Yasser Medina Cinefilia Jun 8, 2024 6/10

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]

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Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Dec 26, 2023 2.5/4

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.

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John A. Nesbit Old School Reviews Apr 25, 2013 D+

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

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Joe Morgenstern Wall Street Journal Jun 18, 2012

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

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Nell Minow Common Sense Media Dec 27, 2010 4/5

Wonderful movie, but for adults and older teens.

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Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com Apr 19, 2009 A

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.

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Joe Lozito Big Picture Big Sound Jul 14, 2007 3.5/4

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Jeffrey Overstreet JeffreyOverstreet.com (Ghost.io) Jan 15, 2005 B+

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

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Christopher Smith Bangor Daily News (Maine) Aug 4, 2004

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

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Gerry Gallo Hollywood.com Jun 5, 2004 2.5/4

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Jeanne Aufmuth Palo Alto Weekly May 14, 2003 3/4

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John R. McEwen Film Quips Online Feb 8, 2003 4/5

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Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com Dec 8, 2002 2/4

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

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Ron Wells Film Threat Dec 8, 2002 4/5

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.

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Matthew Turner ViewLondon Oct 30, 2002 4/5

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Urban Cinefile Critics Urban Cinefile Oct 26, 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.

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Jean Lowerison San Diego Metropolitan Oct 21, 2002

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

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Margaret A. McGurk Cincinnati Enquirer Oct 15, 2002 4/4

If ever there were an artist to prove that the art is bigger than the artist, it was Jackson Pollock. Like him, this film embraces pain and chaos and self-loathing and returns beauty.

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Mark Halverson Sacramento News & Review Oct 10, 2002 3/5

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Peter Rainer New York Magazine/Vulture Sep 26, 2002

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

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