One big chill. The only thing that moves with any purpose in this picture is the weather.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 10, 2019

Shot either in extreme, eye-swelling close-ups or in excessively composed, arty landscapes, I now know more about the blood vessels in these actors' noses than I care to.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 5, 2011

Good movie for adults and older teens.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 28, 2010

... it powerfully re-creates the history, captures the essence of Guterson's characters, and carries us through hypnotized by breathtaking cinematography.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Dec 6, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 20, 2003

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 8, 2003

...the movie is, for the most part, just unreasonably dull.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 12, 2002

Badly hobbled by an over-emphasis upon cinematic technique that obliterates the emotional undertow of the story.

| Aug 21, 2002

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 22, 2002

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 28, 2002

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 17, 2001

Hicks and cinematographer Robert Richardson give this interdicted love affair an emotional immediacy with the sheer brute force of their images.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 23, 2001

| Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 27, 2001

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jan 1, 2000

Snow Falling on Cedars is very rarely dull, very often poetic.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

The film is at its best in courtroom scenes and related sequences, because it allows (the director and screenwriter) to examine race-relations issues both during and after the war.

| Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Snow Falling on Cedars is a motion picture of great thematic and visual richness.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Triumphs on nearly every level.

| Jan 1, 2000

Plodding and self-serious.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000