CRITIC REVIEWS FOR ALMOST HOLY (CROCODILE GENNADIY)
The promise of more keeps us engaged and the absence of it disappoints. This is too bad because when it works it is captivating.
Chuck Bowen:
Steve Hoover's documentary affords one an unusually intimate glance at the collapsed infrastructure of the former Soviet Union.
Nick Schager:
Hoover's style seems equally fit for a bleak documentary, suspenseful thriller, black comedy, dystopian sci-fi nightmare and grisly horror film.
Jennie Kermode:
In the midst of this struggle come moments of extraordinary beauty.
Roger Moore:
A charismatic subject sympathetically portrayed in a structurally clumsy documentary.
David N. Butterworth:
All Hail the Republic of Pilgrim!
Cynthia Fuchs:
No one can argue with Gennadyi's rousing effectiveness a performer, even as his exhortations can be both galvanizing and haranguing
Joshua Rothkopf:
Steve Hoover's outraged documentary follows pastor Gennadiy Mokhnenko, a furiously committed intervener who drags drug-addicted kids into clinics and confronts the pharmacists who sell them codeine.
Aaron Hillis:
The best superhero vigilante movie of the year.
Steve Dollar:
Steve Hoover's documentary boasts a colorful and controversial subject, who strides through the squalor to an Atticus Ross score.
Fionnuala Halligan:
A powerful, meaty documentary.
Casey Cipriani:
There have been numerous criticisms of Mokhnenko's tactics over the years... But one has to wonder: if Hoover's side shows a man striving to ensure that children no longer die in the streets from drug addiction, who's on the other side?
Sheri Linden:
[A] handsomely shot, sometimes harrowing doc.
Edward Johnson-Ott:
Crocodile Gennadiy is the powerful sophomore documentary by Steve Hoover