One often feels with Green that he is on the verge of making an important film, of bringing poetry and realism together in an interesting manner.

| Mar 5, 2021

Tragedy is juxtaposed, clumsily, with stories from the so-called life of a high school student, as if the plot had sprained something in the course of its transition from Stewart O'Nan's novel to the screen.

| Sep 5, 2018

[Snow Angels] is aching with cross-purposes and shimmering with flirty jokes.

| Aug 22, 2017

It starts out as a lyrically beautiful work, but goes amiss at the halfway mark and concludes with a misplaced harrowing finale.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 28, 2015

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 4, 2011

There's still a lot of excellent work in Snow Angels. The first hour is utterly engrossing. But there's also a lot of wasted potential, which is too bad.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Mar 30, 2011

Frequently perched between the poetic and the twee, Green has been bitten by the Whimsy Bug

| Aug 27, 2009

So when the film's moment of horror arrives, it's not with suspense but instead the sort of dully anticipatory inevitability that drains as much energy from the story as from the audience.

| Feb 2, 2009

Impressive for the mood it creates, the film may not totally satisfy, but the characters are richly depicted and reflect the snowy winter chill that surrounds them

| Oct 25, 2008

Hopefully, one of these days, Green will be bold enough to make a movie where nothing happens, where conversation is both his means and his end.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 18, 2008

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 18, 2008

David Gordon Green is a very unique filmmaker.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 18, 2008

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.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 8, 2008

Powerful performances all around, but too many tangled and twisted family trees. Scorecard, please.

| Sep 22, 2008

Rockwell, who brought a sense of desperate unease to his roles in 'The Assassination of Jesse James' and 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' does the same here, with results that are at once frightening and pathetically sad.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 17, 2008

Every so often, a movie comes along that knocks the wind out of you. Snow Angels is one of them.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 15, 2008

...the film's positive attributes were for me not quite enough to make up for the movie's unrelentingly grim tone.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Sep 13, 2008

It feels sort of like a poor man's version of American Beauty, stripped of all the good parts and devoted only to a low-budget wallowing in misery that will leave you shell-shocked and depressed on your way out of the theater.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Sep 8, 2008

It's a hard movie to sit through at times, but if you're a fan of the actors, especially Rockwell, I believe you will find it a rewarding experience.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 18, 2008