A harrowing depiction of the Miracle in the Andes that course corrects several Hollywood elements that marred Marshall's Alive back in 1993. The crash sequence is more challenging, and the group's religious beliefs gain prominence.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 18, 2025

Bayona uses his many talents as a director to lead his team into a frightening and hopeful place in this survival tale of man against nature.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 3, 2024

J.A. Bayona's film captures the horrors of a plane crash in the Andes as well as the resilience of the human spirit.

| Jun 24, 2024

This is a hard movie to watch, but that's because it's an honest depiction of a harrowing ordeal.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 8, 2024

Society of the Snow rises above a run-of-the-mill survival story.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 4, 2024

Society of the Snow delivers a powerful narrative that transcends the screen, prompting audiences to contemplate the depths of human endurance and compassion in the face of adversity.

| Apr 2, 2024

As grisly as it is, given all the horrors and death and cannibalism, the story reassures us that the human will is indeed a mighty thing, and its impact on our desire to live can overcome the seemingly insurmountable.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 27, 2024

As big a part as faith played in their survival, Bayona also keeps focus on the fortitude and sheer luck that shaped this extraordinary and odds-defying tale of endurance.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 15, 2024

Bayona has become a worse director since he made The Impossible in 2012...

| Mar 8, 2024

While you’re in the thick of it, Society of the Snow’s horrific immediacy and narrowed and shrunken horizons of survival foregrounded against the limitless, imposing white of the Andean peaks, will have you on the edge of your seat.

| Feb 23, 2024

Bayona ensures this is now the definitive version of this air disaster.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 16, 2024

The movie could have used more surprises of its kind. Otherwise, Society is a movie I respect more than recommend.

| Feb 14, 2024

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| Original Score: 3 1/2 stars | Feb 13, 2024

“Society of the Snow” captures the details of this survival story, finding tests of faith and friendship at each turn. It’s an object lesson for Hollywood, that true-life stories can actually be true to life.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 10, 2024

From beginning to end you can’t help but marvel at the characters' resilience and perseverance to simply live, despite everything around them, from plunging temperatures to painful winds, trying to kill them.

| Feb 7, 2024

Magnified by Pedro Luque’s sharp cinematography, this stress-inducing film offers a sensory experience capable of accelerating your heartbeat and diverting your mind from minor troubles.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 4, 2024

[The characters] didn't pop out to me as individual personalities... but as far as the craft of this movie, it's exceptional.

| Original Score: 6.8/10 | Feb 2, 2024

I thought it was super well done, and it was very, very tense.

| Original Score: 8.7/10 | Feb 2, 2024

The struggle of those who initially survived the 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in the Andes mountains to remain among the living gets a gripping and emotionally compelling new telling in Society of the Snow.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 1, 2024

The film's big set pieces -- the initial crash, the subsequent avalanches -- deliver as much of an adrenaline rush as any action fan could wish. Even more compelling, however, are the quiet scenes of the survivors marking time in the fuselage.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 31, 2024