An accomplished, wrenching, satisfying drama of the highest order.
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03/20/08
Snow Angels (2008)
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Reviews Counted:106
Fresh:71
Rotten:35
Average Rating:6.8/10
Consensus: With fine acting and considerable emotional depth, Snow Angels aptly captures the highs, and especially the lows of human relationships.
Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Director David Gordon Green (GEORGE WASHINGTON) adds another carefully sculpted drama to his resume with SNOW ANGELS. Green deposits a strong cast in a snowbound Pennsylvania town for his fourth... [More]
Starring: Sam Rockwell, Kate Beckinsale, Michael Angarano, Jeannetta Arnette
Director: David Gordon Green
Reviews for Snow Angels
Thoughtfully crafted but ultimately lugubrious, Green's latest only really connects when the director sticks to the small stuff.
03/21/08
What, after all, is Snow Angels? It feels like a comedy at first and is often blackly comedic, but it also reflects a universe in which each human spins alone.
03/20/08
For all the misery and emotional mess of Snow Angels, [director David Gordon] Green finds resilience and hope in the kids and even in some of the grown-ups.
03/20/08
There are about two or three different films fighting for control of the screen during David Gordon Green's powerful but flawed Snow Angels
03/06/08
A spellbinding film for the discerning moviegoer.
03/07/08
'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.
05/06/08
Snow Angels, especially in its overwrought second half, merely wallows in unearned sadness.
04/24/08
Director David Gordon Green gives us glimpses into the lives of the characters populating his canvas but there's a feeling that he's only scratching the surfaces of stories that have deeper undercurrents.
03/20/08
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.
04/11/08
So when the film's moment of horror arrives, it's not with suspense but instead the sort of dully anticipatory inevitability that drains as much energy from the story as from the audience.
02/02/09
The most-flawed film by a tremendously important American director.
03/25/08
A film that's not shy about generating emotional pain and a great sadness, in part by bringing instability to the blowing point.
02/27/08
The charming and natural performance by Michael Angarano [provides] a necessary counterpoint to Sam Rockwell's patented grandstanding.
04/02/08
A quirky coming-of-age drama set in a small town in 1974 that revolves around the mysteries of love, loss, and human yearning.
03/07/08
Snow Angels will please steadfast [David Gordon] Green fans, even if its star power makes it seem as if he's been inching toward the mainstream all along.
03/21/08
Top CriticThis wonderfully distinctive filmmaker is suffering growing pains, trying to wrestle his meandering, oddball sensibilities into the requirements of conventional genre forms.
03/29/08
By the time this intense, well-made drama has run its inevitable course you might well want to collapse in the snow and wave your own arms up and down in surrender.
04/02/08
While often hard to watch because of its unflinching portrayal of the ugliness that love can take, Snow Angels succeeds because of the depth of its well-drawn characters.
01/20/07
Top CriticThe beautiful outdoor photography extends [director] Green's fascination with nature as a realm of beauty and danger, a place where men, women and children alike experience their final reckonings.
01/24/07
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September 22, 2008:
Powerful performances all around, but too many tangled and twisted family trees. Scorecard, please. 
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Powerful performances all around, but too many tangled and twisted family trees. Scorecard, please.
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