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Snow Falling on Cedars (1999) Movie Reviews

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Film Quips Online (John R. McEwen)

Snow Falling On Cedars leaves one with the feeling of having just finished a good novel; this is perhaps the highest praise one could offer a film based on a best-seller....read the complete Snow Falling on Cedars (1999) review at Film Quips Online (John R. McEwen)

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Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)

Just off the Washington shore, a fisherman is found dead in his own nets with a wound to the head. Murder is supected and the only suspect is another fisherman, who happens to be Japanese in a time when post-WWII sentiments are stacked against him. Now he...read the complete Snow Falling on Cedars (1999) review at Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)

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Mr. Showbiz (Larry Terenzi)

Hicks is far less interested in resolving dramatic conflicts than in framing shots....read the complete Snow Falling on Cedars (1999) review at Mr. Showbiz (Larry Terenzi)

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LA Weekly (John Patterson)

The narrative chronology is so heavily hacked about, its tenses so addled and the material so thinly spread across so many characters, one can scarcely keep it straight in one's head without going cross-eyed....read the complete Snow Falling on Cedars (1999) review at LA Weekly (John Patterson)

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Hollywood.com (Ted Murphy)

While there is undoubtedly a fine movie to be made from Snow Falling on Cedars , this version, despite some of the acting and the photography, is not it....read the complete Snow Falling on Cedars (1999) review at Hollywood.com (Ted Murphy)

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