Sam Rockwell and Kate Beckinsale are each as good as they've ever been as the central, troubled couple, and the rest of the cast also impresses.
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03/28/08
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
The writing and the performances are such that as things go from bad (sad motel-room affairs) to worse (a 4-year-old gone missing), the film's characters get inside your skin, your soul. It's enough to make you want to cry.
03/28/08
Snow Angels can painfully burrow into one's heart, but such is the cost of empathy, or any human connection for that matter.
03/27/08
There are no joyous moments to balance the heavy-handed dose of everyday reality some people are forced to endure.
03/26/08
The movie entertains, albeit not in a way that will induce you to tell all your friends.
03/26/08
The most-flawed film by a tremendously important American director.
03/25/08
...the movie, buoyed by the uniformly strong performances and inclusion of several admittedly powerful sequences, ultimately comes off as one of Green's more consistent efforts.
03/22/08
Snow Angels is an essential examination of dreams deferred through a darkness that lies dormant in the yin and yang of our vulnerable lives. While it's a difficult film to absorb, it's always absorbing.
03/22/08
Rockwell gives a towering performance, perhaps the best of his zigzagging career.
03/21/08
Writer/director David Gordon Green is a master at crafting natural dialogue and at selecting surprising actors to bring it to life.
03/21/08
David Gordon Green, among the most gifted of the young independent filmmakers, creates a mood that engulfs you in the lives of his characters.
03/21/08
Throughout, Green's command of time and place proves unfaltering, carefully unspooling revelations that surprise, enlighten and haunt to the bitter end.
03/21/08
Thoughtfully crafted but ultimately lugubrious, Green's latest only really connects when the director sticks to the small stuff.
03/21/08
So do the final 15 minutes negate the power of all that's gone before? Unfortunately, yes. Unless, that is, you're in the mood to embrace awfulness. In which case, rock on.
03/21/08
Enough with these meek, banal exercises, David Gordon Green. Hit me with the sledgehammer in your heart.
03/21/08
It's a relatively impersonal project for Green, though the performances are never less than genuine and the two stories unfold in graceful counterpoint as the movie hurtles toward a harrowing and heartbreaking conclusion.
03/21/08
The sabotage plotting, sometimes engaging dialogue, visual inventiveness, a distant soundtrack and some occasionally gripping performances only add up to a film that leaves one feeling as frozen as those snow angels.
03/21/08
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 CriticIt's a crazy, unfathomable question. It's about faith.
03/21/08
An accomplished, wrenching, satisfying drama of the highest order.
03/20/08
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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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