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27 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- White Bird in a Blizzard is worth seeing for Eva Green’s performance alone, and to experience the dreamlike quality of Gregg Araki’s individual, highly unique vision of cinema.
- 70VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeIt’s naughty, campy and wildly uneven.
- 60Film.comJordan HoffmanFilm.comJordan HoffmanThere’s just too much good stuff to dismiss White Bird in a Blizzard out of hand, even if it does have a somewhat dull and desultory plot.
- 60The DissolveNoel MurrayThe DissolveNoel MurrayBecause the tone is so erratic, it’s hard to know whether its anticlimactic quality is a botch on Araki’s part, or a purposeful bit of genre subversion.
- 60Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfYounger audiences will see "The Fault in Our Stars’" Shailene Woodley once again excelling in an emotionally tricky role: Kat, a 17-year-old blooming into her wild years while reckoning with an increasingly unhinged mother, Eve (Eva Green, crazy-eyed and just this side of Faye Dunaway).
- 60Village VoiceDanny KingVillage VoiceDanny KingIf the results are occasionally broad and schematic, the actors (Woodley especially) are anything but, and Araki has an absolute field day adorning his kitschy, 1950s-ish view of suburban Los Angeles with a string of showoffy colors.
- 50Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenGregg Araki's film suggests a hothouse melodrama that's been drained of the hothouse, the melodrama, and any other discernably dramatic stakes.
- 40The GuardianHenry BarnesThe GuardianHenry BarnesNothing really adds up to much, past a solid performance from Woodley and the energetic - if out-of-place - turn from Green.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyAs detrimental as anything to the film’s effectiveness are the visuals, which are murky, lack compositional interest and do the actors no favors.
- 38McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreMcClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreWhatever its intent, White Bird in a Blizzard misuses most everybody involved, especially the dazzling young star of “The Descendants,””The Fault in Our Stars” and “Divergent.”