Barely escaping an avalanche during a family ski vacation in the Alps, a married couple is thrown into disarray as they are forced to reevaluate their lives and how they feel about each other. Inspired by the motion picture FORCE MAJEURE by Ruben Östlund.... (Full plot summary below)
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Barely escaping an avalanche during a family ski vacation in the Alps, a married couple is thrown into disarray as they are forced to reevaluate their lives and how they feel about each other. Inspired by the motion picture FORCE MAJEURE by Ruben Östlund.
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| Film ThreatAlan NgI loved Downhill for precisely what it meant to be—a character-driven comedy working its way through a painful and real conflict. |
| Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattAs an attempt to scale the craggy heights of a marriage in crisis, Downhill may be more bunny slope than black diamond — a force mineure, but still worth the trip. |
| The Film StageJake Kring-SchreifelsDownhill brings its characters to the brink of somewhere exciting but never commits to a full descent. |
| Austin ChronicleSteve DavisTo its credit, Downhill strives to remain character-driven rather than devolve into a jokey take on a delicate premise. |
| Vanity FairRichard LawsonDownhill is a clever movie when it could have been profound, had, perhaps, Faxon and Rash been willing—or capable—of digging deeper. |
| VarietyOwen GleibermanThe story worked brilliantly before. In Downhill, it works…well enough. The new movie is a teasing trifle with something real on its mind. |
| New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriIt can’t quite match the power of Östlund’s film, or its bemused, clinical (dare I say Scandinavian?) sensibility, but it has an awkward, American charm all its own. |
| SlashfilmChris EvangelistaWhile the material they’re working with may not be great, it is fun to see Louis-Dreyfus and Ferrell go head-to-head. Maybe they can try doing that again sometime in the future. With a better script. |
| The PlaylistJason BaileyThe value of Downhill comes from merging this story with these two distinct comic personas, and seeing what they do with it (and each other). That’s probably not enough of a reason for it to exist. But it’s not nothing, either. |
| IndieWireKate ErblandIt’s hard to ever shake the sense that everyone would be much better off just queuing up Östlund’s film and moving on. |
