Thin Ice: Critic Reviews

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MovieWeb: 1 reviews

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Rotten Tomatoes: 57 reviews

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

75

Enjoyably fuses cleverness and sheer desperation.
Full Review » 1 year ago
A.O. Scott New York Times (Top Critic)

40

It would like to remind you of "Fargo" - what with all the snow, the grubbiness and greed, the exaggerated accents and off-kilter rhythms - and it kind of does, but in a dispiriting way.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Michael O'Sullivan Washington Post (Top Critic)

50

It's just a little slow getting started.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Ty Burr Boston Globe (Top Critic)

50

The movie never fully clicks.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Mark Holcomb Village Voice (Top Critic)

A surprisingly entertaining and nonderivative February time-passer, its wretched mid-winter Wisconsin setting notwithstanding.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Joe Neumaier New York Daily News (Top Critic)

60

With a wink, a nudge and a heaping portion of Midwestern charm, "Thin Ice" reels us in.
Full Review » 1 year ago
John Anderson Wall Street Journal (Top Critic)

It is Mr. Kinnear's slippery charm that keeps "Thin Ice" from sinking into the frosty Wisconsin slush toward which it seems to be heading from the start.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Roger Moore Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)

63

Ann amusingly nerve-wracking trek into the snow and out onto the ice with those funny folks in the land of "you betcha."
Full Review » 1 year ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

75

There's nothing like the macabre to bring intrigue to an ordinary life, and nothing like the logistics of body disposal to challenge an insurance salesman.
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Steven Rea Philadelphia Inquirer (Top Critic)

75

Thin Ice is deeper than it first appears.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Colin Covert Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top Critic)

88

This is an icy cocktail of greed, betrayal and murder to be savored.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Tom Long Detroit News (Top Critic)

50

At one point you're looking at the screen going, "This makes no sense!" Then after a long conclusionary explanation, you shake your head and say, "I'm still not sure that made much sense."
Full Review » 1 year ago
Bill Goodykoontz Arizona Republic (Top Critic)

70

Some may think of it as jayvee Coen brothers or Hitchcock -- the influences are obvious -- but Sprecher brings her own style to the movie.
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Kyle Smith New York Post (Top Critic)

75

Kinnear and director Jill Sprecher make you feel Mickey's squirming desperation, even if the ending feels like a cop-out.
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Betsy Sharkey Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

60

There is some sinister fun to be had in watching Kinnear skating toward disaster on ice that is very thin indeed.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Eric Melin Scene-Stealers.com

50

It builds suspense slowly and surely as things begin to come apart for Kinnear, but it eventually grows tiresome and the twist ending is still a bit hard to swallow.
Full Review » 9 months ago
Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

88

...the film that has made its way into theaters is no disgrace to any of the names in the credits. Still, it would be very interesting to see the movie that the Sprechers intended to make.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Chris Foran Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

63

The movie's gently snowbound Midwestern setting blunts some of the story's harsher edges, and the characters mostly feel real.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Jim Lane Sacramento News & Review

60

... the ride is pretty giddy ...
Full Review » 1 year ago
Tricia Olszewski Washington City Paper

The only things differentiating Thin Ice from Fargo? A lack of Midwestern accents and entertainment value.
Full Review » 1 year ago
James Verniere Boston Herald

59

Cracks show in Thin Ice
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Peter Keough Boston Phoenix

63

Sprecher and her co-writer sister Karen seem to have gone through a card file of used ideas to cobble together this black comedy.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Roger Moore McClatchy-Tribune News Service

63

An amusingly nerve-wracking trek into the snow and out onto the ice with those funny folks in the land of "you betcha."
Full Review » 1 year ago
Ken Hanke Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

80

It's convoluted and clever, and on that score it works quite nicely. But if you're looking for something substantial beyond this, you're looking for a different movie.
Full Review » 1 year ago
John Beifuss Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

50

A climactic twist tries to make the movie that preceded it more interesting in retrospect than it was while it unfolded, but the plot is too implausible -- too unbelievable, really -- to be clever.
Full Review » 1 year ago