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Movie Overview
Cast
Kevin Kline
Sigourney Weaver
Joan Allen
Director
Ang Lee
MPAA Rating
R - For sexuality and drug use, including scenes involving children, and for language.
The Ice Storm (1997)
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OFCS Rating: 83% Fresh
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"Everyone is uptight, on the verge of breakdown, shrill and too aware of their various audiences. The film captures this sense of 'verge-ness' perfectly."
Philadelphia City Paper
Cynthia Fuchs
4/4
"One of the best films I've seen."
Cinemaphile.org
David Keyes
B
"To be admired for its icy observations of suburban life."
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
4/4
"
The Ice Storm
is perceptive about people, relationships, and human nature, and there's not a single moment in the entire 112 minute running length that rings false."
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
4/4
"Lee infuses the film with just enough humor to keep it from becoming unremittingly bleak, but the overall impact is harsh and caustic."
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
5/10
"A little too slow for my own jive."
JoBlo's Movie Emporium
JoBlo
"Disturbing and discomfiting,
The Ice Storm
is a slice of lonely, desperate reality that I hope I never visit."
Flick Filosopher
MaryAnn Johanson
5/5
"A rich and elegant drama."
eFilmCritic.com
Rob Gonsalves
4/4
"
The Ice Storm
is so life-like and real that if the settings were modernized, it would still be topical today."
Oscar Guy
Wesley Lovell
4/5
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Filmcritic.com
Christopher Null
4/10
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rec.arts.movies.reviews
Dragan Antulov
3/4
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Palo Alto Weekly
Jeanne Aufmuth
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Montreal Film Journal
Kevin N. Laforest
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Reeling Reviews
Robin Clifford
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