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 double impulse at the heart of "Three Peaks" is ultimately self-defeating.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 24, 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

An exceptional film, well worth savoring.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 27, 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

The film ably plumbs the fears of a well-meaning man who tries his best to play by the rules of middle-aged courtship.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 24, 2019

A tense, gripping, expertly made three-hander that tests conflicting ideas of fatherhood in the crucible of a mountainside vacation.

| Jun 14, 2019

Director Drei Zinnen, with an assist from cinematographer Axel Schneppat, manifests the fears of this struggling family in every mountain, snow drift, and dying tree.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 16, 2018

The ambiguity of the final passages doesn't feel arrived at or earned, but imposed-just another touch.

| Sep 28, 2017