First Snow (2007)
Average Rating: 5.9/10
Reviews Counted: 73
Fresh: 42 | Rotten: 31
In First Snow, an interesting premise gives way to a slow and tedious noir that adds little to the genre.
Average Rating: 6.2/10
Critic Reviews: 23
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 9
In First Snow, an interesting premise gives way to a slow and tedious noir that adds little to the genre.
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A man desperately tries to keep a strange prediction from coming true in this independent psychological thriller. Jimmy Starks (Guy Pearce) is a traveling salesmen who is in New Mexico on business when he crosses paths with a psychic. The psychic offers to read Jimmy's fortune, and quickly informs him that he will die before the first snow of the winter. Jimmy's girlfriend, Deirdre (Piper Perabo), doesn't think much of this prediction, but with the winter months on the horizon, this notion makes
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Guy Pearce
Jimmy Starks -
Piper Perabo
Deirdre -
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J.K. Simmons
Fortune Teller -
Shea Whigham
Vincent -
Rick Gonzalez
Andy Lopez -
Jackie Burroughs
Maggie -
Adam Scott
Tom Morelane -
Luce Rains
Roy Harrison
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All Critics (73) | Top Critics (23) | Fresh (43) | Rotten (33) | DVD (6)
The movie has a lovely paranoia about it that Pearce, as Memento and L.A. Confidential told us, is a master at conveying.
Top CriticA fresh, intelligent and thoroughly involving psychological thriller.
I was beguiled by both the eerie moods and the striking compositions, which incorporate large stretches of empty space.
A smart, tense modern film noir.
The film has some of the bleak inevitability of Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man, but without the compelling characters and oddball twists.
A haunting neo-noir about a man told by a palmist that his karma is about to run over his dogma.
Predictability hangs over Mark Fergus's skillful debut feature, but not enough to detract from the intensity of the mood, the rhythm, and the performances.
A first rate thriller, First Snow is about a man haunted by his past who revisits it in a bid to change his destiny. It's a terrific role for Guy Pearce, who ably carries the film on his shoulders
Thoughtful, bleak thriller about fate and fear.
The ideas behind First Snow are great, but the film is shockingly static and, pardon the pun, cold.
First Snow is an auspicious directorial debut for Mark Fergus. It will be interesting to see what he does next.
Brings little new to the genre apart from another outstanding performance by Pearce.
First Snow is a sharp thriller with abstract pretentiousness. The writers were clever enough to approach a simple philosophical question in a devious and brusque way.
...the interest dissipates pretty quickly and the movie becomes a dreary plod...
The subdued ending might disappoint those hoping for a more lively denouement, but really, it seems just right for a tale as chilly as this one.
[The filmmakers] raise intriguing questions about fate and destiny, and they get a soulful performance from Pearce.
Fate plays havoc with a salesman's existence in [this] bleak psychological thriller about life and death in the New Mexico desert.
It's a film of great promise, but loses dramatic circulation the longer it spends time chasing its own tail.
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