As the first episode of a television show, let us say, Horace and Pete is too long, baggy, in need of editing, and could probably use a re-write. It lacks direction, in every sense. As a movie, let us also say, it's uninspired, a bit dismal. It's too short, its perspective too limited, and it lacks vision (again, in different senses of the word)... It's hard to avoid the admission that it is not, ultimately, a very well worked-out work of art. It's not great. But that's also what's great about it.
Aaron Bady
January 31, 2016