One big chill. The only thing that moves with any purpose in this picture is the weather.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 10, 2019

Shot either in extreme, eye-swelling close-ups or in excessively composed, arty landscapes, I now know more about the blood vessels in these actors' noses than I care to.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 5, 2011

Good movie for adults and older teens.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 28, 2010

... it powerfully re-creates the history, captures the essence of Guterson's characters, and carries us through hypnotized by breathtaking cinematography.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Dec 6, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 20, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 8, 2003

...the movie is, for the most part, just unreasonably dull.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 12, 2002

Badly hobbled by an over-emphasis upon cinematic technique that obliterates the emotional undertow of the story.

Full Review | Aug 21, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 22, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 28, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 17, 2001

Hicks and cinematographer Robert Richardson give this interdicted love affair an emotional immediacy with the sheer brute force of their images.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Mar 23, 2001

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 27, 2001

The film seems to be the work of a visual pack rat, stitched together in a feat of manic, roving impressionism that is much too polite to acknowledge the presence of anger.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Pretty but chilly.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Crashes under the weight of its own ambitions.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Hicks' precariously impressionistic interpretation of David Guterson's novel is either artful or a snow job -- and possibly both.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

The eccentric characters which inhabited the novel are no longer present. In their place is an elegantly shot void.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

I found much of it as dispiriting as a museum tour conducted in soporific tones by an overexposed TV pundit.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Snow Falling is not a crowd-pleasing, or even audience-oriented, movie; it's a two-hour-plus mood piece.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000