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Critics Consensus: Director Ang Lee revisits the ennui-laden decadence of 1970s suburban America with deft humor and gripping pathos.
Critic Consensus: Director Ang Lee revisits the ennui-laden decadence of 1970s suburban America with deft humor and gripping pathos.
All Critics (63) | Top Critics (15) | Fresh (53) | Rotten (10) | DVD (12)
The Ice Storm captures this place, this season, this garish and confused moment in history, with surgical precision...It's Lee's sympathetic detachment that gives the movie its paradoxical power.
A well-observed and deftly performed examination of upper-middle-class emotional deep freeze...
A thoroughly enjoyable blend of comedy and melodrama...
A remarkable film that takes us straight into John Updike territory, duplicating on screen exactly what the writer achieves on the page.
The best film about family so far this year. Just don't think Disney.
It's unfortunate that as capable a team as director Lee and screenwriter-producer Schamus should have become fascinated with such unpromising material.
Among its many virtues, 'The Ice Storm' keenly captures the sheer, visceral terror of puberty-of grappling with these urges, trying to do what you think you're supposed to, and lashing out when you can't.
I think one of the things [Ang Lee] really specializes in is ensemble pieces like this one.
What struck me about it was the fluidity and discipline of Lee's direction, the performances which captured so beautifully the confusion of that period of cultural and sexual evolution, and the compassion which I think is a feature of all of Lee's films.
Drug use and sexual content in Ang Lee masterpiece.
Beautifully nuanced, passionately performed, and terrifically realized piece of work.
Beautifully acted, refreshingly un-camp in its take on wide lapels and progressive rock and occasionally coolly moving. It's just that ultimately, there's less here than meets the eye.
It was hard to feel anything about any of the characters in this story. They were all encased in, well, in ice and maybe that's the point. But I wanted to FEEL a little of that quiet desperation. Then again, maybe the point was NOT to feel. Anyway, I'm glad we're not living in 1973 anyway. Key parties? Really? Looks like a total drag.This is what happens when people who have too much of a.) disposable income and b) time on their hands. Part of DVD binge my husband and I did in the famous unrelenting winter of 2014.
Super Reviewer
Ang Lee's subtle and sedate look at two families in 1973 Connecticut suburbia has a lot of lives of quiet desperation, longing, yearning ... for what? Nobody knows. The television in the background suggests that its out there. What? Where? Nobody knows.
Though I really dig the whole postapocalyptic end-of-the-world, freak of nature weather stuff, it was just too sapped of genuine emotion for me to care about this much.
Powerful and, at times, daunting. With the possible exception of Janey Carver (Sigourney Weaver), all of the characters have depth and purpose. I still think Rick Moody's novel lends itself better to the stage but Ang Lee and his exquisite cast manage to get the most out of the material.
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