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The Ice Storm (1997)
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Reviews Counted:54
Fresh:44
Rotten:10
Average Rating:7.6/10
Consensus: Director Ang Lee revisits the ennui-laden decadence of 1970s suburban America with deft humor and gripping pathos.
Synopsis: Director Ang Lee's main concern is a subtle examination of family life that he began with THE WEDDING BANQUET and EAT DRINK MAN WOMAN. With THE ICE STORM, Lee creates a truly American period film... [More]
Starring: Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Joan Allen, Tobey Maguire
Director: Ang Lee
Reviews for The Ice Storm
Top CriticBeautifully nuanced, passionately performed, and terrifically realized piece of work.
02/15/09
Beautifully acted, refreshingly un-camp in its take on wide lapels and progressive rock and occasionally coolly moving. It's just that ultimately, there's less here than meets the eye.
11/21/08
Arguably Lee's first truly essential film.
11/21/08
A well-observed and deftly performed examination of upper-middle-class emotional deep freeze...
07/28/08
Top CriticA rich and elegant drama.
09/24/07
What impressively begins as a gentle social satire gradually becomes a conventional family melodrama, one that lacks a clear moral center and in which the parents are just as confused as their children
10/25/06
A thoroughly enjoyable blend of comedy and melodrama...
06/24/06
...a black comedy ... that ultimately acquires Hitchcockian levels of suspense.
06/02/06
Ang Lee is a terrific filmmaker, but his usually upbeat directing style is stilted by the angst It's a well crafted, but, ultimately, negative-feeling movie.
04/09/05
It's concerned with the differences between the culture we profess and the lifestyles we actually indulge. Even more, it's about the consequences of betrayal.
01/15/05
A quarter of a century ago, Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver dealt with the same issues more successfully.
09/28/04
This is a cold and calculating film that will temporarily dampen those fond memories of everything we cherish from two decades back.
05/14/03
Sketched with subtlety and refined detail worthy of Ingmar Bergman.
10/15/02
Damn, is this film great!
09/10/02
No review available.
07/26/02
Rather than being moved or transfixed, you feel frozen and impartial, almost as disengaged as the characters themselves.
06/05/02
A remarkable film that takes us straight into John Updike territory, duplicating on screen exactly what the writer achieves on the page.
04/12/02
The best film about family so far this year. Just don't think Disney.
05/11/01
Lee infuses the film with just enough humor to keep it from becoming unremittingly bleak, but the overall impact is harsh and caustic.
02/27/01
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