3/4

It's a hard movie to sit through at times, but if you're a fan of the actors, especially Rockwell, I believe you will find it a rewarding experience.

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06/18/08

2/5

Could they have made more of a slow, dull and boring film?

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06/01/08

3.5/4

'We love you no matter what your job is,' a character tells her son. That's a love that this very humanistic if dark film asks us to extend to everybody, even those whose sins invite outrage and disgust.

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05/06/08

3/4

Might be (David Gordon) Green's best film.

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05/02/08

3/5

For all its noble intentions and universal truths, Snow Angels is not a great movie. It's not a grand movie. It's barely a very good movie.

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05/01/08

A-

There's a certain beauty in the bleakness, in the stark, snowy landscapes, and in the characters whose lives are just as barren.

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04/26/08

90/100

There is brutality in Snow Angels, but little bitterness. Like sunlight on ice, its painful beauty glints and stabs the eyes.

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04/25/08

2.5/4

Good meditation on class, but too grim for casual moviegoers and not poetic enough for art-housers

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04/25/08

3/5

It's a movie that keeps its distance from the characters, so much that we can shudder at what we fear is to come but aren't really allowed to mourn the innocent trapped in this downward spiral.

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04/24/08

2/5

Snow Angels, especially in its overwrought second half, merely wallows in unearned sadness.

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04/24/08

3.5/4

(David Gordon) Green's finest film in four attempts to pop the hood on human nature reveals not just conflicted human engines, but at least one character fighting to keep the wheels from coming off.

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04/21/08

3/4

A perfect match of material and sensibility.

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04/11/08

3/4

It's well-made. Searingly acted. Potent. And by the time it was over, its climax realized at the water's edge of insanity and grief, I felt beaten about the head with sticks.

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04/11/08

C+

Kate Beckinsale is too good for any of the guys in Snow Angels and too good for this movie.

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04/11/08

2.5/4

[Director] Green knows how to convey a mood visually and develop tension with his camera. He just doesn't give people enough interesting things to say or know when to shut them up.

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04/10/08

B-

Worth seeing despite its flaws and the deep depression it's likely to leave you with.

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04/05/08

3/5

We find ourselves again in that classily downbeat indie-film world of American suburbia, where life has an archly banal quality and seething tensions bring about a tangible hush -- usually resulting in suffocated marriages and catastrophic violence.

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04/04/08

2.5/4

[Writer/director Green] has worked with cinematographer Tim Orr since his 2000 debut George Washington, but this time their trademark pastoral rhythms seem patchwork and the characters transparent.

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04/04/08

3.5/4

Why put yourself through such a sad movie, no matter how well it's made? Because ... movies this moving are rare birds that don't pass this way too often.

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04/04/08

2/4

It's hard to feel anything but frosty sentiments towards this melodrama, a rather chilly adaptation of Stewart O'Nan's well-regarded novel.

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04/03/08