- 9
It's amazing what you can do with a low budget, an expansive imagination and a smooth-moving camera.
—Manohla Dargis New York Times
- 9
...this is a horror movie with many inconvenient truths to tell about the ways in which we are willingly destroying our planet. Call it the first green horror picture, punctuated by ample doses of red. Oh, and it's also scary as fuck.
—Scott Foundas LA Weekly
- 8
...it's the imaginative background, and Fessenden's talent at insinuating it into the action, that counts -- and unnerves -- in this most chilling of global-warming movies.
—Nathan Lee Village Voice
- 8
—Aaron Hillis Premiere
- 7
There are undeniable weaknesses in the film, the most problematic of which is that the computer generated antagonists that show up late in the story aren't all that scary. Yet Fessenden makes it easy to forgive the film's flaws when he moves beyond the microcosm of the ice station to imply larger, more terrifying implications of the movie's core issues for the world at large.
—Jim Hemphill Reel
- 7
While the slow buildup won't bowl 'em over at suburban multiplexes, the film should please Fessenden's loyal followers and win him new ones.
—V. A. Musetto New York Post
- 7
The director's chilling use of widescreen recalls Carpenter and, in a few creepy hallway shots and the visual association of white with malevolent evil, Kubrick too...
—Nick Schager Slant Magazine
- 7
...quietly unnerving...
—Maitland McDonagh TV Guide
- 7
...bears all the hallmarks of an ever-popular genre that has always pitted science, technology and reason against emotion, awe and nature.
—Carina Chocano Los Angeles Times
- 7
It's a horror film that sneaks up on you with an effectively unsettling and brooding atmosphere before unleashing an apocalyptic fury.
—Chris Barsanti filmcritic.com
- 7
For everyone else, it's closer to an atmospheric act of recycling.
—Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly
- 5
The Last Winter's heart is in the right place, but it isn't pumping any blood.
—Noel Murray Onion AV Club