Wind Chill

Hmm. This is a difficult call. Really, there’s only a single setting—a car on the side of a desolate road in the middle of winter—and only two characters. I give it an “A” for the attempt to drive the story with the dialogue and eerie ambience. I also appreciated that the character development of the male/driver (Holmes), who might be a stalker/murderer or a misguided and socially inept victim. But that just wasn’t enough to carry a 90 minute film, and neither were the conversations between that character and the heroine (Blunt). The effects, or what there were of effects, in this more-suitably-categorized-as-drama dud, were lacking. In the end, it’s only a 5 outta 10.