ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Suman Roberson It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Sabah Hensley This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

SnoopyStyle The gardener Fred Phillips finds a discomposed body in the ice house of an estate where Diana Goode, Anne Cattrell and Phoebe Maybury are living. Molly Phillips is the cook. D.C.I. Walsh is investigating with his younger partner D.S. McLoughlin (Daniel Craig). Walsh suspects Maybury right away after investigating her husband's disappearance ten years previously. Goode and Cattrell rent separate wings of the estate. Many in the small town spread rumors of the women's lesbianism.It's a three hour 2-parter and there is probably enough material for one and half hour. The acting is solid and there is a younger Daniel Craig earning his stripes. The movie needs to be quicker but the long running really gets into the way. The start is pretty good but it slowly runs out of steam. The solid acting struggles to maintain interest.

Neil Welch The new UK Drama channel dusts off this 3 parter from 17 years ago and...The story unfolds so slowly that one loses not so much interest as the will to live. The direction is plodding, obvious and boring - there are enough knowing looks between characters to fill a warehouse even before the audience is aware of anything for there to be knowing looks about. The acting is OK, although it should be noted that Daniel Craig can't do a Scots accent to save his life. It may have been OK at half the length, but I doubt it.For the health Nazis among us, there are vast amounts of drinking and, especially, smoking.I was not impressed at all.

LouE15 "The Ice House" was I think the first, and easily the best, of the crime thrillers that shot author Minette Walters to bestseller status in Britain. Defined by strong characterisation and a sharp, well paced story, it has weathered well. The film made of the book is easily as good if not better, capitalising on strong acting, particularly Daniel Craig in the ascendant as an unlikely, wonderfully flawed hero. The excellent supporting cast fleshes out the background and helps draw you in to a believable world. Essentially the film contains all the elements I love in entertainment: well-defined human characters interacting with intelligent dialogue; crime, drama, a thread of romance shaded with darkness. A cracking film, well worth a watch. You never know – might even convert some of those Craig-as-Bond haters

c.j.ganter 'The Ice House' is a truly remarkable venture, both in terms of plot and of characterization. As far as the slowly unfolding plot is concerned, the film is second to hardly any of the British (TV) mysteries of recent years such as Inspector Morse etc. The main characters are portrayed in a convincing yet cinematically appropriate way. Right from the very beginning the film psychologically probes the dark sides of human nature keeping the viewer in tight suspense right to the very end. Worth seeing !