Reviews

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  ★★★★★ review by Erika on Letterboxd

  The score to this movie by Explosions in the Sky is one of my all time favorites, it's just the most pleasant sounding thing imaginable.

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  ★★★★ review by Sam Van Hallgren on Letterboxd

  I want to have seen this movie 12 times already so I could commit the entirety of its dialogue to Lebowski-like levels of memory.

  There's not a false note in this absurdist chamber work. We knew you had it in you, Greenie.

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  ★★★½ review by Matt Singer on Letterboxd

  A lovely return to form for David Gordon Green that, at least as I interpret it, is kind of about the fact that he needed a return to form in the worst possible way. At that point, you burn it all down and draw up a new path out of the wilderness.

  This is a good movie with one truly astounding sequence. You'll know it when you see it; it features Paul Rudd stumbling on a woman in the rubble of an old house.

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  ★★★★½ review by Andy Ferguson on Letterboxd

  Those who have called David Gordon Green's new film, Prince Avalanche, a perfect blend of each style of film he has experimented with over the last 15 years, could not be more right. Green saw something in the 2011 Icelandic film, Either Way, something that he could translate to a specific area in Southern America and apply his singular vision.

  This simultaneously feels like a step back into his roots and a step forward into the next phase in a fascinatingly diverse - if not always satisfying - career. Green's first three films (and possibly his fourth, Snow Angels) would all be included in my 100 favorite films of the 2000's. At one point I was so obnoxiously in love with both All the Real Girls and Undertow, that I was quick to call DGG my favorite filmmaker. That was a bit of a premature statement at the time, but I have never really stopped getting the sweats with anticipation each time Green is set to unveil a new film. Sure, Your Highness and The Sitter made me scratch my head a little bit, but here comes Prince Avalanche, swooping in to calm all of the minor doubts that were starting to surface regarding his body of work.

  It's extremely nice to see a focus on his actors again, because over the last few years it seems that the material in Green's films kind of takes away from an ensemble's impact. Prince Avalanche is completely a character piece, of which there are three leads: Paul Rudd, Emile Hirsch, and the devastated-by-wildfires area of Bastrop, Texas. Rudd and Hirsch each give one of the more memorable performances of their entire careers, and they handle Green's oddball, endearing, introspectively funny words with a sort of playful profundity that permeates throughout every second of the movie. Combine all of these great elements with a seamless companion score by Explosions in the Sky and frequent Green collaborator, David Wingo, not to mention another beautiful job well done by cinematographer Tim Orr, and you have one of the best films I've seen this year.

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  ★★★★ review by The Armando Jimenez on Letterboxd

  Emile Hirsch as Lance:
  
  So I hit the bars with some buddies and we had some cocktails. Right away, I saw two chicks who would totally have partied with me. I'd actually...I'd actually screwed one of them before, which was ok, but she had these fat little legs, which I found a bit bizarre. And whenever we would make love, she would always flap her arms up and down like she was trying to fly.

  Paul Rudd as Alvin:
  
  Maybe she was trying to escape.

  Lance:
  
  No, no no no. Orgasms. She just gets excited.

  Alvin:
  
  Fantastic.

  David Gordon Green knocked this one out of the park. Deep, profound visuals of the woods in just the right angles a la Where The Wild Things Are by Spike Jonze. Beautiful writing just like George Washington from The Criterion Collection.
  
  I am excited to see Halloween. As a cinephile, I am utterly embarrassed to say I have never watched any of them.
  
  It was fascinating to see how a simple story can be so intriguing.

  Lance LeGault as Truck Driver:
  
  Never sleep with the same woman more than three times. No matter how good it is, otherwise...You start to develop feelings. Feelings, that's how you feel.

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