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Three Peaks Reviews
It is incredibly effective... [director Jan Zabeil] really sets you up.
| Oct 2, 2019
The harsh, forbidding environment naturally lends an air of danger, and Zabeil confidently, quietly winds the suspense around the potential breaking point...
| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 5, 2019
It's said that good things come in threes, a theory German filmmaker Jan Zabiel unwittingly disproves in "Three Peaks," his thin-aired family drama in which three quickly becomes tri-ing -- or, tiring, if you wish to flip those six letters around.
| Original Score: C | Jul 28, 2019
Despite a promising setup, Zabeil can't get his actors to generate a human tension on par with the impressive and potentially deadly surroundings.
| Jul 26, 2019
What results is a harrowing, entirely gripping high-stakes, high-altitude drama where microaggressions lead to macro-results.
| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 25, 2019
There's just enough closure to its inconclusive climax to allow you to relax, even if it doesn't give you much to terribly ponder during the drive home.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 24, 2019
The payoff is barely worth the wait.
| Jul 24, 2019
The double impulse at the heart of "Three Peaks" is ultimately self-defeating.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 24, 2019
Three Peaks never quite reaches the dramatic peak that the movie's deliberate pacing and tense interplay seem to promise.
| Jul 19, 2019
Three Peaks features some glorious cinematography as this domestic drama plays out. The film may feel a bit slight at times, but it is often quite absorbing.
| Jul 19, 2019
There's more to the screenplay, and that's the beauty of Zabeil's work, introducing new perspectives on seemingly innocent behaviors.
| Original Score: B+ | Jul 18, 2019
Three Peaks ripples with a heady mixture of animosity and genuine affection.
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 16, 2019
"Three Peaks" is a dark little family drama, a ticking time bomb of a movie that is well made but never totally satisfies.
| Jul 11, 2019
Three Peaks is a thriller of a decidedly unconventional sort...A more clichéd effort would have succumbed to third-act fireworks as a reward for enduring such a slow-burn build-up. But Zabeil rejects predictable paths.
| Jul 1, 2019
This isn't your daddy's drama/thriller. It's a meticulously crafted film that, in its very self-disciplined way, is far stronger than movies that go for the emotional jugular from the git-go.
| Jun 28, 2019
Three Peaks is so thinly conceived and executed that, for the most part, it fails to justify its existence as a stand-alone feature.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 28, 2019
The uneven narrative momentum is redeemed by emotional complexity and a trio of convincing performances.
| Jun 28, 2019
Three Peaks seems to betray its characters for the sake of forced drama.
| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 28, 2019
"Three Peaks" has a placid surface, but Zabeil uses abstraction - with edits that elide information or play tricks with spatial perception - to deepen a trite scenario.
| Jun 27, 2019