The film has, written and directed by debutant Tennessean Courtney Hunt, a chilly flavour all its own, says Rob Mackie
This bleak low-budget thriller from a debut director about two desperate women smuggling people to survive should have won Melissa Leo an Oscar
The film is bold and uncliched, and though it might verge on melodrama, you really do want to find out what happens next, writes Peter Bradshaw
Two women driven by desperation get involved in people smuggling across the frozen St Lawrence river
After years of small-scale acclaim, Melissa Leo tells John Patterson how one Oscar nod changes everything
