There is brutality in Snow Angels, but little bitterness. Like sunlight on ice, its painful beauty glints and stabs the eyes.
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04/25/08
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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
Good meditation on class, but too grim for casual moviegoers and not poetic enough for art-housers
04/25/08
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.
04/24/08
Snow Angels, especially in its overwrought second half, merely wallows in unearned sadness.
04/24/08
(David Gordon) Green's finest film in four attempts to pop the hood on human nature reveals not just conflicted human engines, but at least one character fighting to keep the wheels from coming off.
04/21/08
A perfect match of material and sensibility.
04/11/08
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
Kate Beckinsale is too good for any of the guys in Snow Angels and too good for this movie.
04/11/08
[Director] Green knows how to convey a mood visually and develop tension with his camera. He just doesn't give people enough interesting things to say or know when to shut them up.
04/10/08
Worth seeing despite its flaws and the deep depression it's likely to leave you with.
04/05/08
We find ourselves again in that classily downbeat indie-film world of American suburbia, where life has an archly banal quality and seething tensions bring about a tangible hush -- usually resulting in suffocated marriages and catastrophic violence.
04/04/08
[Writer/director Green] has worked with cinematographer Tim Orr since his 2000 debut George Washington, but this time their trademark pastoral rhythms seem patchwork and the characters transparent.
04/04/08
Why put yourself through such a sad movie, no matter how well it's made? Because ... movies this moving are rare birds that don't pass this way too often.
04/04/08
It's hard to feel anything but frosty sentiments towards this melodrama, a rather chilly adaptation of Stewart O'Nan's well-regarded novel.
04/03/08
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
The characters all share a sense of loneliness, sadness and impending doom. Like walking black holes, they are the types of people that you'd want to avoid if possible. [Avoid the movie too!]
04/02/08
The charming and natural performance by Michael Angarano [provides] a necessary counterpoint to Sam Rockwell's patented grandstanding.
04/02/08
By 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
This wonderfully distinctive filmmaker is suffering growing pains, trying to wrestle his meandering, oddball sensibilities into the requirements of conventional genre forms.
03/29/08
Snow Angels does nothing to alleviate the pall of depression that hangs over American movies.
03/28/08
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