Thin Ice is a good movie, and depending on your tastes, this may even be a great movie. It's well written, well acted, well shot.

Full Review | Mar 24, 2021

Thin Ice is just too thin to keep from cracking and sinking...fast.

Full Review | Nov 26, 2019

Your bad guy needs to be really bad, and when he gets it in the end, it is so gratifying, it's all worth it. This movie delivers in spades.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 9, 2018

Thin Ice's troubled production history - the film was famously taken away from director Jill Sprecher and re-edited following its Sundance premiere - can't quite dampen what is, for the most part, an entertaining little comedy/thriller...

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 22, 2013

The characters are endearingly flawed, the set-up is mischievously appealing and the story is endlessly surprising. The humour is black, the resolution audacious.

Full Review | Jun 29, 2013

In the vein of Fargo and A Simple Plan, Thin Ice is a delicious black crime comedy that melts before our eyes

Full Review | Jun 29, 2013

It builds suspense slowly and surely as things begin to come apart for Kinnear, but it eventually grows tiresome and the twist ending is still a bit hard to swallow.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 4, 2012

...the film that has made its way into theaters is no disgrace to any of the names in the credits. Still, it would be very interesting to see the movie that the Sprechers intended to make.

Full Review | Original Score: 88/100 | Apr 29, 2012

The movie's gently snowbound Midwestern setting blunts some of the story's harsher edges, and the characters mostly feel real.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 26, 2012

... the ride is pretty giddy ...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 16, 2012

Cracks show in Thin Ice

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Apr 6, 2012

The only things differentiating Thin Ice from Fargo? A lack of Midwestern accents and entertainment value.

Full Review | Apr 6, 2012

It's just a little slow getting started.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 6, 2012

The movie never fully clicks.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 5, 2012

Sprecher and her co-writer sister Karen seem to have gone through a card file of used ideas to cobble together this black comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 3, 2012

An amusingly nerve-wracking trek into the snow and out onto the ice with those funny folks in the land of "you betcha."

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 23, 2012

It's convoluted and clever, and on that score it works quite nicely. But if you're looking for something substantial beyond this, you're looking for a different movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 21, 2012

A climactic twist tries to make the movie that preceded it more interesting in retrospect than it was while it unfolded, but the plot is too implausible -- too unbelievable, really -- to be clever.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 19, 2012

Thin Ice is choppy, its tone jumps, it has an unnecessary voice-over, and one wonders about the easy, sappy ending. One also wonders what the original movie was like before it fell through the thin ice of manipulation.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 15, 2012

...has the requisite twists and turns of a good whodunit and entertains right to the end.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Mar 14, 2012