With his roles in Eyes Wide Shut, A Civil Action, and Tootsie (which he also directed), Pollack has cultivated a fascinating persona that effortlessly joins cuddly old man machismo with an unapologetic sliminess. (filmfreakcentral.net)
Oscar's nicknamed «tadpole» by the doorman of his parent's penthouse ivory tower, and the peculiarity of the appellation is that it encapsulates the embryonic sliminess of the film itself. (filmfreakcentral.net)
Who better embodies sliminess and living death, a blood - sloppily reptilian zombie or Robert Mugabe? (thelodgegallery.com)