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Frozen

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Frozen reviews
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9.5 User Score:

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Based on 16 critic reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Drama  |  Suspense/Thriller

Written by: Adam Green

Directed by: Adam Green

Release Date:
Theatrical: February 5, 2010

Running Time: 94 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: R for some disturbing images and language

Starring Kevin Zegers, Shawn Ashmore, and Emma Bell

A typical day on the slopes turns into a chilling nightmare for three snowboarders when they get stranded on the chairlift before their last run. As the ski patrol switches off the night lights, they realize with growing panic that they've been left behind dangling high off the ground with no way down. With the resort closed until the following weekend and frostbite and hypothermia already setting in, the trio is forced to take desperate measures to escape off the mountain before they freeze to death. Once they make their move, they discover with horror that they have much more to fear than just the frigid cold. As they combat unexpected obstacles, they start to question if their will to survive is strong enough to overcome the worst ways to die? (Anchor Bay Films)

What The Critics Said

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75

New York Observer Rex Reed

The best kind of horror film, about innocent people plunged into mind-boggling circumstances beyond their control.

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70

The New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis

A minimalist setup delivers maximum fright in Frozen, a nifty little chiller that balances its cold terrain with an unexpectedly warm heart.

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70

The Hollywood Reporter James Greenberg

Frozen delivers enough thrills and gory chills to satisfy the horror film crowd, but is not written, directed or acted well enough to be a first-rate thriller.

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63

Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips

The film moves along, in its paradoxically static way, at a pretty fair clip. I look forward to Green's follow-up.

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58

The Onion (A.V. Club) Noel Murray

While the actors are game, their characters are awfully generic.

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50

Boston Globe Ty Burr

An effective, no-frills gruel-a-thon if that’s your cup of Swiss Miss, and it explores such burning questions as: What happens if you’re dumb enough to leave your bare hand on a metal safety bar overnight?

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50

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Stephen Cole

Frozen would get props for a novel plot, except that its storyline appears to be ski-lifted from the "Curb Your Enthusiasm" episode where Larry is stuck on a chairlift with an Orthodox Jewish woman who is terrified of being seen with a man after sunset.

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50

Chicago Reader Cliff Doerksen

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.

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40

Los Angeles Times Michael Ordona

It's difficult to get into its "What would I do?" vibe, though, through so thick and transparent a barrier of contrivances.

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40

Variety Peter Debruge

Don't be surprised if the movie's most wince-inducing moments come not from the "disturbing images" (as the MPAA describes the sight of a leg bone sticking six inches out of one character's ski pants) but rather of the bad acting and worse dialogue.

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40

Village Voice Aaron Hillis

Green also can't maintain the suspension of disbelief necessary as we watch three charmlessly written characters bicker and attempt inane ideas. It's one thing to be scared with them, and quite another to feel trapped with them.

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40

Time Out New York Joshua Rothkopf

Better to defrost "Alive" or "The Edge" from the video icebox.

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38

New York Post Lou Lumenick

Relies far too much on an overdose of gore and a pack of hungry wolves to deliver its chills.

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30

Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

Adam Green's Frozen explores a tiny idea exhaustively, and I mean exhaustively.

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25

Philadelphia Inquirer David Hiltbrand

If you actually sit through this enervating ordeal, you'll swear that time is Frozen.

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20

New York Daily News Joe Neumaier

Frozen is good for five minutes of "What would you do if?" games. Then it's just stiff as a board.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 9.5 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

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