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.
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Snow Angels (2008)
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Reviews Counted:29
Fresh:20
Rotten:9
Average Rating:7.1/10
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
Top CriticIt'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
Top CriticYes, 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
Top CriticThe 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
Top CriticDavid 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
Top CriticThoughtfully crafted but ultimately lugubrious, Green's latest only really connects when the director sticks to the small stuff.
03/21/08
Top CriticSo 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
Top CriticEnough with these meek, banal exercises, David Gordon Green. Hit me with the sledgehammer in your heart.
03/21/08
Top CriticIt'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
Top CriticThe 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
Top CriticSnow 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 CriticA drama that finds a delicate balance between the consolations of romance and the bitterness of its failure.
03/20/08
Top CriticWhat, 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
Top CriticWith 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
Top CriticDirector 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
Top CriticThe 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
Top CriticSnow Angels begins with a wink, but it ends with a sucker punch. And somehow this doesn't feel fair.
03/14/08
Top CriticThe 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
Top CriticDespite 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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March 14, 2008:
Powerful performances all around, but too many tangled and twisted family trees. Scorecard, please.
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