Good acting all around, but Beckinsale is really good. Surprisingly good. I'm not sure why, but this movie got to me some how. Probably because I love the "nobody is satisfied with their lives" stuff. I really dug it.

Snow Angels is definitely a film you should watch. It's a beautiful film that tells an important story. Its story is told in a compelling way that will leave you emotionally drained by the end. A film like this is one that is such an emotional roller-coaster that it may not be one that you would even want to watch again. Give it a look, as the first time you watch it, it will be an experience you hopefully will not forget any time soon.

watch this if you want to be depressed

Green handles the film with an elegant restraint that sometimes veers close to bloodlessness, but overall gives it a hard, tense sheen. Adapted from a novel, the film sometimes feels as though it's missing out on the deeper psychological understanding that's far easier to realize on the page than on the screen. Green's greatest strength is crafting a depiction of small time life in all its grinding loneliness and interconnections that is equal parts authentic and poetic.

Disappointing effort from the talented David Gordon Green contrasts the coming together of two teens (well done) with the falling apart of two adults (not so well done). It's too schematic to work. The scenes are short, often punctuated by fade-outs, and end with heavy signifying punchlines. Backstory is introduced constantly to provide foreshadowing. Ultimately, the film tries to do too much with too little.

I need to stop entrusting my emotions to David Gordon Green, before he stomps on my heart again. Snow Angels is utterly tragic and heartbreaking, not entirely devoid of hope but bleak enough to feel like it at times. Why did he ditch the killer indie dramas for stoner comedies, again?

It sure is depressing, but it's damn good as well. I don't know why, but I like it when movies sometimes show us people that aren't especially happy with their lives and they don't come to terms with it or have it improve greatly by the end. Everyone shines here, but Rockwell is clearly the head of the class (probably because he's a great actor).

A bit overworked. Now, cry, dammit! Cry!

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This is not a happy feel-good movie by any measure.As we see a young couple light the flame of love we watch as 3 couples in various ways extinguish there's.The ending is brutal and extremely heartbreaking.

"Green doesn't seem to be charting a recognizable world, only the contours of his own mind." - Ed Gonzalez

Snow Angels fails to return David Gordon Green to the glory days of 2000's George Washington but temporarily returns compassion to the arena of Sundance dramedies, now a go-to ground for filmmaking narcissists and purveyors of meaningless quirk. Yet what might have made a haunting, sobering film of sorrow, pathos and union at a one hour length unravels in a last act of cheap aesthetic platitudes and dramatic exploitation. The biggest mistake? Documenting Rockwell more than Angarano and Thirlby.

Awesome storyline with just a bunch of great performances. I never could have thought a movie like this would work, but somehow it was pulled off.

This small town portrait isn't eccentric; it's just an indie-agnostic Peyton Place.

A decent enough drama but let down by a terrible ending.

I'm finding it still harder to resist David Gordon Green.

The scenes between Angarano and Thirby are fantastic and almost worth the price of admission. Green handles the scenes with such sensitivity and emotion that they are spellbinding to watch. The adult segments, on the other hand, simply do not fare as well and feel too conventional for what the teenage plotline calls for. Beckinsale is, surprisingly, fantastic.

Beckinsale puts in fantastic work, and Thirlby and Angarano work very well together, but I just couldn't get completely into this. It was unbelievable at best and melodramatic at it's worst, from the adultery subplots to the "oh my goodness I'm having a midlife crisis let's move into a stereotypical bachelor pad!". If you really, really love serious dramas, then watch it. If not, skip past this impostor to greatness.

Olivia Thirlby!!! Schwing!

Not as good as it wanted to be... Kate Beckinsale did some revelatory work; But Sam Rockwell seemed to be mocking himself, and the role, for the first half of the film... I can't recommend this one...

Depressing.

Depressing, but oh so good. The fact that David Gordon Green directed (and wrote) this, and also directed the upcoming Pineapple Express is just mind-blowing.

Tragic. There are few scenes in this film that run longer than 45 seconds (if that), but Green peppers them all with essential details before hopping to another character with another pivotal detail. It's a brisk, tense and depressing film loaded with exceptional acting -- Beckinsale and Rockwell give the best work of their careers. Angarano and Thirlby give the film its few fleeting moments of warmth -- a healthy young relationship surrounded by fucked-up adult nightmares. This one's excellent.

A good ol'-fashoned serious American drama, ripe with fine acting and helmed by a talented director with a meticulous vision.

I like the script and cinematography. Actors are okay and director can create interesting scenes. But the whole thing is like a series of incidents; they do not meet each other. The film does not build up an one complete entirety. And though the story is pretty good build up, it's anyway predictible.

all conflict in this is human drama, and while it was a fairly good movie it completely revolves around stupid/flawed people doing stupid/flawed things. some of the scenes have misleading music, but that is made up for by some great shots. this would have really benefited from a more intriguing story or a story at all, but as it is it's simply drama, decently made, but that's all.

A former married couple share custody of a child that goes missing, and the poor man who had his fair share of troubles before goes of the rails when the news hits him.

David Gordon Green owns. In the hands of a lesser director it would've been slow, boring and uninteresting but he really makes it work. Sam Rockwell gives yet another awesome performance (does he ever suck?) and surprisingly enough Beckinsale can keep up with him. Loved the story with Thirlby and Angarano, basically a series of good moments in a sea of madness. Check it out.