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Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Made with uncommon skill and assurance, the film never succumbs to rank sentimentality, but it manages to get at the nuances of human relationships. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: All in all, Frozen River is gripping stuff. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: This is a debut feature, though you'd never know it from the filmmaker's commandingly confident style, or from the heartbreaking beauty -- heartbreaking, then heartmending -- of Melissa Leo's performance. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: Frozen River, a story of abject desperation, feels so real and immediate that it plays almost like a documentary. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Frozen River does what too many independent American movies only pretend to do: Takes you to an unnoticed corner of our country and shows what it's like to actually live there. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Frozen River asks is how much that communality will mean in the context of an uncaring, unforgiving world. It is a powerful question, and the film answers it in the best way possible. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: It moves and it heals, finding hints of redemption in the jagged face of life. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: You feel like you're watching a life, not a performance. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: Frozen River isn't just a good movie made by a woman; it's a good movie on anyone's terms, one of the year's best. To find hope beneath this ice, in this ugly terrain, is to dream big. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: In Frozen River, [Melissa] Leo's acting has a brittle severity and power. Every moment of her performance feels torn from experience, and so does the movie, which finds a suspense in broken lives that are hanging in the balance. Read more
Mark Bourne, Film.com: Frozen River let me forget I was watching a movie, something that didn't happen often in 2008. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: There are moments of poetry on display. Read more
Rafer Guzman, Newsday: Without Leo, Frozen River wouldn't be nearly as compelling as it is. Read more
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: The gritty Leo is gaunt and harried, but tough company to travel with. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: A low-budget triumph for director Courtney Hunt that won the grand jury prize at Sundance, Frozen River is a thriller set in upstate New York anchored by an unforgettable performance by veteran character actress Melissa Leo. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: Should prove thematically and spiritually invigorating for adult audiences with a feeling for the heroism of everyday life. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Courtney Hunt's Frozen River is the first great film of the fall. It has great actors playing vivid characters in a setting that makes for a clash of cultures. Read more
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: An urgent and incomparably moving first feature from Courtney Hunt. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Frozen River is one of those rare independent films that knows precisely what it intends, and what the meaning of the story is. Read more
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Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: An impressive first feature by writer/director Courtney Hunt, Frozen River boasts considerable suspense-movie tension and a compelling emotional journey for its foreground characters. Read more
Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail: The miracle of filmmaker Courtney Hunt's tense, carefully understated debut is that it is made better by its few flights of fancy. Read more
Bruce Demara, Toronto Star: It's fair to say that Hunt's first full-length feature, though uneven at times, holds the promise of better things to come. Read more
David Jenkins, Time Out: Occasionally marred by contrivance and a crude internal logic that doesn't bear close scrutiny, 'Frozen River' works best as a knuckle-gnawing, blue-collar genre thriller. Read more
Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic: We quickly sense that the director of this film has unusual perception, and that whatever the story and performances turn out to be, she will make the most of them. Read more