An unconventional neo-noir, with a great performance from Jennifer Lawrence and an effective brooding quality. It's unconventional due to the location it's set in, and the low-key, depressing quality it has, but it also epitomises noir at its most uninteresting, even frustrating, in terms of plotting. The plot progression feels arbitrary, and the ending is too convenient. Still, there's a rural horror at the heart of the film which keeps it interesting.

really good 10 out of 10

Winter's Bone is not a film that particularly impressed me. It's entertaining some of the time, but boring more often than not. It features great acting in both the lead and the supporting cast, but that didn't save the film for me. The story just ends up burning out far too quickly, and never recapturing how well it starts out. Not terrible, but also not a film that you need to rush out to see.

Apparently all men are childish, selfish, and pathetic wife-beaters. I mean it's more or less true, but they didn't have to bring it home so hard. I kid. Speaking of home though, apparently I grew up in the Canadian equivalent to rural Missouri, since this film hit a little too close to it.

Bleaker than 'Boj na poziralniku'

Wonderfully bleak and empty

It's a very good film with several great performances from Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes and Dale Dickey. It's not exactly a "happy" movie and I'm not sure I am up for revisiting it for awhile.

Great actors. Especially Jennifer Lawrence with an excellent performance.

Granik's finely-tuned evocation of the poverty stricken Ozark community and her windswept cinematography serves as an excellent backdrop to a grimy and simple pulp thriller that never really transcends said pulp roots. Hawkes is spectacular, stealing scene after scene from Lawrence's taciturn but unremarkable lead performance, and everything about the film carries an air of authenticity that's hard to shake, from the dialogue to the cold hues of the backwoods.

Good Movie

A frightening small town story which was served well by the cameo of the queen of the small town weirdos, Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee). This was one level above "stranger than fiction"; it was so real that it became surreal. Not since reading Preacher, so much fear of the countryside has been instilled in me; I'm telling ya.

A harsh story, but leavened with enough humanity and compassion that it doesn't become an ordeal. Great understated final scene.

The one-dimensional characters, repetitive plot progression, and unnecessarily slow pace brought nothing but boredom to the violent simplicity. Teardrop was the only interesting thing about it, and he barely made sense. As far as the style went, I call that point-and-shoot (in cloudy weather), and the "realism" would have felt more real if at anytime one of the characters would've had a thought; it was all reactive. I know there are people like this, but I don't see the point in making the film.

Very strong characters seem to be Jennifer Lawrence's specialty. She's a bet of mine for stardom in the future.

The movie has a good story which is backed by some good acting. I believe the movie has got a lot more praise than it deserves but that still doesnt take away the fact that it is a good movie. It does fall apart a bit towards the end. Over all a decent movie.

A well acted yet immensely depressing movie. I never want to travel through the rural south.....ever.

very good movie that manages to make a sort of horror film out of people, which with the way horror films have been going (supernatural) its a welcome atmosphere. not to say this is a horror film, but it has those elements for sure.

Its a good story and it is well-told with some excellent performances. A very neat explanation of the backwood American story with the whole movie being dull with grey color and the local community comprising of grizzly-bearded old men and the weary wrinkled faces of women who are violently supportive.

A movie about extreme poverty and meth labs in the USA.The yong girl looking after her sick mother and younger siblings must find her druggie dad or get kicked off her property which would leave her family comletely destitute. It is a good movie.

Great performance by Jennifer Lawrence in a bleak, but touching film about an forced-to-grow-up-fast girl hunting down her drug-dealing father.

Amazing performances and intense.

High quality, very tense, neo-noir style drama, with great casting and a simple script and plot executed to perfection. Lawrence is excellent and carries the whole film on her shoulders, but her support cast are very good too.

Absolutely compelling and believable, about a section of society that doesn't often get the spotlight. But these people exist! Some of them not far from where my parents live!

This is a very real, no-nonsense look at the impact of drug culture on rural, backwoods America. Many films look at inner-city violence and gangs, but Winter's Bone shows that these things can happen anywhere. It's Fargo meets Goodfellas. People can be trapped by what they know and own. Pride can be painful. Blood, when passed around too many times, gets really watered down. A tight and exciting script; Ree & Teardrop are instantly memorable characters. Depressing and hopeful at the same time.

I don't see what all the hype is about. To me, it felt very "indie," i.e. it has cheap production values. I suppose it is a realistic portrait of poor small town life and crime... I felt right away that I wouldn't want to live like that, and I guess it left me feeling cold throughout the movie.

Atmospheric and humane, Winter's Bone puts a contemporary and feminist spin on a typically noirish tale. The performances by Lawrence and Hawkes are especially strong, as is the way Granik constructs a mood of creeping dread around the events of the protagonist's life. The film avoids the all too typical problem of leveling judgment against its characters, allowing all of them, even some of the more villainous ones, a humanity and complexity that makes the film that much more engrossing.