Edge of Winter

This film will be remembered (if at all) as one of the things Holland did before he was Spider-Man.

Suicide Squad survivor Joel Kinnaman is aces in this otherwise iffy survival thriller.

Director Rob Connolly (who co-wrote the script with Kyle Mann) has an understated but sharply honed visual sense that keeps the drama taut and engaging throughout.

Competent but slight ...

"Edge of Winter" suffices as a diverting breath of recycled cool air.

Some films do a slow burn. And some burn so slowly that they risk having their fire go out completely. Edge of Winter is, alas, of the latter variety.

Kinnaman's weekend father is a return to form, a twitchy, deeply flawed character we can't help rooting for even as we fear the worst ... He reminded me of Nicholson in 'The Shining' ...

Edge of Winter is still frosty enough to cut through its sometimes inert tone and a flat soundtrack.

There's a shift in perspective around the hour mark that doesn't work as elegantly as it should, but the cast carry it over the hump.

Almost works better as a revenge tale between a tree and a logger than it does a suspenseful story of survival. (It does not work well as either.)

A powerfully acted exercise in suspense and a hair-raising depiction of parental love gone wrong, Edge of Winter is nothing short of magnetic.