The film's central concern... is all too familiar, and director Stuart Rosenberg can't figure out a way to freshen it up.

| Oct 30, 2021

This is primarily a genre film for those fascinated with Sicilian blood. But something about it gives it tentacles.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 30, 2021

"Pope" is one of the best buddy films made in recent years.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 30, 2021

The wonder of this explosively funny, tautly dangerous movie is that it's without a single false note.

| Oct 30, 2021

This is an actor's movie. In fact, Mickey Rourke is outstanding, and Eric Roberts, who is incapable of winning audience sympathy, turns in a super realistic performance.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 30, 2021

Gripping, funny-sad entertainment.

| Oct 30, 2021

Director Stuart Rosenberg, who hasn't made a really memorable movie since "Cool Hand Luke" in 1967, apparently believes that screaming and gesticulating can cover a multitude of plot lapses, needless digressions and hazy strokes of characterization.

| Oct 30, 2021

A prime example of an excellent movie that could have been great. The hot acting and snappy script set a savage pace that leaves director Stuart Rosenberg in the dust.

| Oct 30, 2021

Rosenberg... has a superb cast, and he has drawn mostly strong performances, though he sometimes seems too permissive.

| Oct 30, 2021

After you see the film, certain aspects of machismo will be forever fixed in your mind, satirized and better understood.

| Oct 30, 2021

"The Pope of Greenwich Village" is an actor's movie and a good love story with a twist.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 30, 2021

We're diverted and occasionally delighted, but "Pope" lacks those final few inches.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 30, 2021

"The Pope of Greenwich Village" is a rollicking, high-voltage New York movie that, in its best moments, produces tears of laughter.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 30, 2021

"The Pope of Greenwich Village" is an unusual film to be coming out in June. No special effects or food fights, just a solid script and some wonderful acting.

| Oct 30, 2021

As intriguing and oddly likable as its two main characters...

| Oct 30, 2021

What the film lacks in imagination and drive it gains in rich character acting, particularly from those who look as if they've been pushed and pulled by New York life or just spent too long in its gutters.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 30, 2021

The performers are perfectionists and their work packs a wallop. But their characters are as annoying as gnats.

| Oct 30, 2021

The Pope Of Greenwich Village benefits immensely from Rosenberg's decision to film on location in Little Italy, which gives every scene a lived-in feel.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 17, 2015

Never amounts to much.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 20, 2008

Mickey Rourke at the height of his powers.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 2, 2007