Frozen 2010

Amy Nicholson, Boxoffice Magazine: In those moments when we (and the characters) are paralyzed between bad decisions, we're as stiff with tension as an icicle. Read more

A.O. Scott, At the Movies: There's not enough here for 90 minutes. Read more

Sam Adams, Los Angeles Times: This chilly thriller from Adam Green (Hatchet) starts with a nifty premise and goes nowhere from there. Read more

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: A nifty little chiller that balances its cold terrain with an unexpectedly warm heart. Read more

Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: Adam Green's Frozen explores a tiny idea exhaustively, and I mean exhaustively. Read more

Noel Murray, AV Club: Green definitely knows his way around a suspense sequence, but he needs to find a way to work those sequences into a movie that has its own organic life, and isn't so... well, please refer back to the title. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Frozen has its work cut out for it, since the main characters are so annoying you initially pray for an avalanche to just get it over with. Read more

Cliff Doerksen, Chicago Reader: A stuck chairlift just doesn't exert the same primal terror as a roiling sea, and to make up the difference, Green would need a better cast and sharper dialogue than he has here. Read more

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: The film moves along, in its paradoxically static way, at a pretty fair clip. I look forward to Green's follow-up. Read more

Cary Darling, Dallas Morning News: The threesome's constant conversation amid the building unease helps establish them as characters with which the audience can identify. Read more

Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Tthe script is clunky, the acting strained. Too bad. Underlying the life-and-death thriller are notions about the ways coupledom changes and challenges friendships. Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: Frozen is good for five minutes of "What would you do if?" games. Then it's just stiff as a board. Read more

Lou Lumenick, New York Post: The performances and what passes for dialogue -- mostly extended bickering and screaming -- are so lackluster that it's hard to care about the fate of this trio for long. Read more

Rex Reed, New York Observer: Calm and jaded as I am, I was left so paralyzed with terror by this movie that I chewed a whole pencil in half watching it. Read more

David Hiltbrand, Philadelphia Inquirer: Where are the flying Saint Bernards when you really need them? Read more

Rebecca Lang, Minneapolis Star Tribune: The excess of conversation never succeeds at humor, but it does make us hate the characters, whose speech seems to have just two modes: bickering and whining. Read more

Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times: An entertaining, suspense-filled, sometimes wonderfully grotesque little scarefest. Read more

Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail: Another date movie-horror flick designed to scare tentative couples into each other's arms. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Taking a dramatic turn from the slasher hilarity of his breakthrough feature Hatchet, writer/director Green plays it straight with a script that has the virtue of simplicity. Read more

Derek Adams, Time Out: Adam Green's taut, toe-curling survival thriller is better than it should be: the concept and the characters' behaviour are mostly plausible, the script is dark and funny, the acting is adequate, and the wildlife scenes are convincing. Read more

Peter Debruge, Variety: Since the plot literally has nowhere to go, Frozen is basically a waiting game. Read more

Aaron Hillis, Village Voice: Green also can't maintain the suspension of disbelief necessary as we watch three charmlessly written characters bicker and attempt inane ideas. Read more