Frozen is a tour de force, not because of exceptional performances by the actors, but rather the outstanding directing of Adam Green, who also wrote the script. The script gave Green a limited area within which to work, and he carried it off superbly.

| Jan 13, 2018

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Greens nifty framing, dawning-dread pacing, and fixation on corporeal deterioration proves sturdy.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 11, 2010

Green orchestrates all this with some skill but not too much gore. A minor tour de force.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 29, 2010

However much fun it is to watch, it's a lot more fun to pull it apart afterwards.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 29, 2010

This minimalist thriller offers the same endurance-test nightmare as Open Water, only here the imperilled characters are marooned on a mountain, and wolves substitute for the sharks.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 24, 2010

Fiendish, sweaty and tense as hell. One to watch through the fingers.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 24, 2010

The taut set-up is enjoyable all by itself, but it's the rising tide of three-way recriminations and despair that gives this film emotional clout.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 23, 2010

It's a stunt film that only just overcomes the challenge it's set itself.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 23, 2010

Taut and tense, it's an effective suspence-horror.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 22, 2010

Adam Green's taut, toe-curling survival thriller is better than it should be: the concept and the characters' behaviour are mostly plausible, the script is dark and funny, the acting is adequate, and the wildlife scenes are convincing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 22, 2010

What would you do, suspended 40 feet above hard-packed snow, with only the wolves for company if you dare to jump?

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 22, 2010

Perfect movie to enjoy with friends, not because it's too frightening to see solo, but because it evokes a WTF/OMG reaction that's awkward to share that with a stranger.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 14, 2010

There's not enough here for 90 minutes.

Full Review | Feb 8, 2010

Preposterous by the end, but Green provides enough formal polish to the film to make it at least partially engaging.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 6, 2010

Frozen is good for five minutes of "What would you do if?" games. Then it's just stiff as a board.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 5, 2010

A stuck chairlift just doesn't exert the same primal terror as a roiling sea, and to make up the difference, Green would need a better cast and sharper dialogue than he has here.

| Feb 5, 2010

In those moments when we (and the characters) are paralyzed between bad decisions, we're as stiff with tension as an icicle.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 5, 2010

Another date movie-horror flick designed to scare tentative couples into each other's arms.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 5, 2010

Tthe script is clunky, the acting strained. Too bad. Underlying the life-and-death thriller are notions about the ways coupledom changes and challenges friendships.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 5, 2010