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

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

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

It's well-made. Searingly acted. Potent. And by the time it was over, its climax realized at the water's edge of insanity and grief, I felt beaten about the head with sticks.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 11, 2008

Yes, it's painful, but Snow Angels is so full of rich performances and characterizations that even gunshots can't kill its power.

| Apr 3, 2008

The writing and the performances are such that as things go from bad (sad motel-room affairs) to worse (a 4-year-old gone missing), the film's characters get inside your skin, your soul. It's enough to make you want to cry.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 28, 2008

Rockwell gives a towering performance, perhaps the best of his zigzagging career.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 21, 2008

David Gordon Green, among the most gifted of the young independent filmmakers, creates a mood that engulfs you in the lives of his characters.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 21, 2008

Thoughtfully crafted but ultimately lugubrious, Green's latest only really connects when the director sticks to the small stuff.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 21, 2008

So do the final 15 minutes negate the power of all that's gone before? Unfortunately, yes. Unless, that is, you're in the mood to embrace awfulness. In which case, rock on.

| Original Score: C- | Mar 21, 2008

Enough with these meek, banal exercises, David Gordon Green. Hit me with the sledgehammer in your heart.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 21, 2008

It's a relatively impersonal project for Green, though the performances are never less than genuine and the two stories unfold in graceful counterpoint as the movie hurtles toward a harrowing and heartbreaking conclusion.

| Mar 21, 2008

The sabotage plotting, sometimes engaging dialogue, visual inventiveness, a distant soundtrack and some occasionally gripping performances only add up to a film that leaves one feeling as frozen as those snow angels.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 21, 2008

Snow Angels will please steadfast [David Gordon] Green fans, even if its star power makes it seem as if he's been inching toward the mainstream all along.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 21, 2008

What, after all, is Snow Angels? It feels like a comedy at first and is often blackly comedic, but it also reflects a universe in which each human spins alone.

| Mar 20, 2008

With the sublimely moving Snow Angels, writer-director David Gordon Green has made the best film about parents, children and relational perils since Little Children.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 20, 2008

A great director shines a light into the lives of the ordinary; a lame one offs a child and pretends that's magnitude.

| Original Score: C | Mar 15, 2008

The plot becomes disjointed in the second half and suffers from tone changes. Still, the performances are compelling enough to make Snow Angels worth seeing.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 14, 2008

Snow Angels begins with a wink, but it ends with a sucker punch. And somehow this doesn't feel fair.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 14, 2008

There is hope in devastation, new chances for life in the passing throws of tragic death, and Green has all this and more on his mind as his story starts drawing to its close.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 14, 2008