Winter's Bone
20,240
Drama. Mystery. Thriller
Among the reclusive mountain people of the Missouri Ozarks, Seventeen-year-old Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence) sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, Ree and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and risking her life, Ree hacks through the lies, evasions and threats offered up by her relatives and begins to piece together the truth. [+]
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United States | USA Today | "Every so often a film gets under our skin with its haunting authenticity, reinforcing our faith in the wonderfully transporting power of cinematic storytelling. 'Winter's Bone' is unquestionably that film" | POS |
United Kingdom | Empire | "A piece of unhurried filmmaking too rarely seen these days. (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of five)" | POS |
United States | Los Angeles Times | "Intense, immersive and in control, 'Winter's Bone' has an art house soul inside a B picture body, and that proves to be a potent combination" | POS |
United States | Boston Globe | "It’s those noir bones that give this social-realist drama its punch, as if Humphrey Bogart had been recast as a 17-year-old girl and dropped into the poorest corner of America (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of four)" | POS |
United States | The Wall Street Journal | "Spectacular for its humanity, austere beauty and heart-stopping urgency" | POS |
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