A biopic that features stellar performances by Ed Harris and Marcia Gay Harden, but whose surface, unfortunately, has bland moments and advances at a slow pace similar to that of wet painting drying on the canvas surface. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 8, 2024

Like too many other like-minded films, it assumes that a historical figure’s insufferable behavior automatically makes him or her a fascinating movie character. But there’s no faulting the performances.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 26, 2023

a plodding glimpse of the latter part of Jackson Pollock's life

| Original Score: D+ | Apr 25, 2013

For better and worse, Pollock is an Action Painterly picture, an ambitious work of ambiguous surfaces.

| Jun 18, 2012

Wonderful movie, but for adults and older teens.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 27, 2010

In the same way a tap dancer innately understands the percolating syncopation of all jazz music, Ed Harris identifies character rhythms and physical possibilities in drama.

| Original Score: A | Apr 19, 2009

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 14, 2007

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Many films about artists indulge opportunities to depict people behaving recklessly. Harris seems more interested in showing us the nature of creativity.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jan 15, 2005

Not a review, but an Interview with Ed Harris, who discusses Pollock among other roles.

| Aug 4, 2004

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 5, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 14, 2003

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 2, 2003

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 8, 2003

Passion can easily lead to self-indulgence, and that is certainly the unfortunate case here.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 8, 2002

You can decide for yourself if Pollock was a great artist. He wasn't such a great man, but at least he got a pretty good movie.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 8, 2002

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 30, 2002

More than a straightforward biography charting Jackson Pollock's rise to prominence, Ed Harris' film is a penetrating study of the work ethic as it applied to one of America's great post-war painters.

| Oct 26, 2002

Harris has created an enduring portrait of this man, self-destructive, violent and difficult, who changed the face of American abstract expressionism.

| Oct 21, 2002