Snow Cake Critic Reviews

Most noteworthy for the performance of Sigourney Weaver as Linda, an autistic woman.Read the full review

Modest but well wrought and witty, Snow Cake is full of unexpected moments and clever observations.Read the full review

Snow Cake is dazlious, too: overly forced, a shade too whimsical, but filling a void other words and other movies haven't the nerve or errant taste to confront.Read the full review

If only Snow Cake had hewed closer to this idea of showing what an adult autist's life and experiences are like, rather than getting caught up in Rickman's rote re-awakening, it could've been as powerful as it strains to be.Read the full review

Boosted by a delish performance from Carrie-Anne Moss as a local vamp who helps unthaw the Englishman, but holed beneath the waterline by a gratingly miscast Sigourney Weaver as the persnickety autistic.Read the full review

Never gets as emotionally involving, or persuasive, as the moviemakers intend it to.Read the full review

The mental and physical landscape would do justice to an Atom Egoyan film, but in this film, the key dramatic moments feel as forced as they are predictable.Read the full review

Like "I Am Sam," it is a film that tests your cynicism.Read the full review