Rickman, sadly, can't rise above this dull, offensive mess of a film.

| Jan 11, 2021

A heartfelt but utterly predictable indie drama.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 22, 2007

It's essentially a vehicle for a dedicated cast, but occasionally it's more than that.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 6, 2007

Weaver makes Linda her own, alternating between off-putting brashness, engaging honesty and bursts of spontaneous, childlike behavior.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 1, 2007

Lack of dramatic intensity is all the more surprising considering the emotional clout of helmer Marc Evans' two best movies, the chilling Resurrection Man and scarefest My Little Eye.

| Jun 1, 2007

Overly forced, a shade too whimsical, but filling a void other words and other movies haven't the nerve or errant taste to confront.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 1, 2007

This slow-burning character drama never gets as emotionally involving, or persuasive, as the moviemakers intend it to.

| May 10, 2007

Modest but well wrought and witty, Snow Cake is full of unexpected moments and clever observations and, despite a sparse quality, makes a good case for the idea that you're never too late, or too far gone, to connect with or understand others.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 4, 2007

People who are different are magical! That's the takeaway lesson from Snow Cake, an awfully tidy, infernally sparkly study in skewed blessings, made manifest by Committed Acting from Sigourney Weaver.

| Original Score: C | May 3, 2007

The performances are terrific overall and the writing is pretty good, so just enough to recommend it.

Full Review | Apr 30, 2007

For every three eye-roll-worthy scenes, Snow Cake offers one that's genuinely funny or moving.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Apr 28, 2007

As hangdog and hammy as its leading man, this extra-thick slice of Canadian tragedy porn subsists on contrivances from other movies.

| Original Score: 2/6 | Apr 28, 2007

Moving but at times overearnest.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 28, 2007

This, apparently, is the kind of stretch our contemporary great actresses have to look forward to as they near 60.

| Apr 28, 2007

Snow Cake partly camouflages the banality of its concept with its meticulous performances.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 27, 2007

It is Weaver -- whom director Marc Evans uses for maximum shmaltz -- who is the shiny object dangled before our eyes. And she is certainly something to watch.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 26, 2007

Marc Evans' indie drama, from a script by Angels Pell (who has an autistic son), keeps sidling up to the brink of mawkishness, then pulling back so nicely into Weaver's rich, hard-headed evocation of Linda's limitations.

Full Review | Apr 26, 2007

Snow Cake suffers from the same faults that plague most Canadian films: It drones itself to death with the pace of a drunken ant, and the ending takes longer than to arrive than Christmas morning.

| Apr 25, 2007

Like I Am Sam, it is easy to laugh at Marc Evans's Snow Cake because sincerity appears to have had nothing to do with its creation.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 24, 2007

A slow-burning examination of disability and grief is enlivened by a top-notch cast and a gently witty script.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2006