Winter's Bone

"Raw but utterly enveloping."

"The film's realism is a point of entry rather than the whole point of the exercise. Its setting is finally subordinate to the main character, as memorable and vivid a heroine as you are likely to see on screen this season."

"This is one helluva drama, with one helluva star turn by Jennifer Lawrence as Ree."

"The movie heroes who affect me most are not extroverted. They don't strut, speechify and lead armies. They have no superpowers. They are ordinary people who are faced with a need and rise to the occasion. Ree Dolly is such a hero."

"An ice-blue cold seeps from almost every frame of this adaptation of Daniel Woodrell's 2006 novel."

"Intense, immersive and in control, Winter's Bone has an art house soul inside a B picture body, and that proves to be a potent combination indeed."

"Grim backwoods tale takes its time building momentum."

"A vivid reworking of Daniel Woodrell's novel that brings the book's conflicted heroine to searing life in a piece of unhurried filmmaking too rarely seen these days."

"It is wrenching and unashamed drama of the very best kind. Look for it as the darkest of dark horses at the Oscars. But in the meantime, just go to see it. This might just be the finest drama of the year so far"