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Movie Overview
Cast
Sam Rockwell
Kate Beckinsale
Michael Angarano
Director
David Gordon Green
MPAA Rating
R - for language, some violent content, brief sexuality and drug use.
Snow Angels (2008)
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3/5
"For all its noble intentions and universal truths,
Snow Angels
is not a great movie. It's not a grand movie. It's barely a very good movie."
PopMatters
Bill Gibron
3/5
"There are about two or three different films fighting for control of the screen during David Gordon Green's powerful but flawed Snow Angels"
Filmcritic.com
Chris Barsanti
"It's a crazy, unfathomable question. It's about faith."
PopMatters
Cynthia Fuchs
3.5/4
"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."
rec.arts.movies.reviews
David N. Butterworth
3/4
"...the movie, buoyed by the uniformly strong performances and inclusion of several admittedly powerful sequences, ultimately comes off as one of Green's more consistent efforts."
Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
3.5/4
"In it's painfully accurate portrayal of characters struggling to make their way in a world that oftentimes seems cruelly unfair and confusing,
Snow Angels
rings resoundingly true."
TheMovieBoy.com
Dustin Putman
1.5/4
"Green doesn't seem to be charting a recognizable world, only the contours of his own mind."
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
A-
"There's a certain beauty in the bleakness, in the stark, snowy landscapes, and in the characters whose lives are just as barren."
EricDSnider.com
Eric D. Snider
B-
"Worth seeing despite its flaws and the deep depression it's likely to leave you with."
One Guy's Opinion
Frank Swietek
4/5
"A quirky coming-of-age drama set in a small town in 1974 that revolves around the mysteries of love, loss, and human yearning."
Spirituality and Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
2.5/4
"Director David Gordon Green gives us glimpses into the lives of the characters populating his canvas but there's a feeling that he's only scratching the surfaces of stories that have deeper undercurrents."
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
3.5/4
"Incisive, ferociously acted, relentlessly somber character piece by writer-director David Gordon Green features powerhouse performances by Sam Rockwell and Kate Beckinsale."
Big Picture Big Sound
Joe Lozito
4/4
"Close in spirit to George Washington and All the Real Girls, with quirky characters, a bittersweet tone and an effortless sense of time and place."
Montreal Film Journal
Kevin N. Laforest
C+
"...in the end the movie feels like tragedy propped up as art with overworked art direction and misdirected male actors."
Reeling Reviews
Laura Clifford
B+
"
Snow Angels
can painfully burrow into one's heart, but such is the cost of empathy, or any human connection for that matter."
Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema
Mark Pfeiffer
2.5/4
"Good meditation on class, but too grim for casual moviegoers and not poetic enough for art-housers"
Movie Habit
Marty Mapes
"Flails about in search of poetry."
Cinematical
Nick Schager
5/5
"A strangely exhilarating and undeniably powerful work of American cinema that is sure to go down as one of the very best films of the year."
eFilmCritic.com
Peter Sobczynski
"For all the misery and emotional mess of
Snow Angels
, [director David Gordon] Green finds resilience and hope in the kids and even in some of the grown-ups."
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
3/4
"Might be (David Gordon) Green's best film."
Charlotte Weekly
Sean O'Connell
8/10
"The most-flawed film by a tremendously important American director."
Antagony & Ecstasy
Tim Brayton
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