In Theaters
There are about two or three different films fighting for control during David Gordon Green’s powerful but flawed Snow Angels, and in the end none of them win. An adaptation from the Stewart O’Nan novel, the film is at its core a dispiriting domestic drama in which single mother and waitress Annie (Kate Beckinsale) is trying to raise her daughter and deal with the encroaching return of her ex-husband, Glenn (Sam Rockwell), a onetime suicide case and drunk who has now found Jesus and wants back into Annie’s life. Set to swirling all around this ugly and embittered core are several stories that never quite seem to plug into each other dramatically, no matter that their characters are closely interrelated via love, friendship, family, and the shockingly violent turn everything takes in the closing minutes.Snow Angels is playing now. You can read the full review at filmcritic.com.
