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The Last Winter

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Dennis Harvey, Variety.com, MSN Entertainment
Metascore
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 from metacritic.com
69
Generally favorable reviews
out of 100
Based on 17 critic reviews
Horror Quietly Builds in 'Last Winter'
By Dennis Harvey, Variety.com

After watching mankind wreck her handiwork, Mother Nature's vengeance shifts from global-warming-slow to horror-movie-swift in "The Last Winter." The most physically expansive feature to date by Larry Fessenden sports the virtues of his prior efforts ("Habit," "Wendigo"), which are also their commercial limitations — i.e. an emphasis on character dynamics, slow-burning tension and offbeat narrative rather than the usual genre checklist of monster sightings, false scares and gory deaths. This U.S.-Iceland co-production is an imperfect but compelling thriller that will probably fare best in ancillary — a pity, since its wide-open-space compositions cry for the big screen. ... More on Variety.com

Copyright 2007 Variety, Inc. All rights reserved.

After watching mankind wreck her handiwork, Mother Nature's vengeance shifts from global-warming-slow to horror-movie-swift in "The Last Winter." The most physically expansive feature to date by Larry Fessenden sports the virtues of his prior efforts ("Habit," "Wendigo"), which are also their commercial limitations — i.e. an emphasis on character dynamics, slow-burning tension and offbeat narrative rather than the usual genre checklist of monster sightings, false scares and gory deaths. This U.S.-Iceland co-production is an imperfect but compelling thriller that will probably fare best in ancillary — a pity, since its wide-open-space compositions cry for the big screen. ... More on Variety.com

Copyright 2007 Variety, Inc. All rights reserved.

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90
Village Voice: Nathan Lee
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 Full Review »
90
LOS ANGELES TIMES: Carina Chocano
It's billed as an environmental horror story, but The Last Winter bears all the hallmarks of an ever-popular genre that has always pitted science, technology and reason against emotion, awe and nature. It bears all the hallmarks of the gothic: ghosts, death, alienated sexuality, decay, secrets, madness and, of course, awe and trepidation in the face of the sublime power of nature.Read Full Review »
80
Salon.com: Andrew O'Hehir
Gruesome and terrifying 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 Full Review »
75
Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
Succeeds royally at building a sense of apocalyptic dread. It isn't quite so successful at sustaining that mood, and Fessenden resorts to blurry images of totemic spirit forces and stampeding moose specters to get where he's going. And where exactly is that? To a place designed to scare the bejesus out of us planet-pillaging consumers.Read Full Review »
75
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
Who said that an environmental horror film couldn't be didactic and spooky at the same time?Read Full Review »
75
Boston Globe: Ty Burr
The Last Winter sounds like a genre-movie platypus - a little bit of this, a little piece of that - but it stops short of laying an egg. In fact, it works eerily well.Read Full Review »
70
The New York Times: Manohla Dargis
Something wicked this way comes in the nifty horror film The Last Winter, crawling through the hallways and howling into the dread night.Read Full Review »
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