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.
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03/22/08
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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.
Theatrical Release:Mar 7, 2008 Limited
Box Office: $255,147
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
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Reviews for Snow Angels
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.
04/11/08
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
this stellar cast uniformly captures both the flaws and the humor of their characters amid the pathos.
03/07/08
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.
06/18/08
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.
05/01/08
Yes, it's painful, but Snow Angels is so full of rich performances and characterizations that even gunshots can't kill its power.
04/03/08
A spellbinding film for the discerning moviegoer.
03/07/08
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
A drama that finds a delicate balance between the consolations of romance and the bitterness of its failure.
03/20/08
It's a crazy, unfathomable question. It's about faith.
03/21/08
Parts of it are amusing, and there are wintry images that eat into the mind. But it’s one of the most disjunctive things I’ve ever sat through.
03/03/08
Top CriticBy the time this intense, well-made drama has run its inevitable course you might well want to collapse in the snow and wave your own arms up and down in surrender.
04/02/08
...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
Blessed with wonderful material and cast, Green, who again shows his respect for the naturalism of real moments, steers clear of soap opera or familiar melodrama.
03/05/08
While often hard to watch because of its unflinching portrayal of the ugliness that love can take, Snow Angels succeeds because of the depth of its well-drawn characters.
01/20/07
In it's painfully accurate portrayal of characters struggling to make their way in a world that oftentimes seems cruelly unfair and confusing, Snow Angels rings resoundingly true.
03/06/08
On par with Little Children in terms of the writing and performances, including one of Kate Beckinsale's shining moments.
03/04/08
After the artistic and commercial failure of Undertow (his only genre film), Green is back on terra firma with a grim and harsh yet lyrical dissection of three emotionally intense relationships.
01/29/07
There's a certain beauty in the bleakness, in the stark, snowy landscapes, and in the characters whose lives are just as barren.
04/26/08
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