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Cook County has not been reviewed by Broad National Press
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: WEAK "...has a grimy, redneck authenticity... [but] what we need is for the writer and director, David Pomes, to wallow less in aimless dialogue and lowlife sordidness. What we need is a point." (Read the full review...) 239 words, 12/16/11 Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: POOR (cg) "...overcooked... there's rarely a point when we believe in any of these characters, the bleakly romanticized setting or their increasingly ugly story." (Read the full review...) 148 words, 12/16/11 Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times: FAIR "...writer-director David Pomes takes a confident dive into dicey waters to track a grim tale of a crystal meth-addicted family. Unfortunately, strong performances and authentic atmosphere can't quite mask a herky-jerky storyline lacking a distinct center." (Read the full review...) 241 words, 12/16/11 Kyle Smith, New York Post: POOR (cg) "Depravity and addiction can be dramatic and fascinating, or they can be as they are in this week's indie filthathon 'Cook County'... where is the rehab facility for indie directors addicted to making ugly little movies about wretched little losers?" (Read the full review...) 281 words, 12/16/11 Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice/LA Weekly: WEAK "...a dysfunctional family melodrama set amid the chaos of a family home/meth lab in East Texas... Rather than viewing moral chaos from the eye of a storm, director David Pomes watches his movie blow off into the storm itself." (Read the full review...) 226 words, 12/14/11
Cook County has not been reviewed in Key Cities
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice/LA Weekly: WEAK "...a dysfunctional family melodrama set amid the chaos of a family home/meth lab in East Texas... Rather than viewing moral chaos from the eye of a storm, director David Pomes watches his movie blow off into the storm itself." (Read the full review...) 226 words, 12/14/11 Alison Willmore, AV Club: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...an evocative portrait of the drug blight that's infected swaths of our country, but not only does it not get beyond that, its almost-gleeful horrorshow quality comes with the tinge of exploitation. Misery begets more misery, but to what end?" (Read the full review...) 395 words, 12/14/11 Nick Schager, Slant: WEAK (cg) "...it's not a lack of focus that undoes writer/director David Pomes's story so much as consistent pointlessness.... The film ultimately resorts to the most tacked-on and desperate narrative gimmick conceivable: introducing a creepy pedophile who wants to play father-knows-worst..." (Read the full review...) 443 words, 12/11/11
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: WEAK "...has a grimy, redneck authenticity... [but] what we need is for the writer and director, David Pomes, to wallow less in aimless dialogue and lowlife sordidness. What we need is a point." (Read the full review...) 239 words, 12/16/11 Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times: FAIR "...writer-director David Pomes takes a confident dive into dicey waters to track a grim tale of a crystal meth-addicted family. Unfortunately, strong performances and authentic atmosphere can't quite mask a herky-jerky storyline lacking a distinct center." (Read the full review...) 241 words, 12/16/11
Joe Leydon, Daily Variety: VERY GOOD "...about a dysfunctional East Texas family torn asunder, and pushed to the brink, by crystal meth dealing and addiction.... impresses with spot-on performances, perfect-pitch dialogue and an overall sense that something bad might happen at any moment, unless something worse happens first." (Read the full review...) 622 words, 04/30/08 David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter: GOOD "Debuting writer-director David Pomes brings grimy authenticity and a sustained sense of dread to this bleak but well-acted drama.... trains an unblinking gaze on the scourge of crystal meth afflicting rural America..." (Read the full review...) 621 words, 11/16/11 Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times: FAIR "...writer-director David Pomes takes a confident dive into dicey waters to track a grim tale of a crystal meth-addicted family. Unfortunately, strong performances and authentic atmosphere can't quite mask a herky-jerky storyline lacking a distinct center." (Read the full review...) 241 words, 12/16/11 Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: WEAK "...has a grimy, redneck authenticity... [but] what we need is for the writer and director, David Pomes, to wallow less in aimless dialogue and lowlife sordidness. What we need is a point." (Read the full review...) 239 words, 12/16/11
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