Edge of Winter
Vertical Entertainment | Release Date: August 12, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
50
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
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7
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1
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75
RogerEbert.comGodfrey CheshireAug 12, 2016
A very suspenseful, atmospheric mounting and sharp acting by its small but expert cast. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckAug 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
60
Los Angeles TimesMichael RechtshaffenAug 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
50
IndieWireDavid EhrlichAug 14, 2016
This is irrefutably Kinnaman’s movie, but Connolly fatally undervalues him. He doesn’t trust his actor to walk the emotional tightrope his film stretches taut before him, to sell us on the idea of a father digging himself deeper into a hole of his own design. Read full review
50
The New York TimesAndy WebsterAug 11, 2016
[A] competent but slight thriller. Read full review
50
Village VoiceLuke Y. ThompsonAug 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
50
Movie NationRoger MooreAug 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
50
Slant MagazineEd GonzalezAug 5, 2016
One comes to resent the film for how it thrills to the possibility of a father hurting his children. Read full review
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Johanna SchnellerAug 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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