Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Bumpy Chip It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

torstensonjohn A film that resonates with the audience comes across very few times that sticks with you. This is a movie that is driven by it's character's and the plotline. A poverty stricken young girl who is stuck with a ill mother and raising her young siblings. It is a mystery and drama based film with Jennifer Lawrence at the helm as it's lead playing Rhee the oldest of three kids.Set in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri Rhee is forced to try and keep her family home when her drug making father disappears. As the story develops we see the raw emotion from these characters. A truly telling story of how poverty stricken the families are in these areas, it's about survival and family at it's core. Winter's Bone won several awards, including the Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Film at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. It also received four 2011 Academy Award nominations: Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actress for Lawrence and Best Supporting Actor for John Hawkes who played Teardrop.A rich film full of entertaining value and the audience is delivered a satisfying story. Jennifer Lawrence in her 1rst true major role that showcases her talent. A solid 7 out of 10

WubsTheFadger Short and Sweet Review by WubsTheFadgerThe acting all around is quite good. The exception is that of Jennifer Lawrence's character. I have never seen Jennifer as a good actress, she has a very boring, mellow, and dry acting style that gets old after a while. Some of her lines sounded like she was reading off of a page. Her character has no depth and she did not have any redeeming factors or qualities at all. The story is deathly slow. Most of the movie is very boring. The premise is good but the execution is bad. The story is not bad but it could have been handled a little bit better.The Ozark scenery is the only redeeming factor in this film. The cinematography is beautiful at times. Pros: Great cinematography, some good acting, interesting storyCons: Jennifer Lawrence's performance, a large amount of boring moments during the film, bad pacing, poor execution in regard to the storyOverall: 4/10

Andres-Camara It is an ode to freedom, a good independent film uses, but the style uses.We should not be influenced to know how Jennifer Lawrence got the role, who did the casting twice, a good girl and did not take it for that and then came back without sleep two days and without bathing and was when they selected it, but is that great . I would say it was his best part.The movie comes to you. He catches you and will not let you go. It's one of those movies that you believe it all.The picture you have is great. It has a cold photograph, like everything that happens in the film. It counts, accompanies and is beautiful.The direction, although it is a little long, although it does not make nice plans, nor knows how to narrate with the camera, but it is very simple, but at least it has made a film that you like to see.It's a movie that will remain

supatube It's been seven years since its release so i figured i'd give it a shot because Jennifer Lawrence is really great at her craft. Boy what a let down. The story is really depressing but on top of that it's really boring. Slow paced and boring. I figured this was done to really get into this young girls problem but the only thing that's prevalent is how these kids she's doing all of this for will probably grow up and be like everyone else in this horrible town. On top of that the accent is so hard to understand, it's not so much that they speak English as it is they chew the language and spit it on the floor. I might have enjoyed it more if more of the towns folk landed up dead. But they don't. Just a slow boring ride on a broken roller-coaster towards a really obvious ending. The mystery wasn't mysterious, the tension wasn't very tense and the family wan't worth saving. The acting was good, but what does that matter if the characters are just plain awful...?