The Last Winter 2006

Noel Murray, AV Club: The Last Winter's heart is in the right place, but it isn't pumping any blood. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: It works eerily well. Read more

Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: [It] accomplishes with a modest budget and a talented cast what bigger, slicker, gorier contemporary horror movies rarely do. It taps into a collective dread compounded by the guilt of our complicity. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: The problem is that the ghostly culprit, some sort of nature spirit, isn't nearly as terrifying as the arguments that Pollack makes, or the fact that the ice in such places really is weakening. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Die-hard greenies may find this as unsettling as it's meant to be. For everyone else, it's closer to an atmospheric act of recycling. Read more

John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: Fessenden, who directed, produced, cowrote, edited and even has a part in the film rightly values mood at least as much as he does delivering more abominable snow monsters. Read more

Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: Call it the first green horror picture, punctuated by ample doses of red. Oh, and it's also scary as f--k. Read more

John Anderson, Newsday: The acting's good, the camera work is haunting and [director] Fessenden continues to build his image as the thinking person's creepmeister. Read more

David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: The Last Winter was shot in northern Iceland and Alaska, and despite some too-explicit imagery in the final moments, the claustrophobia-to-psychosis continuum is harrowingly fluid. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Even if this is no red-blooded shocker, its unsettling mood lingers long past the final fade-out, hinting at all sorts of retribution just lying in wait for polluters. Read more

Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: Larry Fessenden has fashioned a different kind of horror movie here, one that moves at glacial speed, offers few scares and provides the viewer virtually no satisfaction. Read more

V.A. Musetto, New York Post: ...the film should please Fessenden's loyal followers and win him new ones. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: Gruesome things happen in The Last Winter, but there's no gratuitous gore or torture, and the film's real power comes from its building sense that something really, really bad is about to happen. Read more

David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle: The film isn't very interesting because it isn't well made. Read more

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Dennis Harvey, Variety: An imperfect but compelling thriller. Read more

Nathan Lee, Village Voice: It's the imaginative background, and Fessenden's talent at insinuating it into the action, that counts -- and unnerves -- in this most chilling of global-warming movies. Read more