The Frozen Ground Reviews
Top CriticA taut procedural with atmospheric location work that traces Cage's clock-racing efforts to find evidence against Cusack ...
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
The movie's only fresh element is the wintry setting, which shrouds everything in a mood of weary fatalism. Otherwise, it's the same old, same old, efficiently discharged and utterly disposable.
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| Original Score: 2/5
The movie's late-night cable feel and skeevy salaciousness grinds everything to a snowy slush.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Although writer-director Scott Walker seems committed to not overly exploiting his lurid subject matter, the movie is just too dreary, disjointed and generically creepy to be persuasive.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
A vague and forgettable crime thriller that would have benefited from more character development or at least a grounding of the narrative in one central protagonist.
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| Original Score: 1/4
The Frozen Ground hits the familiar notes.
Hangs a tad slackly between thriller and procedural, but still holds attention throughout.
This is an unambitious, old-school thriller, nothing more and nothing less.
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| Original Score: 3/5
