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| Released: |
2010 |
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DRAMA
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THRILLER
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US |
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C |
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| Length: |
99 |
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ANTI Reviews
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| | | Grim backwoods tale takes its time building momentum. | | | (John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter) | | | Debra Granik's Winter's Bone is one of those movies - like last year's inner-city down-a-thon, Preciousthat can't quite make a distinction between profundity and plain old bleakness. | | | (Stephanie Zacharek, Movieline) | | | A tough movie to love. | | | (Ann Hornaday, Washington Post) | | | The acting, which is less spectacular than acceptably unshowy, goes a long way toward helping Winter’s Bone overcome its most considerable deficits. Because the supporting cast looks so unlike the people we typically see in films, they provide a menacing and interesting string of personalities for Bree to encounter, which is one of the key functions of any noir. Of course having such a motley crew floating about undercuts any sense of realism, but by its climax, set amid a Gothic river, Winter’s Bone has fully revealed itself as a genre film. The best noir, though, uses its genre to paint a jaundiced picture of the society in which it takes place. Competent and well-mounted, but rather unexciting by the standards of the noir genre, Winter’s Bone might stumble most in failing to tack any significant social subtext onto its story. Beyond a trite message that family can be a burden and some clunky metaphors in its final moments that suggest redemption, there is not much going on here. | | | (Jeremy Heilman, Movie Martyr) | | | If there were a white-trash rights group, it would picket the movie studio... The main reason for Winter's Bone to exist is that it delivers a little voyeuristic thrill - a bit of poverty porno - for the critics who awarded it their highest honors at this year's Sundance Film Festival. There ain't nothin' they like better'n a nice bowl o' grit. | | | | (Kyle Smith, New York Post) | |
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Teardrop - John Hawkes 
