Edge of Winter

Name: Edge of Winter
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: August 12, 2016
Duration: 89 min
Rating: 50

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Vertical Entertainment | Release Date: August 12, 2016 | R

Summary: Recently divorced and laid off from his job, Elliot Baker (Joel Kinnaman) is desperate to spend more time bonding with his sons, Bradley (Tom Holland) and Caleb (Percy Hynes White). What starts as family day trip to teach his boys how to shoot turns into a nightmare when they become stranded. As they retreat to a desolate cabin, Elliot'sRecently divorced and laid off from his job, Elliot Baker (Joel Kinnaman) is desperate to spend more time bonding with his sons, Bradley (Tom Holland) and Caleb (Percy Hynes White). What starts as family day trip to teach his boys how to shoot turns into a nightmare when they become stranded. As they retreat to a desolate cabin, Elliot's mounting fear of losing custody pushes him to the edge. The brothers quickly realize that the man responsible for keeping them safe has now become their biggest threat.… Expand

Director: Rob Connolly

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller

Rating: R

Runtime: 89 min

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RogerEbert.com Godfrey Cheshire

Aug 12, 2016

A very suspenseful, atmospheric mounting and sharp acting by its small but expert cast. Read full review

Michael Rechtshaffen

Aug 11, 2016

A frostbitten B-movie can still provide a little welcome relief in the dead of summer. Edge of Winter suffices as a diverting breath of recycled cool air. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Aug 11, 2016

Kinnaman delivers a superb turn.... Holland and White also are excellent as the boys who still love their father even while becoming ever more aware of his failings. Their quietly terrified reactions to his escalating belligerence is far more emotionally wrenching than the tired thriller genre conventions to which the film ultimately succumbs. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Aug 9, 2016

Connolly’s film, formerly titled less poetically, “Backcountry,” has a lovely, wintry tone and a few minor surprises. The action sequences are competently handled, even if there’s little real suspense about what is coming and where this is going. Read full review

Andy Webster

Aug 11, 2016

[A] competent but slight thriller. Read full review

Luke Y. Thompson

Aug 11, 2016

Director Rob Connolly may well think he's upping the stakes by plunging his film into borderline horror territory, but in fact he's minimizing them. Read full review

Johanna Schneller

Aug 18, 2016

Kinnaman, a Swede, is good in small doses – say, as Mireille Enos’s sidekick in the TV series The Killing – but he’s no leading man. He gives us zero insight into Elliot, so he never makes us care about him. This film will be remembered (if at all) as one of the things Holland did before he was Spider-Man. Read full review

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TryASummersault

Dec 10, 2016

I really didn't know what to expect with this, but the desolate winter setting and Kinnaman lured me into watching it. While the first 15 min are reasonably decent as the tone is set, it dwindles into dullness and senselessness the rest of the way with almost no plotting or substance. It'sI really didn't know what to expect with this, but the desolate winter setting and Kinnaman lured me into watching it. While the first 15 min are reasonably decent as the tone is set, it dwindles into dullness and senselessness the rest of the way with almost no plotting or substance. It's essentially Kinnaman losing his mind with his kids and beating people to a pulp in the snow.… Expand

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