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On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 76% of 88 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.4/10. The website's consensus reads: "Emma Thompson takes a polar plunge into action territory with Dead of Winter, a chilly thriller that wears one too many layers of backstory but still satisfies as a tense showcase for its estimable star." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 69 out of 100, based on 14 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.
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60 of 184 · most liked firstJust watched Dead of Winter which is a film that asks "what if Taken but instead of Liam Neeson it's Emma Thompson as a Minnesotan fisherwoman rescuing a girl from a derelict cabin and every time you, the watcher, say "That's not very sensible why didn't she do X?" she then does X very sensibly".
positive · AI labelView post →Now *I* am watching “Dead of Winter” (2025) which is set in northern Minnesota but filmed in Finland. It’s an Emma Thompson vehicle. Her accent is not bad. Data point: It takes 6 minutes into the movie for her to say “uff da.”
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm feeling pretty good about my #LastFourWatched although I clearly owe myself something a bit more lighthearted in the near future. #LetterboxdFriday Sopyonje (서편제), 1993 Dead of Winter, 2025 North Korean Partisan in South Korea (남부군), 1990 Sound of Falling, 2025
neutral · AI labelView post →#LetterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched 📽️ boxd.it/94Euv 1. Irma La Douce – Studio Paris, charm on overtime 2. Dead of Winter – Snow, suspicion, Thompson with a rifle 3. Broadway Danny Rose – Showbiz schmucks, big heart 4. Funny Girl – Streisand belts; story catches up later
neutral · AI labelView post →Four Favorites with mother and daughter duo, Emma Thompson and Gaia Wise 🎥 The pair's new film, Dead of Winter, premiered at the 78th Locarno Film Festival on August 8. On the same day, Thompson was honored with the Leopard Club Award for her decades-spanning career. youtu.be/s5o5nBjJKCE
neutral · AI labelView post →Isn't it time Emma Thompson starred in her own Die Hard movie? If your answer to this question is yes, you'll want to see Dead of Winter, in which ET plays a resourceful fisherwoman foiling kidney-thieves in the frozen north. It's silly, harmless fun, 3 out of 5 film-authority.com/2026/04/05/d...
neutral · AI labelView post →New Take out now! 🎬 🤩 Our super special guest is Paul Thomas Anderson 🎉 He talks ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER & that feeling when the movie Gods answer your prayers 🙏 Mark reviews it + ❄️ THE DEAD OF WINTER 🔪 THE STRANGERS: CHAPTER 2 🎧 Listen pod.fo/e/331734 Full show on YouTube 📺 tinyurl.com/dam63use
neutral · AI labelView post →Revisited Arthur Penn's DEAD OF WINTER, which is a stellar remake of Gothic British thriller MY NAME IS JULIA ROSS. Mary Steenburgen plays an actress asked to replace the star of an indie movie who finds herself in the middle of a nefarious blackmail plot orchestrated by Roddy McDowall & Jan Rubes
neutral · AI labelView post →Emma Thompson on how the elements of the cold helped to inform her performance in her latest film 'Dead Of Winter'. Now playing in theaters. For more of our interview go here: blackgirlnerds.com/interview-em...
neutral · AI labelView post →My review of The Dead Of Winter (dir. Brian Kirk) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au... #locarno #locarno78 #locarno2025
neutral · AI labelView post →I developed a roll of film for the first time since November last night. These are titled "Power Washing in the Dead of Winter." Photo taken December 2025 in Edmonton, Alberta. #believeinfilm #analog #photography #yeg #nikon #ilford
neutral · AI labelView post →#letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched Only two of these are from the past week. The unnamed one is DEAD OF WINTER, a film I thought aggressively mediocre and was surprised to discover was 100% fresh on RT (although based on just three reviews at the time).
negative · AI labelView post →When Mark's review is more entertaining than the movie itself 😬 Catch his full verdict on THE STRANGERS: CHAPTER 2 in the latest Take 🎬 + THE DEAD OF WINTER, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER & Paul Thomas Anderson 🤩 🎧 Listen pod.fo/e/331734 📺 Watch the full show on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXf-...
neutral · AI labelView post →#Junesploitation Day 9 #Thrillers! DEAD OF WINTER 1987 Day 10 #PrivateEyes! NIGHT MOVES 1975 Being a day behind turned an already thrilling film into a suspenseful Arthur Penn directed #DoubleFeature #FThisMovie @fthismovie.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching a movie called “Dead of Winter"...seems apropos tonight #blizzard
neutral · AI labelView post →DEAD OF WINTER (2025) Streaming: February 20, 2026 HBO Max #DeadOfWinter whentostream.com/emma-thompso...
neutral · AI labelView post →Holy shit @ohmyhorror.bsky.social, how are we already at the penultimate week, Winter Horror, of the #OhMyHorror Movie Challenge?! Not even 10 minutes into Arthur Penn's Dead of Winter and I can see that Mary Steenburgen is already making poor choices by sleeping with a Giants fan. #NowWatching
neutral · AI labelView post →Getting ready for Friday's release of winter Minnesota crime movie NORMAL*, watched winter Minnesota crime movie DEAD OF WINTER**. MN MOVIE ACCURACY ACCENTS: Good SCENERY: Nice SNOW DRIVING: Yup HOW FAST HOLES IN FROZEN LAKES ICE OVER: Wildly inaccurate * filmed in Manitoba ** filmed in Finland
neutral · AI labelView post →Judy Greer on what excited her the most on taking the role of "Purple Lady" in 'Dead Of Winter'. The film is now playing in theaters. For more of our interviews go here: blackgirlnerds.com/interview-em...
neutral · AI labelView post →My short film THE DEAD OF WINTER is playing in the inaugural Glowflare Horror Film Festival this weekend – and we're nominated for the Best Film Under £50K award! 👻❄️🏆 Details and tickets here: glowflarehorrorfestival.com
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight’s Film Selection🍿🎥🎬: Arthur Penn’s brilliant 1987 thriller “Dead of Winter starring Mary Steenburgen & the late, great Roddy McDowell. #TonightsFilmSelection
neutral · AI labelView post →It's The 12 Days of THE DEAD OF WINTER! To mark the film launching for rental on Entertainmint (all proceeds go to @launchpadrdg.bsky.social) here are 12 fun facts about it! 🧵 👻❄️🎄 www.entertainmint.com/projects/the...
neutral · AI labelView post →So this is exciting: my short film THE DEAD OF WINTER is getting its US premiere at Screamfest, in the Chinese Theater. Where STAR WARS and THE WIZARD OF OZ and KING KONG premiered. 🎬⭐🍿 screamfest2024.eventive.org/films/66e269...
neutral · AI labelView post →Introduce yourself with a TTRPG, book, board game, movie and TV show. 🎲 Monster of the Week 📖 The Player of Games ♟️ Dead of Winter 🎥 The Arrival 📺 Twin Peaks
neutral · AI labelView post →Joking aside, the movie this image is from ("Dead of Winter") is worth checking out. Sponge Bob is barely in it.
positive · AI labelView post →Can you feel a Christmas presence? 👻❄️ My short Christmas ghost story film THE DEAD OF WINTER is now available on ShortsTV and Prime Video, just in time for the festive season. ❄️👻 Screening as part of the "Christmas Stories" compilation: 🎄🎅 🛷 www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/det...
neutral · AI labelView post →Also DEAD OF WINTER made over a million dollars this weekend! Indie film is still alive, baby
neutral · AI labelView post →DEAD OF WINTER is a psychological thriller in theaters on Friday The film follows a widow (Emma Thompson) who stops by a remote cabin after getting lost & finds herself in a fight for survival with a killer (Judy Greer) Read our review of DEAD OF WINTER: theholofiles.com/2025/09/23/r...
neutral · AI labelView post →Two years ago my script for THE DEAD OF WINTER won the “Best Short Screenplay (Unfilmed)” award at Unrestricted View Horror Film Festival 2021. Now it's screening at the 2023 edition! Tickets here: www.unrestrictedview.co.uk/unrestricted...
neutral · AI labelView post →the actual movie this is from, Dead of Winter, is a very good thriller
positive · AI labelView post →My short film THE DEAD OF WINTER has its US premiere today at Screamfest, in Hollywood's Chinese Theater! 👻❄️🇺🇸
positive · AI labelView post →I'm on 41 of the 100 best 80s horror per Rotten Tomatoes. The film Dead of Winter (1987). Quite the film... Very different role for Mary Steenburgen.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched DEAD OF WINTER with a sterling Emma Thompson as a grieving widow accidentally caught in other people's madness. Quite good, oddly moving if silly. And to all the critics on Rotten Tomatoes who think comparing every movie set in a Minnesota winter to Fargo is clever, please find another job.
positive · AI labelView post →DEAD OF WINTER is a surprisingly decent action movie starring Emma Thompson in what I guess we have to call the Liam Neeson role. On HBO now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=klGR...
positive · AI labelView post →Call Me … on the big screen at Ithaca’s Regal; so immersive that I was surprised it was still winter when I emerged. HBO: made for catching up with movies like Alto Knights (not terrible, just … why?) & Dead of Winter (solid). Thx to Mubi for making the locally lensed My First Film widely available.
positive · AI labelView post →Emma Thompson is so fucking gahdamn good. Dead of Winter is a weird little film.
neutral · AI labelView post →I really enjoyed Dead of Winter. I know people thought the flashbacks really slowed the movie down, but I thought it was effective. Could also watch an entire movie on just the villains—wish I got more about them! #LastFourWatched
positive · AI labelView post →Emma Thompson vs Judy Greer on paper is a match-up that immediately has my attention. They star in #DeadofWinter which opens today in theaters. I found it to be an absorbing thriller that's also an effective meditation on loss. My @avclub.com review: www.avclub.com/dead-of-wint...
positive · AI labelView post →Brian Kirk’s thriller Dead of Winter, starring Emma Thompson & Judy Greer, opens in theaters tonight. www.metacritic.com/movie/dead-o... “A thrillingly tense game of kill-or-be-killed.” - Kevin Maher, The Times
neutral · AI labelView post →Emma Thompson Action-Thriller ‘Dead of Winter’ Picked Up by Vertigo for U.K., Ireland (EXCLUSIVE) variety.com/2025/film/ne...
neutral · AI labelView post →Welcome to Dead of Winter Entertainment! Check out our website deadofwinterentertainment.com for all of your Horror movie and podcasts needs! #horrror #horrormovie #horrorpodcast #horrorconvention #independent
neutral · AI labelView post →The "dead" in movie Dead Of Winter has two meanings as does the short focus on a sign-Dead End.Fairly good thriller with Emma Thompson(changing genres for a change).
positive · AI labelView post →The Minnesota accent is not a feature of the movie, unlike Fargo or more recently Dead of Winter. The scenery and locations were passably Minnesotan. The snow was plentiful and not too fakey. The credits listed a lot of crew members who worked on the snow.
neutral · AI labelView post →New Emma Thompson movie on HBO-Dead of Winter About 10 mins into it. I think it'll be good
positive · AI labelView post →New entry for 'Disheveled Emma Thompson Film Fest' and the best one yet. DEAD OF WINTER. 5 disheveled Emma Thompson stars. THE MOST BEAUTIFUL EMMA THOMPSON SMILE OF ANY MOVIE YET. Life, death, heroism, and it has Emma Thompson being real, giving speeches. MUST SEE. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_of...
positive · AI labelView post →The still is from Dead of Winter: Emma Thompson movie from 2025. Fantastic popcorn flick with a heart of gold, just watched yesterday and can't stop thinking about it. At one point Thompson delivers a monologue that I am about to screen in a class where I'll be lecturing on Camus' Myth of Sisyphus.
positive · AI labelView post →Nice memory of working at Hampstead Waterstones, serving a very pregnant Emma Thompson and asking if she'd thought of any names yet. "We're thinking of Gaia", she said. Now watching Gaia play the younger adult version of her in 'Dead of Winter' and feeling life passes by in a number of blinks.
positive · AI labelView post →And now DEAD OF WINTER #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →27 September 1922 – 2010 Arthur Penn, 88, US filmmaker. The Left Handed Gun (1958) * The Miracle Worker (1959 Tony Award + film OscarNom) The Chase * Bonnie and Clyde + Alice's Restaurant (both OscarNom) Little Big Man * Night Moves * The Missouri Breaks * Dead of Winter * Law and Order (Producer)
neutral · AI labelView post →A woman alone in the middle of a snowy wilderness discovers that a teenager has been kidnapped and that she may be the only person who can save her, in Dead Of Winter www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/the-d... #filmsky 🎬
neutral · AI labelView post →ICYMI: My Christmas ghost story short film THE DEAD OF WINTER is now available to rent on Entertainmint, with all proceeds going to @launchpadrdg.bsky.social! 👻❄️🎄 entertainmint.com/projects/the...
positive · AI labelView post →Playing at Hell-Tor Festival in Exeter on September 22, preceded by my short film THE DEAD OF WINTER! 🧛♂️ exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/dracu...
positive · AI labelView post →I recently walked into the wrong screening at the cinema and saw the last sixty minutes of Dead of Winter, piecing together what was happening and what I was watching was actually really fun and instructive for how I view art. That film isn't very good
negative · AI labelView post →We used a clip of the 1935 Scrooge in my short film The Dead of Winter, since it's out of copyright. On ShortsTV and Prime Video now, in this compilation: watch.amazon.co.uk/detail?gti=a...
positive · AI labelView post →Had a nice day with my South African friend who used to live here but is now living in Australia. She’s over for a week. Had lunch out and are going to see “Dead Of Winter” at the local cinema (which we used to frequent before she moved). I hope the film isn’t too scary.😧 youtu.be/lHkkAlg8N6g?...
neutral · AI labelView post →My review of The Dead Of Winter (dir. Brian Kirk) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au... (it premiered at Locarno in the summer and gets its UK release today)
neutral · AI labelView post →The movie was "Dead of Winter" starring Emma Thompson as a Minnesota widow that tries rescuing a girl kidnapped by some people that want to harvest her organs or something. It was the most "Netflix Original Movie" I've ever seen in the theater. Still, better than my couch!
neutral · AI labelView post →Dead of Winter – The new thriller, starring Emma Thompson and Judy Greer, gets a poster. Trailer and details here bit.ly/3VaQ5tH #DeadofWinter #film #EmmaThompson #JudyGreer #BrianKirk
neutral · AI labelView post →Emma Thompson must save a young woman in the Dead of Winter trailer. Watch it here bit.ly/4lq8GMQ #DeadofWinterFilm #EmmaThompson #JudyGreer #film #BrianKirk
neutral · AI labelView post →Dead Of Winter is coming up. Friendly Filmmaker has a vendor table, a film, and a special announcement coming. As well as a MAJOR unveiling! I can’t wait. Please get your tix and visit our booth!! ❤️ 🎞️ ❄️ www.deadofwinterentertainment.com/festival
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