Review: Winter in Wartime [blu-ray]

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Winter in Wartime [blu-ray]
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While the film operates at its best as visual genre fare, it suffers tremendously from some serious melodramatic slow motion moments, including a cringe inducing scene where Michiel is running towards the town square to stop an execution.

Nicholas Bell
Nicholas Bell
Los Angeles based Nicholas Bell is IONCINEMA.com's Chief Film Critic and covers film festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, Cannes and TIFF. He is part of the critic groups on Rotten Tomatoes, The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), FIPRESCI, the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) and GALECA. His top 3 for 2023: The Beast (Bonello) Poor Things (Lanthimos), Master Gardener (Schrader). He was a jury member at the 2019 Cleveland International Film Festival.

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