An unassuming, but charming film...

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 7, 2024

Cold Weather is visually attractive, but dramatically bare. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 5, 2022

Cold Weather is more formally lovely than any mumblecore film I've yet seen (and I do have a modest taste for the genre, if you can really call it that).

| Feb 27, 2019

[Director] Aaron Katz... may not have much money to work with but has everything else - a sly sense of humor, a light touch with relationships, and a keen sense of visual beauty. These virtues are all on display in this dreamy shape-shifter of a picture.

| May 17, 2018

Katz is a triple threat, his editing every bit as important as his writing and directing for his movies' sense of place, shifting tonalities, and emotional vibrations.

| Aug 4, 2015

'Cold Weather' is an engaging and inventive act of genre-tweaking with no bells and whistles attached, and it represents a huge leap forward for an increasingly promising filmmaker.

| Original Score: A- | Jun 2, 2014

The movie is charming in spite of itself, even if you don't really care about the characters, the mystery or the resolution.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 22, 2013

Katz here shows himself to also be one of the few American directors of his generation (he is 29) with a strong sense of composition and movement, sound design as suspense, landscape as character.

| Jun 20, 2013

A satisfying movie altogether, although in a lot of ways it feels like a step backwards for [director Aaron] Katz, artistically.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 22, 2011

The result is pretty entertaining, though most of that entertainment derives from Katz's skillful exploitation of gumshoe formula.

| Dec 13, 2011

It's as if the audience is being tested: can you appreciate such slow pacing and focus on character, or do you need your fix of Hollywood plot?

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 25, 2011

Katz is content to hang back with his easily relatable characters, dipping his toe into genre tropes as a way of examining the mystery of their general twentysomething malaise.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 2, 2011

There are a few good moments. But not enough to make the journey necessary or justify the abrupt ending.

| Apr 17, 2011

Minimalist to the point of self-indulgence though admirable in its economy, Cold Weather is a very different kind of thriller. Think Brick by way of Arthur Conan Doyle.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 17, 2011

Cold Weather is not without its charm but it really does test the patience of the viewer.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 15, 2011

It's an advance on Katz's other efforts.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 15, 2011

Utterly delightful mumblecore mystery that plays like a slacker version of Sherlock Holmes and is by turns gripping, moving and laugh-out-loud funny, thanks to a superb script, engaging characters and terrific performances.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 15, 2011

Some will respond to the film's mumbling minimalism and there is something mildly heart-warming in seeing aimless individuals gaining a sense of purpose.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 14, 2011

Huh?

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 14, 2011

Andrew Reed's moody cinematography and Keegan DeWitt's percussive score reinforce the noir mood, as Katz plays delightfully droll games with genre convention.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 14, 2011