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
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Frequently perched between the poetic and the twee, Green has been bitten by the Whimsy Bug Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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Impressive for the mood it creates, the film may not totally satisfy, but the characters are richly depicted and reflect the snowy winter chill that surrounds them Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
Hopefully, one of these days, Green will be bold enough to make a movie where nothing happens, where conversation is both his means and his end. Full Review |
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3/4 |
David Gordon Green is a very unique filmmaker. Full Review |
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7/10 |
Green is a director who takes his time with characters, allowing their different sides to self-illustrate in naturalistic settings as he simultaneously paints their worlds. Full Review |
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Powerful performances all around, but too many tangled and twisted family trees. Scorecard, please. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Rockwell, who brought a sense of desperate unease to his roles in 'The Assassination of Jesse James' and 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' does the same here, with results that are at once frightening and pathetically sad. Full Review |
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4/4 |
Every so often, a movie comes along that knocks the wind out of you. Snow Angels is one of them. Full Review |
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5/10 |
...the film's positive attributes were for me not quite enough to make up for the movie's unrelentingly grim tone. Full Review |
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5/10 |
It feels sort of like a poor man's version of American Beauty, stripped of all the good parts and devoted only to a low-budget wallowing in misery that will leave you shell-shocked and depressed on your way out of the theater. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Could they have made more of a slow, dull and boring film? Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Might be (David Gordon) Green's best film. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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A- |
There's a certain beauty in the bleakness, in the stark, snowy landscapes, and in the characters whose lives are just as barren. Full Review |
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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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