The Ice Storm

I love Ang Lee as a director and I thought this was his best work and that is saying a lot! All of the actors were great but one perfomance in particular held my interest and that was none other than... Full review

One of the worst movies I ever saw. Sleazy characters, a message woven to satisfy a director's fantasies. Dumb way to get the movie's message out. I'm not jumping on the critic's bandwagon. This was junk. Why would anyone care about... Full review

Incredible movie. Great acting. Often funny. I feel the themes are still quite valid in today's culture. Joan Allen is an amazing actress.... Full review

If you knew the 70's, this is a must see. Awesome cinematography, great acting, great music and an excellent story. Reminded me of my childhood in many ways.... Full review

Having lived through the real Quebec Ice Storm of 1998, I thought I was going to enjoy this film - I was wrong. This movie is mildly entertaining at best. Its portrayal of "characters in angst" is somewhat vague. Although I... Full review

The Ice Storm is by far one of the best films I've seen. I originally saw it due to my love of Elijah Wood's acting. He was excellent in this film and the cast surrounding him were perfect. It was a... Full review

This is one of the best films I've ever seen. The acting is flawless as well as the direction. I was impressed with how great the acting really was. Tobey Maguire, Keven Kline, Elijah Wood, and Christina Ricci did the the... Full review

I was compelled to view this film after hearing so many favorable comments about it over the years. I was quite disappointed actually. Good performances by the actors involved, but very bleak storyline. I understand that this is meant to be... Full review

people loved it but i found it to be depressing and not very enjoyable. must've been kevin kline's fault. him and william hurt have that tendency to make you hate a film. can be effective but dull overall... Full review

I had to actually watch this more than once to really feel it. Very dark movie...good acting. Strange though is the only word I can use to really describe it. Its ok though.... Full review

A cold, somewhat distant, yet oddly intriguing film from director Ang Lee ("Sense and Sensibility"), "The Ice Storm" is aptly named.....the performances are uniformly solid, the production design and costumes impressively authentic, the direction aptly understated..... ... Full Review

The film's wonderful soundtrack is the highlight of the sound design, yet strangely, Criterion continues to provide minimal language tracks or subtitling.....Sigourney Weaver with the surging young talents of Christina Ricci, Elijah Wood....Featurettes on the film's look and literary inspiration are also well worth a look, giving breadth to this highly literary film.....Tobey Maguire, whom the director liked enough to cast in his follow-up, the largely underappreciated Ride with the Devil ..... ... Full Review

The costumes in the film reflect a special emphasis on '70s culture. And Lee and film editor Tim Squyres tie the film together in the masterful, interwoven tension of the night of the storm. ... Full Review

In the end, when everything is slick, covered in ice and dead silent, the images that elliptically glide by in The Ice Storm 's brilliant, haunting climax will stick with viewers more than anything. Even though Lee had already been routinely topping his own achievements for years, in two languages, it still seemed that critics were unprepared for the thoroughly brilliant suburban bonding and clandestine clinches that take place in what is likely his best film to date, The Ice Storm . ... Full Review

Add to that an almost poetic script (by Wang Hui Ling, Tsai Kuo Jung and James Schamus, whose Mandarin-to-English subtitle translations are very well done), Tan Dun's gorgeous score and spectacular action scenes. ... Full Review

Think of it as The Ice Storm lite-there's less sex, drugs and angst, but the themes are the same. Living on Long Island in the late '70s, Scott (Rory Culkin) is an awkward 15-year-old boy with a bully problem and... ... Full Article

Send to a friend I have so little interest in Ang Lees second English-language feature "The Ice Storm" (1997) that I dont even feel like providing an argument as to why I have so little interest in it. ... Full Article

Thanksgiving weekend in 1973, Ang Lee's second English-language film (following Sense and Sensibility ) captures a semi-affluent Connecticut family gathering in the suburbs as Watergate plays out on television and a dangerous storm closes in. ... Full Article

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"Lust, Caution" is a disappointment coming from director Ang Lee, but it's a watchable one, and it rattles around in your head for a long time after you've seen it, as much for what it does right as for where ... Full Article

A perpetually growing favorite of mine, Taiwanese director Ang Lee, again returns with a strong, unique piece of cinematic art, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Lee returns to his native tongue for this martial arts extravaganza that traverses not just the... ... Full Article