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Snow Falling on Cedars
Universal Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for disturbing images, sensuality and brief strong language
Starring
Ethan Hawke,
James Cromwell,
Richard Jenkins,
and
Sam Shepard
Set against the backdrop of the national crisis that erupted following Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor, this is an elegiac, multi-layered exploration of memory, love and reconciliation on an island in the Pacific Northwest. (Universal Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Scott Hicks
Ronald Bass
David Guterson (novel)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Scott Hicks
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: May 30, 2000
Video: May 30, 2000
Theatrical: December 22, 1999
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| RUNNING TIME: |
126 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
95
TNT RoughCut
Christopher Brandon
Scott Hicks adapts David Guterson's best-selling novel as if it was poetry.
88
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
The kind of richly layered film that Hollywood seldom attempts, much less brings off. But it's more than brought off here in grand, solid style and beautifully crafted detail.

88
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Uusually satisfying in the way it unfolds.

75
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Reflective, deliberate, building gradually to a climax that left me touched.

70
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Flawed, but fascinating, this somber adaptation of David Guterson's award-winning novel is sometimes sluggish and difficult to follow, but it's also unexpectedly poetic.

67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
As good as it is in many ways, the film is not as emotionally gripping as it should be, and comes off as a rather predictable liberal statement.

67
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Fails to completely engage the viewer at the basic level of story.

62
Mr. Showbiz
Larry Terenzi
Hicks is far less interested in resolving dramatic conflicts than in framing shots.

50
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
As cosmetically sanitized revisions of history go: This is as good as it gets.

50
Time
Richard Schickel
Essentially a liberal soap opera.

50
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.

50
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
For all the beauty it struggles to bring forth, Snow Falling on Cedars is painfully prosaic.

50
Film.com
Robert Horton
Not a crowd-pleasing, or even audience-oriented, movie; it's a two-hour-plus mood piece.

50
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Has to fight to hold our attention and it doesn't always succeed.

50
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
A prettily photographed yet morbidly gloomy movie.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
Ultimately there's something too measured, too controlled in his film.

50
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Too chilly and distanced to build the emotional impact it would like to have.

50
USA Today
Staff [Not Credited]
Compelling almost in spite of itself, thanks to the impressionistic imagery of cinematographer Robert Richardson.

50
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Exceedingly blurred rendering of a simply told, artful novel.

40
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Impeccably crafted but dramatically dull.

40
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Never transports you to another place and time, as it intends to.

40
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.

40
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.

38
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
The year's most beautiful movie -- and surely one of the dullest.

30
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.

30
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Admirably high-minded and visually gorgeous but fatally anesthetized by its own grandiosity.

30
Village Voice
Dennis Lim
Trying to act in this movie is like trying to stand upright in a blizzard.

30
Newsweek
David Ansen
All shots and no scenes, which is nice for a picture book but deadly for drama.

30
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Loaded with facile social themes, opaque characters, pointlessly intricate flashbacks, and inflated technique.

25
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Looks exquisite, but don't bother digging deeper.

25
Baltimore Sun
Ann Hornaday
Ultimately groans under the weight of its own quiet gorgeousness.


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