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Roger Ebert, At the Movies: Reveals itself with the complexity of a novel, holding its themes up to the light so that first one and then another aspect can be seen. Read more
Jeff Millar, Houston Chronicle: The actors are valiant, but not bulletproof against the screenplay's almost obsessive romanticism. Read more
Susan Stark, Detroit News: Snow Falling on Cedars makes its most powerful impression in totally silent stretches. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Snow Falling on Cedars is very rarely dull, very often poetic. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: Dramatically inert. Read more
Steve Murray, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Pretty but chilly. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Snow Falling on Cedars has to fight to hold our attention and it doesn't always succeed. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Exceedingly blurred rendering of a simply told, artful novel. Read more
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: Prettily photographed yet morbidly gloomy. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Snow Falling on Cedars is a motion picture of great thematic and visual richness. Read more
Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: Plodding and self-serious. Read more
Dennis Lim, Village Voice: Scott Hicks's loud, bustling direction ensures there's no shortage of activity in his adaptation of Snow Falling on Cedars, but the inertia at the core of the movie is unmistakable. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Casting Hawke as Ishmael Chambers in a mediocre movie version of Snow Falling on Cedars is pretty much the kiss of death. Read more