4 stars out of 5 -- "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."
Los Angeles Times

"In Ms. Lawrence's watchful, precise and quietly heroic performance, Ree is like a modern-day Antigone, making ethical demands that are at once entirely coherent and potentially fatal."
New York Times

4 stars out of 4 -- "With this powerful, impeccably told story, co-writer/director Debra Granik has established herself as a supremely talented filmmaker."
USA Today

"[S]pectacular or its humanity, austere beauty and heart-stopping urgency..."
Wall Street Journal

4 stars out of 4 -- "Unmistakably filmed on location, this film focuses on a society that has been left behind....Lawrence embodies a fierce, still center..."
Chicago Sun-Times

"WINTER'S BONE is one of the unshowiest and most true-blooded epics of Americana you're ever likely to see....Lawrence is the movie's blooming discovery..." -- Grade: A
Entertainment Weekly

"Granik has no taste for noir archness, opting for a chilly, shot-on-decaying locations naturalism that feels as lived-in as Lawrence's performance." -- Grade: A
A.V. Club

4 stars out of 5 -- "With a face as impassively beautiful as the landscape she trudges through, Ree Dolly is a heroine you won't forget."
Total Film

5 stars out of 5 -- "[Granik] brings an astonishing authority to WINTER'S BONE, which the more you watch it seems a masterpiece of storytelling, lean and uncluttered, subtle and urgent."
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