Snow Cake
IFC Films | Release Date: April 27, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
54
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
8
Negative:
0
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75
USA TodayClaudia Puig
Most noteworthy for the performance of Sigourney Weaver as Linda, an autistic woman. Read full review
75
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Sigourney Weaver and Alan Rickman imbue screenwriter Angela Pell's characters with a quiet authenticity that's surprisingly moving. Read full review
70
Village VoiceElla Taylor
Does sidle up to the brink of mawkishness, but it pulls back so nicely into Weaver's rich, hard-headed evocation of Linda's limitations. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesCarina Chocano
Modest but well wrought and witty, Snow Cake is full of unexpected moments and clever observations. Read full review
70
Film ThreatFelix Vasquez, Jr.
Rickman and Weaver sell it, and the utterly heart wrenching finale is the big pay off, and the experience is worth it. Read full review
63
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
In the end, Weaver provides a moving and sensitive portrait of one person out of an estimated 400,000 in America with this mental disorder we are just beginning to understand. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeTy Burr
Snow Cake is dazlious, too: overly forced, a shade too whimsical, but filling a void other words and other movies haven't the nerve or errant taste to confront. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubNoel Murray
If only Snow Cake had hewed closer to this idea of showing what an adult autist's life and experiences are like, rather than getting caught up in Rickman's rote re-awakening, it could've been as powerful as it strains to be. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
The mental and physical landscape would do justice to an Atom Egoyan film, but in this film, the key dramatic moments feel as forced as they are predictable. Read full review
50
VarietyDerek Elley
Boosted by a delish performance from Carrie-Anne Moss as a local vamp who helps unthaw the Englishman, but holed beneath the waterline by a gratingly miscast Sigourney Weaver as the persnickety autistic. Read full review
50
The New York TimesStephen Holden
Like "I Am Sam," it is a film that tests your cynicism. Read full review
50
New York PostKyle Smith
Alan Rickman holds the film together. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
An awfully tidy, infernally sparkly study in skewed blessings, made manifest by Committed Acting from Sigourney Weaver. Read full review
50
Washington PostDesson Thomson
Never gets as emotionally involving, or persuasive, as the moviemakers intend it to. Read full review
40
SalonStephanie Zacharek
The picture is so drab and listless that it often feels like punishment, even though Rickman gives a fine performance, one that's heartfelt as well as characteristically elegant (not to mention sexy). Read full review
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