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Snow Falling on Cedars (1999) Rank 2 Reviews
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Film Monthly (Doug White)
Mr. Showbiz (Larry Terenzi)
Hicks is far less interested in resolving dramatic conflicts than in framing shots. ...read the complete Snow Falling on Cedars movie review at Mr. Showbiz (Larry Terenzi)
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TV Guide's Movie Guide (Ken Fox)
Flawed, but fascinating. ...read the complete Snow Falling on Cedars movie review at TV Guide's Movie Guide (Ken Fox)
Moviereviews.org (Mac VerStandig)
Universal is marketing this film for Best Picture is an insult to the Academy’s intellect. ...read the complete Snow Falling on Cedars movie review at Moviereviews.org (Mac VerStandig)
Oregon Herald (Jamie Peck)
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Box Office Magazine
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Entertainment Weekly (Lisa Schwarzbaum)
Exceedingly blurred rendering of a simply told, artful novel. ...read the complete Snow Falling on Cedars movie review at Entertainment Weekly (Lisa Schwarzbaum)
Movie Habit (Ibsen Birgers)
Movie Parables (Michael Elliott)
Snack Bar (Adam J. Hakari)
Greg's Previews at Yahoo! Movies (Greg Dean Schmitz)
Palo Alto Weekly (Leonard Schwarz)
Globe and Mail (--)
USA Today (Staff [Not Credited])
Compelling almost in spite of itself, thanks to the impressionistic imagery of cinematographer Robert Richardson. ...read the complete Snow Falling on Cedars movie review at USA Today (Staff [Not Credited])
San Francisco Chronicle (Edward Guthmann)
Ultimately there's something too measured, too controlled in his film. ...read the complete Snow Falling on Cedars movie review at San Francisco Chronicle (Edward Guthmann)
ShowBIZ Data
A Universal Release of a Harry J. Ufland, Ron Bass, Kennedy/Marshall Production; Produced by Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Harry Ufland, Ron Bass, Carol Baum and Lloyd A. Silverman; Co-produced by Richard Vane and David Guterson; Written by Ron Bass ...read the complete Snow Falling on Cedars movie review at ShowBIZ Data
Palo Alto Online (Leonard Schwarz)
Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
For a film that features not only a doomed romance between members of different races, but also a courtroom murder-mystery that relies on last minute evidence to decide its outcome, "Snow Falling on Cedars" is strangely uncompelling. This is, after ...read the complete Snow Falling on Cedars movie review at Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
FilmHead.com (Matt Heffernan)
San Francisco Examiner (Wesley Morris)
As cosmetically sanitized revisions of history go: This is as good as it gets. ...read the complete Snow Falling on Cedars movie review at San Francisco Examiner (Wesley Morris)
Time (Richard Schickel)
Essentially a liberal soap opera. ...read the complete Snow Falling on Cedars movie review at Time (Richard Schickel)
Chicago Tribune (Michael Wilmington)
Movies made from serious novels are often ridiculed as unworthy of their sources, but this one may be too worthy -- too reverent, too showy, too earnest. ...read the complete Snow Falling on Cedars movie review at Chicago Tribune (Michael Wilmington)
Portland Oregonian (Shawn Levy)
For all the beauty it struggles to bring forth, Snow Falling on Cedars is painfully prosaic. ...read the complete Snow Falling on Cedars movie review at Portland Oregonian (Shawn Levy)
Film.com (Robert Horton)
Not a crowd-pleasing, or even audience-oriented, movie; it's a two-hour-plus mood piece. ...read the complete Snow Falling on Cedars movie review at Film.com (Robert Horton)
Los Angeles Times (Kenneth Turan)
Has to fight to hold our attention and it doesn't always succeed. ...read the complete Snow Falling on Cedars movie review at Los Angeles Times (Kenneth Turan)
New York Daily News (Jami Bernard)
A prettily photographed yet morbidly gloomy movie. ...read the complete Snow Falling on Cedars movie review at New York Daily News (Jami Bernard)
MovieMaze (Thomas Brendel)
Variety (Todd McCarthy)
Impeccably crafted but dramatically dull. ...read the complete Snow Falling on Cedars movie review at Variety (Todd McCarthy)
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Washington Post (Desson Thomson)
Never transports you to another place and time, as it intends to. ...read the complete Snow Falling on Cedars movie review at Washington Post (Desson Thomson)
Film.com (Sean Means)
You just watch one carefully constructed but emotionally vacant image piled up on another - sometimes with regard to an overall effect, but often just for the sake of style over substance. ...read the complete Snow Falling on Cedars movie review at Film.com (Sean Means)
Dallas Observer (Bill Gallo)
This badly muddled adaptation of a complex novel chases after Guterson's many skeins and themes with no unifying principle in mind. ...read the complete Snow Falling on Cedars movie review at Dallas Observer (Bill Gallo)
Washington Post (Desson Thomson)
Casting Hawke as Ishmael Chambers in a mediocre movie version of Snow Falling on Cedars is pretty much the kiss of death. ...read the complete Snow Falling on Cedars movie review at Washington Post (Desson Thomson)
New York Post (Lou Lumenick)
The year's most beautiful movie -- and surely one of the dullest. ...read the complete Snow Falling on Cedars movie review at New York Post (Lou Lumenick)
Reel Film Reviews (David Nusair)
It's really too bad about Snow Falling on Cedars. Here's a movie that's great to look at, features maybe Max Von Sydow's best performance and yet...it's duller than Madonna at a tupperware party. Ethan Hawke stars as a one-armed reporter following the ...read the complete Snow Falling on Cedars movie review at Reel Film Reviews (David Nusair)
Reel.com
Watching von Sydow's withered, expressive face and listening to that deep, accented voice, it's impossible not to remember older, better films that knew how to convey complex emotions with originality and dash. What's perhaps most disturbing about Snow ...read the complete Snow Falling on Cedars movie review at Reel.com
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