Cold Weather (2010) NYT Critics' Pick

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Cris Lankenau, left, as Doug, and Robyn Rikoon as Rachel, his former girlfriend, in “Cold Weather.”
Between the Lines of Daily Living, Connecting the Dots That Matter
By MANOHLA DARGIS
Published: February 3, 2011

Low-key and lovely, the independent movie “Cold Weather” opens with a shot of raindrops clinging to a pane of glass, a fitting introduction for a movie about characters who are revealed gradually, as if through a glass — not darkly, but obliquely. With brooding, expressive digital photography, a rooted sense of place and characters that seem as real as the people next door, the director Aaron Katz has created a lived-in world that’s so intimate and familiar that even with the story’s unexpected turns, you might not initially see its art for its everydayness. More