2014

If Slattery can make something even marginally watchable out of these dismal prospects, just think what he could do with a more human and well-developed…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Variety (12,700) on 19 Jan 2014

John Slattery makes a wobbly transition into feature filmmaking with this drab and uninvolving dark comedy…

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