"Pickings is captivating, intense, complicated and violent. It is everything expected from a great mobster movie, however, it is so much more than that. In a genre that is predominantly saturated with strong and complicated male characters, roles for women tend to be more vapid and transparent, usually reserved for the clueless wife. Maybe she knew, maybe she didn’t, but that is usually the most complicated aspect to most female characters in mobster movies. Pickings showcased something different, something entirely unexpected. Women can be mothers and loving and fragile and scared, but they can also be bad and dangerous and cunning and fearless. Sometimes they can be all of the above, and that is what was so compelling about Elyse Price’s character."