The Pope of Greenwich Village

The film's central concern... is all too familiar, and director Stuart Rosenberg can't figure out a way to freshen it up.

"Pope" is one of the best buddy films made in recent years.

The wonder of this explosively funny, tautly dangerous movie is that it's without a single false note.

This is an actor's movie. In fact, Mickey Rourke is outstanding, and Eric Roberts, who is incapable of winning audience sympathy, turns in a super realistic performance.

A prime example of an excellent movie that could have been great. The hot acting and snappy script set a savage pace that leaves director Stuart Rosenberg in the dust.

After you see the film, certain aspects of machismo will be forever fixed in your mind, satirized and better understood.

This is primarily a genre film for those fascinated with Sicilian blood. But something about it gives it tentacles.

Gripping, funny-sad entertainment.

Director Stuart Rosenberg, who hasn't made a really memorable movie since "Cool Hand Luke" in 1967, apparently believes that screaming and gesticulating can cover a multitude of plot lapses, needless digressions and hazy strokes of characterization.

Rosenberg... has a superb cast, and he has drawn mostly strong performances, though he sometimes seems too permissive.