Variety
Franco has emerged with an extremely faithful, suitably raw but still relatively hemmed-in adaptation.
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Child of God
James Franco adapts Cormac McCarthy’s (No Country for Old Men) novel about a dangerous man with an antisocial disposition – devoid of a stable home or parental figures – who delves deeper and deeper into malevolence.
2013Rating: R18USA
DramaThriller
- Director:
- James Franco ('As I Lay Dying')
- Writer:
- James Franco
- Cast:
- Scott HazeTim Blake NelsonJim ParrackJames FrancoFallon GoodsonJeremy Ambler
Child of God / Reviews
The New York Times
Make no mistake: There is nothing pleasant about James Franco's very fine adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's short, pitiless novel.
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The Guardian
Franco has finally delivered the goods with this great, grisly McCarthy adaptation.
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Hollywood Reporter
There's a weird purity to the storytelling even at its untidiest, which enables Franco to remain true to the spirit of McCarthy's vernacular lyricism.
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