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Snow Angels (2006)

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67

Average Rating: 6.8/10
Reviews Counted: 110
Fresh: 74 | Rotten: 36

With fine acting and considerable emotional depth, Snow Angels aptly captures the highs, and especially the lows of human relationships.

68

Average Rating: 7/10
Critic Reviews: 34
Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 11

With fine acting and considerable emotional depth, Snow Angels aptly captures the highs, and especially the lows of human relationships.

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Average Rating: 3.5/5
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Director/screenwriter David Gordon Green adapts Stewart O'Nan's popular novel to the screen in this feature, which tells the parallel tales of a teenager named Arthur (Michael Angarano) and his onetime babysitter Annie (Kate Beckinsale) -- whose turbulent relationship with her estranged husband, Glenn (Sam Rockwell), leads the small-town waitress down a troubled path. Arthur is a high-school student from a dysfunctional family, and does everything in his power to avoid hanging around the house

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David Gordon Green

Sep 16, 2008

$0.3M

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All Critics (114) | Top Critics (36) | Fresh (74) | Rotten (36) | DVD (8)

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.

February 2, 2009 Full Review Source: Film.com
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It's a movie that keeps its distance from the characters, so much that we can shudder at what we fear is to come but aren't really allowed to mourn the innocent trapped in this downward spiral.

April 24, 2008 Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel
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A perfect match of material and sensibility.

April 11, 2008
Miami Herald
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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.

April 11, 2008 Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | Comment (1)
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Yes, it's painful, but Snow Angels is so full of rich performances and characterizations that even gunshots can't kill its power.

April 3, 2008 Full Review Source: Arizona Republic
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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.

March 28, 2008 Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
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There's still a lot of excellent work in Snow Angels. The first hour is utterly engrossing. But there's also a lot of wasted potential, which is too bad.

March 30, 2011 Full Review Source: ComingSoon.net
ComingSoon.net

Frequently perched between the poetic and the twee, Green has been bitten by the Whimsy Bug

August 27, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion
CinePassion

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

October 25, 2008 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile
Urban Cinefile

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.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle
Austin Chronicle

David Gordon Green is a very unique filmmaker.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Entertainment Insiders
Entertainment Insiders

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.

October 8, 2008 Full Review Source: Window to the Movies
Window to the Movies

Powerful performances all around, but too many tangled and twisted family trees. Scorecard, please.

September 22, 2008 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze
NewsBlaze

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.

September 17, 2008 Full Review Source: San Francisco Examiner
San Francisco Examiner

Every so often, a movie comes along that knocks the wind out of you. Snow Angels is one of them.

September 15, 2008 Full Review Source: Aisle Seat
Aisle Seat

...the film's positive attributes were for me not quite enough to make up for the movie's unrelentingly grim tone.

September 13, 2008 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis
Movie Metropolis

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.

September 8, 2008 Full Review Source: ReelzChannel.com

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.

June 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Sin Magazine
Sin Magazine

Could they have made more of a slow, dull and boring film?

June 1, 2008 Full Review Source: WJFK-FM (CBS Radio) | Comments (10)
WJFK-FM (CBS Radio)

'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.

May 6, 2008 Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

Might be (David Gordon) Green's best film.

May 2, 2008

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.

May 1, 2008 Full Review Source: PopMatters
PopMatters

There's a certain beauty in the bleakness, in the stark, snowy landscapes, and in the characters whose lives are just as barren.

April 26, 2008 Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com
EricDSnider.com

There is brutality in Snow Angels, but little bitterness. Like sunlight on ice, its painful beauty glints and stabs the eyes.

April 25, 2008 Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Good meditation on class, but too grim for casual moviegoers and not poetic enough for art-housers

April 25, 2008 Full Review Source: Movie Habit
Movie Habit

Audience Reviews for Snow Angels

Stories about teenage love and a marriage that has all but disintegrated are interconnected in this drama.
Strong performances by Kate Beckinsale and Sam Rockwell highlight this indie drama, but the film's weakness is its inability to either reach the Altman Standard for interconnecting stories or link the stories with a common theme. The best that I can manage for a common theme is weak: I think the film suggests that relationships inevitably decay despite the grand optimism with which we enter them, a claim evidenced by the parallels between Annie and Glenn's marriage and their younger counterparts. But I feel like I'm doing more work than the film is in order to tease some semblance of sense.
Overall, this effort represents the dangers of trying to do too much and fit a whole novel into a medium that can't carry all the weight.
September 28, 2012
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Jim Hunter

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A Poetic film from director/writer David Gordon Green that does not not hold together as a whole, but manages to be grim and painful look into grief. Green has quietly become one of the better auteurs of our times. He seems to really understand his characters and truly cares about them. That is also the reason why his films are so effective and one of a kind. You do not just sit and watch these people. You live and feel with them. Snow Angels which is his greatest film to date, will leave a lasting impression on you most certainly. It is a film with a strong impact. It also has wonderfully claustrophobic winter-setting that creates a feeling of unease and strange beauty at the same time. And when it comes to acting it is hard to see better acting anywhere in these days. Sam Rockwell and Kate Beckinsale truly reminds us what great actors are made of. Snow Angels can be little unfocused at times , but you know that it has touched you in rare kind of way, when you notice returning yourself to its world and its characters over and over in your head long after the end credits.
January 7, 2012
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