Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)

Nominated for 1 Academy Award:

Best Cinematography

The critics must be crazy. How else would you explain the 44/100 score this has on Metacritic? It’s not a great film, and I didn’t LIKE-LIKE it, but a bad film it’s not. It’s a serious drama, mostly well-written, not perfectly directed. But it has a catchy start, and I was actually curious to see what happens.

Sure, it has its flaws. It has the white savior complex, and it stumbles too much in the love story, when it should focus more on the mystery. But it’s watchable. And let me mention Max von Sydow and his very impressive monologue scene, he would’ve been an Oscar contender in any other year. All the supporting actors are good, Ethan Hawke less so.

 

I give it: 7/10

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