A strangely exhilarating and undeniably powerful work of American cinema that is sure to go down as one of the very best films of the year.
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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
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
A drama that finds a delicate balance between the consolations of romance and the bitterness of its failure.
03/20/08
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
With the sublimely moving Snow Angels, writer-director David Gordon Green has made the best film about parents, children and relational perils since Little Children.
03/20/08
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
Close in spirit to George Washington and All the Real Girls, with quirky characters, a bittersweet tone and an effortless sense of time and place.
03/18/08
A great director shines a light into the lives of the ordinary; a lame one offs a child and pretends that's magnitude.
03/15/08
The plot becomes disjointed in the second half and suffers from tone changes. Still, the performances are compelling enough to make Snow Angels worth seeing.
03/14/08
Snow Angels begins with a wink, but it ends with a sucker punch. And somehow this doesn't feel fair.
03/14/08
Top CriticInstead of inescapable, the ending seems perfunctory and somewhat ridiculous. You don't feel the horror when we get to those final shots -- only relief that the movie is over.
03/14/08
A well-meaning, well-crafted drama.... The characters are nicely drawn, but at the end it's hard not to wonder just what the point was.
03/13/08
The film's success is due in large part to actors who are both faithful to all the social minutiae and seductive enough to keep you watching.
03/13/08
Top CriticDavid Gordon Green, I’ve loved all of his films. And the cast is just uniformly excellent here.
03/10/08
Incisive, ferociously acted, relentlessly somber character piece by writer-director David Gordon Green features powerhouse performances by Sam Rockwell and Kate Beckinsale.
03/09/08
Flails about in search of poetry.
03/07/08
this stellar cast uniformly captures both the flaws and the humor of their characters amid the pathos.
03/07/08
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
A spellbinding film for the discerning moviegoer.
03/07/08
Despite some foreshadowing in the opening scene, the film's change of key in the second half feels like a betrayal.
03/07/08
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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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