On the Ice
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  • Starring: Frank Qutuq Irelan, John Miller, Josiah Patkotak
  • Summary: Two teenage boys, who have grown up like brothers, go about their lives in the comfortable claustrophobia of an isolated Alaskan town. Early one morning, on a seal hunt with another teenager, an argument between the three boys quickly escalates into a tragic accident. Bonded by their dark secret, the two best friends are forced to create one fabrication after another in order to survive. The shocked boys stumble through guilt-fueled days, avoiding the suspicions of their community as they weave a web of deceit. With their future in the balance, they are forced to explore the limits of friendship and honor. (Silverwood Films)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 5 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 12
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  1. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Alison Willmore
    Feb 15, 2012
    83
    The performances, all from non-professional local actors, are noticeably uneven, but the film is as much a portrait of a place as it is a narrative, and cinematographer Lol Crawley shoots the white-on-white polar expanses like they're vistas stretching to the ends of the earth-which in a way, they are.
  2. Arizona Republic
    Reviewed by: Bill Goodykoontz
    Mar 29, 2012
    80
    It is an offbeat gem.
  3. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: John Anderson
    Feb 16, 2012
    60
    Writer-director Andrew Okpeaha MacLean, who in his feature debut has lashed together a sturdy vehicle for unadorned morality and pragmatic justice.
  4. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: J.R. Jones
    Feb 23, 2012
    50
    Film noir has seldom been so blanc.

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