"Winter's Bone" is an excellent film, heavy on atmosphere, drama, and tension. Newcomer Jennifer Lawrence shines in the lead role, playing Ree, a teenager desperately searching for her deadbeat dad. But her performance is outstripped by the raw humanity John Hawkes exudes as the character "Teardrop", Ree's uncle. Hawkes is truly awesome. I only wish that Ree's two younger siblings received more character development from the scriptwriter(s). As things stand, we sympathize for those two simply because they're young and helpless. It would have been nice if they were more than just sketches, if the writing could have given us more substantive reason to care about their fate.
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