Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

Manthast Absolutely amazing

Lucia Ayala It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

steveo122 Like a Bukowski poem set to music and sung by Tom Waits, a rancid, deep dark comedy of errors in an urban hell. An amazing ensemble of great actors. Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Turturro, Richard Jenkins, Eddie Marsan and many more of some of the finest drunks and lowlifes you'll see on film. Christina Hendricks, unfortunately, is out of place and out-skilled. The script walks with a limp and probably has a disease.

Martin Bradley Philip Seymour Hoffman's last film was this very strange blue collar drama set in the New York district of the title. It's closer to being a darkly surreal comedy than a drama, though the jokes seem to have been removed. It centres around the events, spread over 3 days, following the death of young lowlife Leon. He is killed by a fellow worker, an elderly black man whom Leon liked to taunt, but his death is passed off as an accident. Nothing about the picture seems 'realistic' except, perhaps, the milieu in which it is set.It's certainly well played by a very good cast but it also feels inconsequential. It was in part written by the actor John Slattery, who also directed, from a novel by Peter Dexter and is just too off-the-wall to be dismissed. It's a small picture that seems to want to be bigger and when it was over it left a somewhat acrid taste in my mouth.

movies-by-db I really enjoyed this film. It's a nice slow moving piece with colourful characters living their daily lives in their colourful neighborhood. It's indeed mainly quite a sad story about people that are bogged down in their routines and lifestyles, but it's also kind of quirky and bleakly funny in it's own tragic way. A simple story of what happened to.. that focuses on the people surrounding the "victim" and all the logistical problems that arise from the fatality.One can't praise Philip Seymour Hoffman enough, for in fact his entire body of work, but this is really the kind of film I like seeing him in. The character he plays fits him so well, it's almost painful to watch. A terrible, terrible loss. I cannot name an actor that would even come close to him.John Turturro is just plain sweet as the "partner in crime". He plays the kind of guy you would like to get to know, he's got something truly endearing. Yes the film is filled with wonderful characters, Richard Jenkins is perfect and probably has the most interesting role as a writer looking for, I guess, his life. Plus he has the privilege of playing some great scenes with the gorgeous Christina Hendricks. It would happen to me too, Mr. Shellburn.. Instantly!A sweet and sour story, a wonderfully acted chunk of daily life in a blue collar neighborhood, a fitting goodbye to a great actor. 8/10

mipablito Devil's PocketDevils Pocket (God's Pocket), is a snapshot of reality...whether we like it, or not. Love is not all around, as the MTM theme happily proclaimed, back in the 1970s. We gratify ourselves with drugs... we die tragically, and young... but before that, we strut and shout our moment upon the stage, trying to make good, against the fear, hatred, poverty, crime, misery and madness, that is OUR neighborhood. Perhaps every neighborhood.It's so easy to criticize (this movie). But never do we point a finger, at ourselves.