Synopsis
When two brothers are stranded by a brutal winter storm with an unpredictable father they barely know, the boys begin to suspect their supposed protector may be their biggest threat.
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Cast
- Joel KinnamanElliot Baker
- Tom HollandBradley Baker
- Rachelle LefevreKaren
- Percy Hynes WhiteCaleb Baker
- Rossif SutherlandLuc
- Shiloh FernandezRichard
- Shaun BensonTed
- Patrick GarrowGas Station Clerk
Recommendations
- 75
RogerEbert.com
A very suspenseful, atmospheric mounting and sharp acting by its small but expert cast. - 60
Los Angeles Times
A frostbitten B-movie can still provide a little welcome relief in the dead of summer. Edge of Winter suffices as a diverting breath of recycled cool air. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
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. - 50
Slant Magazine
One comes to resent the film for how it thrills to the possibility of a father hurting his children. - 50
Movie Nation
Connolly’s film, formerly titled less poetically, “Backcountry,” has a lovely, wintry tone and a few minor surprises. The action sequences are competently handled, even if there’s little real suspense about what is coming and where this is going. - 50
Village Voice
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. - 50
The New York Times
[A] competent but slight thriller. - 50
IndieWire
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.
