Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Great Film overall

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

I like the premise of this story, I like the subtle back story telling, I didn't like the depiction of Cat's casual promiscuity and the nudity was a bit gratuitous. The so-called plot twist at the end is not in keeping with the story. To start, the wife is obviously unsatisfied with their sex life, but since she is an emasculating bitch, it's not surprising her husband is unable to rectify that situation. He does exhibit upset when she dallies with a neighbor and has enough mojo to jerk off to a Hustler magazine. Cat and her boyfriend are very interested in each other and the sudden ghosting goes along with the wife's overt behaviour towards the boyfriend. The twist comes when we see the husband and the boyfriend in bed and that's when the husband kills the wife? Again, there is virtually nothing that points in that direction, it would be more sensible keep with the story line already presented. I think the insertion of homosexuality is just bizarre and spoils the movie. The Mrs. Robinson aspect makes more sense and is more true to life.

In 1988, a teenage girl's life is thrown into chaos when her mother disappears. The problem with White Bird in a Blizzard is how it chooses to use represent it's characters and how it's so tough to actually feel bad about someone in this movie for example it was really weird to see Thomas Jane and Shailene Woodley sleeping together, the word F*ck was in like every single scene and the ending was horrible in more ways than one. Now the good stuff except the nude scenes Woodley is very different both in the way she looks and acts and she really challenged herself a lot, Eva Green was good but her character didn't got enough screen time, Christopher Meloni ruined the film for me he was good until that ending came out this film is definitely much better than Gone Girl which was pretty dull and full of horrible characters but don't except anything more than just an alright film with a good idea, great actors and a very awful ending (6.4/10)

Unfortunately, White Bird in a Blizzard is just plain boring. There are only so many times you can see teenagers talking about and having sex. The story is one dimensional at best, but what makes this hard to watch is just the monotone, depressing state this movie draws you into. Whilst it's task is to show the life change when a parent walks out on you, it just seems to try too hard for emotions to flow, giving it an ambitious feel which ultimately doesn't work. I wish I could have liked this film, but there are too many issues which plague the story and directing. Nothing feels engaging enough for you to understand the characters and everything feels dry and boring with no excitingly entertaining progression in sight. To be honest, I wish I could erase everything about this movie from my mind, all except the gratuitous nudity which, sadly, is its only redeeming factor.

It's 1988. Seventeen year old Kat Connors (Shailene Woodley) has a seemingly perfect suburban life from the outside. However, her mother Eve (Eva Green) had grown tired of her father Brock (Christopher Meloni) over the years. She belittles him all the time and then she vanishes. Detective Scieziesciez (Thomas Jane) investigates but there are no leads. Kat seeks affections from her dumb boyfriend Phil from across the street and help from her psychiatrist Dr. Thaler (Angela Bassett).This is part coming-of-age movie and part mystery. The most important word is part. This is partly good. Shailene Woodley is a winning actress and she keeps interest in the movie. The mystery part is pushed aside for the first hour and then it lays an obvious big clue right in the face of the audience. For the first hour, I keep waiting for Kat to start looking into the mystery but she does everything except that. After the big giant clue, the story stops to be a mystery and I'm waiting for Kat to see the big flashing neon sign. It's a complete fail as a mystery but Shailene is still a compelling actress. There are a couple of twists at the end but it's a bit too late.