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First Snow

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Germany, United States · 2006
Rated R · 1h 41m
Director Mark Fergus
Starring Guy Pearce, Piper Perabo, Steven Michael Quezada, J.K. Simmons
Genre Drama, Thriller

Jimmy is an ambitious salesman, certain he's on the brink of great success and wealth. When his car breaks down in a small New Mexico town, he passes the time by visiting a psychic. He grows paranoid when the psychic warns him he is fated to die during the first snow of the year.

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Village Voice by

First-time director Fergus's film is more a moody, tedious anti-thriller about ineluctable fate.

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New York Post by Lou Lumenick

It's déjà vu all over again for Aussie actor Guy Pearce, returning to motel rooms in the American Southwest to sort out metaphysical issues in the thriller First Snow, to somewhat less original effect than he did in "Memento."

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TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

Fergus' thriller benefits from Pearce's high-strung performance and the stark New Mexico landscapes, but the story is familiar and the pacing much too measured for a slight tale of ineluctable fate.

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The A.V. Club by Nathan Rabin

Pearce is usually dependable, but here, he's utterly unconvincing as a slick phony, and the film peddles a bogus bill of goods in kind.

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The Hollywood Reporter by Sheri Linden

The actors, all strong, give the lyrical but never artificial dialogue the ring of life. Pearce is riveting as a go-getter who finds himself trapped between a murky past and a future defined by ambition.

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The New York Times by Stephen Holden

A noirish thriller that revels in ominous visual moods, deepened by Cliff Martinez's spare, shivering guitar score, this heartland "Appointment in Samarra" is a mind-teaser that speaks the flat, evasive language of its seedy characters.

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