Child of God

"Franco has emerged with an extremely faithful, suitably raw but still relatively hemmed-in adaptation."

"It could have been so much worse; we wish it was a lot better."

"Make no mistake: There is nothing pleasant about James Franco's very fine adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's short, pitiless novel."

"Franco has finally delivered the goods with this great, grisly McCarthy adaptation."

"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."