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(1 - 25) of 25 OFCS Rating: 72% Fresh Page   1   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."   DustinPutman.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 "Frequently perched between the poetic and the twee, Green has been bitten by the Whimsy Bug"   CinePassion   Fernando F. Croce 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 7/10 "Green is a director who takes his time with characters, allowing their different sides to self-illustrate in naturalistic settings as he simultaneously paints their worlds."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen 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 5/10 "...the film's positive attributes were for me not quite enough to make up for the movie's unrelentingly grim tone."   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio 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 4/4 "Every so often, a movie comes along that knocks the wind out of you. Snow Angels is one of them."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan "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  (1 - 25) of 25 OFCS Rating: 72% Fresh Page   1