
Variety
Writer-director Nick Cassavetes' sprawling dramatization recklessly blurs the line between reconstruction and reality in ways that are admittedly interesting, if more than a little artistically suspect...
Full reviewA drama based on the life of Jesse James Hollywood, a drug dealer who became one of the youngest men ever to have been on the FBI's Most Wanted list. Sort of like a teenage 'Goodfellas', where all the bad guys are wimps? Watch out for J-Dog Justin Timberlake, he's franchising & acting now.
Writer-director Nick Cassavetes' sprawling dramatization recklessly blurs the line between reconstruction and reality in ways that are admittedly interesting, if more than a little artistically suspect...
Full reviewDon't be fooled by the presence of some pretty-boy actors: Alpha Dog is a gritty, gut-wrenching and disturbing film...
Full reviewAt its best though, the film offers a pointed critique of a youth culture that views someone like Jesse James Hollywood as a person to emulate...
Full reviewIn a film with several over-the-top characters bordering on camp, Timberlake's Frankie is the only one who approaches three dimensions, adept at convincingly dishing out some of the movie's disturbing violence as well as registering subtle shifts in Frankie's allegiance...
Full reviewIn his best film to date, Nick Cassavetes directs with ferocious energy, taking scenes past their logical stopping points and pushing his actors (particularly Foster, who can be as terrifying as Edward Norton in "American History X") to, but never over, the precipice of absurdity...
Full reviewCassavetes throws in everything he can recycle to grab a core-demo viewer -- slutty teens making out, blaring rock music, guns, split screens.
Full reviewAlpha Dog is available to stream in New Zealand now on Google Play and Apple TV.
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