- Studio: Focus Features
- Release Date: Nov 23, 2005
- Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Connie Nielsen, John Cusack
- Summary: A wickedly funny thriller about thick thieves and thin ice. (Focus Features)
- Director: Harold Ramis
- Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 20 out of 32
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Mixed: 9 out of 32
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Negative: 3 out of 32
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91In a season of bulging Movies Earmarked for Importance, it is almost startling to come across something as unhyped - and perfectly swell - as The Ice Harvest.
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80Its jazzy rhythm and economy of form place it closer to a 1950s film noir, shot through with humor so dark you need a flashlight to see it.
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A little more "Grifters" would have gone far here. Not toward making the film palatable for the mainstream, perhaps, but at least toward selling its neo-noir story to an audience already inclined toward such seedy material.
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30There is very little fun in The Ice Harvest, which wouldn't pose a problem if the film had some fleshed-out ideas to go along with the booze, the booty and the recycled plot points.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 10 out of 24
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Mixed: 5 out of 24
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Negative: 9 out of 24
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SusanneA.10Terrific!
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SusanM.4Not funny, bad storyline, so glad I didn't go see it in the theatre!
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