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United States · 2010
Rated R · 1h 41m
Director Debra Granik
Starring Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Kevin Breznahan, Dale Dickey
Genre Drama
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Seventeen-year-old Ree Dolly sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond before disappearing. If she fails, Ree and her family will be turned out into the woods of the Ozarks, but if she challenges her outlaw kin's code of silence, she risks her life. Countless obstacles lie in her path, but she hacks through lies and evasions to piece together just what exactly happened.
In the end, the most interesting aspect of this quiet, sometimes frustrating, sometimes thrilling film is the way it teases out the intricate power structures that flourish even in as godforsaken (and lovely) a place as the Ozarks.
New York Magazine (Vulture) by David Edelstein
For all the horror, it's the drive toward life, not the decay, that lingers in the mind. As a modern heroine, Ree Dolly has no peer, and Winter's Bone is the year's most stirring film.
The Hollywood Reporter by John DeFore
Grim backwoods tale takes its time building momentum.
Again, Granik has foregrounded a bold woman, expertly balanced between fearlessness and Ree's own private nervousness.
Raw but utterly enveloping.
Granik has no taste for noir archness, opting for a chilly, shot-on-decaying-locations naturalism that feels as lived-in as Lawrence's performance.
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
One of the unshowiest and most true-blooded epics of Americana you're ever likely to see.
Rolling Stone by Peter Travers
Winter's Bone is unforgettable. It means to shake you, and does.
Boxoffice Magazine by Ray Greene
Winter's Bone so far past any notion of formula or precedent that comparison is a futile exercise. This film is a thing all its own.
Movieline by Stephanie Zacharek
Debra Granik's Winter's Bone is one of those movies -- like last year's inner-city down-a-thon, "Precious" -- that can't quite make a distinction between profundity and plain old bleakness.
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