A fresh, intelligent and thoroughly involving psychological thriller.
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12/04/07
First Snow (2007)
56 %
Reviews Counted: 68 Fresh: 38 Rotten:30 Average Rating: 5.8/10
Consensus:
In First Snow, an interesting premise gives way to a slow and tedious noir that adds little to the genre.
Runtime: 2 hrs 1 min
Synopsis: Jimmy (Guy Pearce) is a smooth-talking salesman who finds himself making a detour after his car breaks down on a desert highway. To pass the time, he pays a visit to a local palm reader, Vacaro (J.K. Simmons). Vacaro makes a few positive predictions for him, but then appears deeply disturbed by a... [More]
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Starring: Guy Pearce, Piper Perabo, William Fichtner, J.K. Simmons, Shea Whigham
Director: Mark Fergus
Screenwriter: Hawk Ostby, Mark Fergus
Director: Bob Yari
Producer: Sean Furst, Bryan Furst, Tom Lassally, Robyn Meisinger
Composer: Cliff Martinez
Screenwriter: Hawk Ostby, Mark Fergus
Director: Bob Yari
Producer: Sean Furst, Bryan Furst, Tom Lassally, Robyn Meisinger
Composer: Cliff Martinez
Reviews
Top Critic
I was beguiled by both the eerie moods and the striking compositions, which incorporate large stretches of empty space.
11/27/07
First Snow is an auspicious directorial debut for Mark Fergus. It will be interesting to see what he does next.
06/23/07
Brings little new to the genre apart from another outstanding performance by Pearce.
04/26/07
The film has some of the bleak inevitability of Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man, but without the compelling characters and oddball twists.
04/26/07
First Snow is a sharp thriller with abstract pretentiousness. The writers were clever enough to approach a simple philosophical question in a devious and brusque way.
04/23/07
A haunting neo-noir about a man told by a palmist that his karma is about to run over his dogma.
04/20/07
...the interest dissipates pretty quickly and the movie becomes a dreary plod...
04/20/07
The subdued ending might disappoint those hoping for a more lively denouement, but really, it seems just right for a tale as chilly as this one.
04/18/07
[The filmmakers] raise intriguing questions about fate and destiny, and they get a soulful performance from Pearce.
04/13/07
It's a film of great promise, but loses dramatic circulation the longer it spends time chasing its own tail.
04/12/07
Co-screenwriter/director Mark Fergus isn't able to build any palpable tension. And the fact that we're not really rooting for his protagonist to survive works against the material.
04/12/07
Takes a silly premise -- a fortune teller predicts imminent doom! -- and spins it into a thoughtful, intelligent story about fate vs. free will.
04/12/07
This is first-rate work from a talented actor who is fated to become a star.
04/12/07
In terms of the five stages of grief, Jimmy spends most of the film in denial and anger--understandably so--but it grinds First Snow into dramatic inertia.
04/09/07
... this one foresees a bleak future for anyone fool enough to look into it.
04/09/07
Guy Pearce continues his quirky, risk-taking ways with another very strong performance here.
04/09/07
Fergus builds suspense, especially in the first half of the film, but then he falls to assumptions and suppositions ...
04/09/07
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