
A dishonest insurance salesman's life quickly disintegrates during a Wisconsin winter when he teams up with a psychopath to steal a rare violin at the home of a reclusive farmer.... (Full plot summary below)
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A dishonest insurance salesman's life quickly disintegrates during a Wisconsin winter when he teams up with a psychopath to steal a rare violin at the home of a reclusive farmer.
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| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThis is a devilishly ingenious screenplay by the sisters Jill and Karen Sprecher. |
| The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe movie takes some dark, violent turns once Crudup enters the picture, and loses some of its initial soft, regional charm. But Kinnear and Crudup are funny, and the plot does fold together with the kind of cruel logic that these sorts of twist-a-thons often lack. |
| Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaWriting with her sister, Karen, Jill Sprecher rigs up an elaborate cause-and-effect comedy of errors, with Kinnear's predatory protagonist as both perp and victim. I won't say more than that, but Thin Ice is deeper than it first appears. |
| CineVueMartyn ConterioBlack Coal, Thin Ice is a majestic neo-noir. |
| The TelegraphTim RobeyIf Diao’s intent on confounding us, he has the courtesy to do it with frequently astonishing style and verve. |
| VarietyScott FoundasA bleak but powerful, carefully controlled detective thriller in which — as with all the best noirs — there are no real heroes or villains, only various states of compromise. |
| New York PostKyle SmithThe cheesehead noir Thin Ice presents Greg Kinnear in a role that's almost too easy for him: He's a morally flexible Wisconsin insurance salesman for whom honesty is the least-likely policy. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThrow in a nagging divorce settlement, an unplanned murder, and Billy Crudup - hilarious! - as a raging security man, and Jill Sprecher's film enjoyably fuses cleverness and sheer desperation. |
| St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsThin Ice resides just slightly south of "Fargo." |
| Village VoiceMark HolcombWorking the long con and damn near getting away with it, this kissing cousin to "Fargo," "Cedar Rapids," and "Win Win" makes for a surprisingly entertaining and nonderivative February time-passer. |