Snow Cake

USA Today Claudia Puig

Most noteworthy for the performance of Sigourney Weaver as Linda, an autistic woman.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

Sigourney Weaver and Alan Rickman imbue screenwriter Angela Pell's characters with a quiet authenticity that's surprisingly moving.

Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano

Modest but well wrought and witty, Snow Cake is full of unexpected moments and clever observations.

Village Voice Ella Taylor

Does sidle up to the brink of mawkishness, but it pulls back so nicely into Weaver's rich, hard-headed evocation of Linda's limitations.

Film Threat Felix Vasquez, Jr.

Rickman and Weaver sell it, and the utterly heart wrenching finale is the big pay off, and the experience is worth it.

Boston Globe Ty Burr

Snow Cake is dazlious, too: overly forced, a shade too whimsical, but filling a void other words and other movies haven't the nerve or errant taste to confront.

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

In the end, Weaver provides a moving and sensitive portrait of one person out of an estimated 400,000 in America with this mental disorder we are just beginning to understand.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Noel Murray

If only Snow Cake had hewed closer to this idea of showing what an adult autist's life and experiences are like, rather than getting caught up in Rickman's rote re-awakening, it could've been as powerful as it strains to be.

The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt

The mental and physical landscape would do justice to an Atom Egoyan film, but in this film, the key dramatic moments feel as forced as they are predictable.

Variety Derek Elley

Boosted by a delish performance from Carrie-Anne Moss as a local vamp who helps unthaw the Englishman, but holed beneath the waterline by a gratingly miscast Sigourney Weaver as the persnickety autistic.

The New York Times Stephen Holden

Like "I Am Sam," it is a film that tests your cynicism.

New York Post Kyle Smith

Alan Rickman holds the film together.

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

An awfully tidy, infernally sparkly study in skewed blessings, made manifest by Committed Acting from Sigourney Weaver.

Washington Post Desson Thomson

Never gets as emotionally involving, or persuasive, as the moviemakers intend it to.

Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek

The picture is so drab and listless that it often feels like punishment, even though Rickman gives a fine performance, one that's heartfelt as well as characteristically elegant (not to mention sexy).