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(1 - 17) of 17 OFCS Rating: 59% Rotten Page   1   C "It's a film of great promise, but loses dramatic circulation the longer it spends time chasing its own tail."   eFilmCritic.com   Brian Orndorf 2.5/5 "Fergus is blessed with a cast who can duck-and-weave with his shabby material."   Filmcritic.com   Chris Cabin "Scene for scene, Guy Pearce's performance opens up the movie's mostly regular ruminations on fate and free will."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs "Playing a human being unraveling and forced to peel away cocky outer layers to face his real self, Guy Pearce delivers his strongest performance in this film."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Donald J. Levit C- "It's quite admirable of Guy Pearce to try and eschew a Hollywood career, [but] if he keeps making films like First Snow..."   FilmJerk.com   Edward Havens B "Takes a silly premise -- a fortune teller predicts imminent doom! -- and spins it into a thoughtful, intelligent story about fate vs. free will."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 2/4 "A fate-obsessive film that would nearly register as existential were it not so resolutely low-key."   Slant Magazine   Eric Henderson B- "A neo-noir picture that won't entirely satisfy, but offers enough incidental pleasures to make it a moderately enjoyable trip to the dark side."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/5 "A psychological thriller with the message that knowing about your impending death has a way of focusing your life and making everything supercharged with meaning."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 3/4 "First Snow keeps audiences guessing - not necessarily about how the film will end but what path things will take to get there."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2.5/4 "Speaks to metaphysical mysteries best left unsolved."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth B- "Guy Pearce is two for two in 2007 playing American users whose actions come back to haunt them."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 2.5/4 "The story is familiar and the pacing much too measured for a slight tale of ineluctable fate."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh C- "In terms of the five stages of grief, Jimmy spends most of the film in denial and anger--understandably so--but it grinds First Snow into dramatic inertia."   Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema   Mark Pfeiffer "Pearce's usual intense dedication to being in the moment aside, there's not a lot of there there."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson "The burden of keeping this schematically plotted tale's pulse lively falls on Pearce, who instills Jimmy with a brand of cheery, motormouthed deceitfulness and egotism that even a mother would loathe."   Cinematical   Nick Schager 3/5 "As Jimmy, Guy Pearce turns in his most striking work since Memento."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski  (1 - 17) of 17 OFCS Rating: 59% Rotten Page   1