SummaryRecently divorced and laid off from his job, Elliot Baker (Joel Kinnaman) is desperate to spend more time bonding with his sons, Bradley (Tom Holland) and Caleb (Percy Hynes White). What starts as family day trip to teach his boys how to shoot turns into a nightmare when they become stranded. As they retreat to a desolate cabin, Elliot's mounting... Read More
Directed By:Rob Connolly
Written By:Kyle Mann, Rob Connolly
Edge of Winter
Metascore
Mixed or Average
50
User score
Generally Favorable
6.9
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
11% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
78% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
11% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Aug 12, 2016
75
A very suspenseful, atmospheric mounting and sharp acting by its small but expert cast.
Aug 11, 2016
60
Kinnaman delivers a superb turn.... Holland and White also are excellent as the boys who still love their father even while becoming ever more aware of his failings. Their quietly terrified reactions to his escalating belligerence is far more emotionally wrenching than the tired thriller genre conventions to which the film ultimately succumbs.
Aug 14, 2016
50
This is irrefutably Kinnaman’s movie, but Connolly fatally undervalues him. He doesn’t trust his actor to walk the emotional tightrope his film stretches taut before him, to sell us on the idea of a father digging himself deeper into a hole of his own design.
Aug 11, 2016
50
Director Rob Connolly may well think he's upping the stakes by plunging his film into borderline horror territory, but in fact he's minimizing them.
Aug 5, 2016
50
One comes to resent the film for how it thrills to the possibility of a father hurting his children.
Aug 18, 2016
38
Kinnaman, a Swede, is good in small doses – say, as Mireille Enos’s sidekick in the TV series The Killing – but he’s no leading man. He gives us zero insight into Elliot, so he never makes us care about him. This film will be remembered (if at all) as one of the things Holland did before he was Spider-Man.
User score
Generally Favorable
56% Positive
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11% Negative
1 Rating
1 Rating
Dec 10, 2016
5
I really didn't know what to expect with this, but the desolate winter setting and Kinnaman lured me into watching it. While the first 15 min are reasonably decent as the tone is set, it dwindles into dullness and senselessness the rest of the way with almost no plotting or substance. It's essentially Kinnaman losing his mind with his kids and beating people to a pulp in the snow.
Production Company:
- Independent Edge Films
- JoBro Productions & Film Finance
- Drive Films
- TAJJ Media
- Téléfilm Canada
- Northern Ontario Heritage Fund
- Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC)
- Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit (CPTC)
- Province of British Columbia
- Creative BC
Release Date:Aug 12, 2016
Duration:1 h 29 m
Rating:R
Tagline:Nothing is more dangerous than a father's love.
Awards
Northern Ontario Music and Film Awards
• 1 Nomination
