The Ice Harvest: Critic Reviews

34%

MovieWeb: 1 reviews

46%

RottenTomatoes: 138 reviews

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Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

84

The Ice Harvest is surely the most bracing, opposite-of-gooey holiday picture to appear since Bad Santa ...
Full Review » 7 years ago
Manohla Dargis New York Times (Top Critic)

30

Crammed with barflies, strippers and assorted reprobates, The Ice Harvest easily takes the honors as this holiday season's biggest and dirtiest lump of coal.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Peter Bradshaw Guardian [UK] (Top Critic)

Full Review » 6 years ago
Claudia Puig USA Today (Top Critic)

50

Given that pedigree, it's all the more disappointing that this movie falls flat.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Desson Thomson Washington Post (Top Critic)

This often macabre comedy ... allows us to doff such civilized traits as taste and decency.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Ty Burr Boston Globe (Top Critic)

75

Bumptiously entertaining.
Full Review » 7 years ago
J. Hoberman Village Voice (Top Critic)

Funny, tense, and exceedingly well made ...
Full Review » 7 years ago
Jami Bernard New York Daily News (Top Critic)

[A] heist movie that mistakes bad taste for laughs.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Bruce Westbrook Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

50

The Ice Harvest is like Sin City without the bold style and crooked smile, disgorging grisly bloodbaths without drawing artful things out of them.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Chris Vognar Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)

67

Good, dirty fun.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Michael Booth Denver Post (Top Critic)

50

The Ice Harvest is too tepid to have much taste either way, and it ends up lulling us to apathy.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

75

The movie, directed by Harold Ramis, finds a balance between the goofy and the gruesome.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Steven Rea Philadelphia Inquirer (Top Critic)

75

[A]s an antidote to the sugary confections of the season, its hung-over cynicism works wonders.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Colin Covert Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top Critic)

50

The Ice Harvest aims to be a comedy crime caper that's light as a bubble, but too many crooks spoil the froth.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Tom Long Detroit News (Top Critic)

42

The Ice Harvest is indeed a cold movie, and aside from a few nice wise-cracking death scenes, it never really does pick up any heat.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Bill Muller Arizona Republic (Top Critic)

20

It's entirely possible that Billy Bob Thornton and John Cusack phoned in their parts in The Ice Harvest. But in these modern times, they probably e-mailed.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Andrew Sarris New York Observer (Top Critic)

Nielsen's Renata is icy cold in her calculations, and an object lesson in how to play a lethal charmer plausibly without losing any of her erotic appeal. She alone is worth the price of admission.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Lisa Nesselson Variety (Top Critic)

A treat for grown up audiences with an ear for sardonic dialogue.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Lou Lumenick New York Post (Top Critic)

75

The Ice Harvest is a treat for everyone who hates holidays.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Roger Moore Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

40

[A] woefully miscalculated, distressingly unfunny dark comedy in the Grifters mold.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Susan Walker Toronto Star (Top Critic)

63

... a thriller that's not very thrilling but is as violent as the best of them.
Full Review » 7 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

63

This is strictly B-movie fare.
Full Review » 7 years ago
John DeFore Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

The film never convinces us that its main characters really belong in this seamy world.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

80

The Ice Harvest is as smooth as a dry martini, and it's an unalloyed pleasure to behold Cusack and Thornton playing off each other.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Fernando F. Croce CinePassion

Dead cold
Full Review » 3 years ago